Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-01-09
From the New York Post.
THE ORYTOF DESPAIR.

Our readers who took the Fourth Edition
of this paper last evening could not have
failed to read the remarkable. srtiCleH we
extracted from the Richmond Ss8tiRsl and
the Richmond Enquirer. They contain the
most distinct and unmistakabIe confession
of failure that has yet come from rehel-
dom. If it be true, moreover, that the
article in the Sentinel was written by JEFF
ferson Davis himself-as the Richmond
Examiner intimates-then it becomes still
more important and authoratiye.
These articles tell US, in almost SO many
words, that the Confederacy has sustained
so many reverses of late that tits no longs
er able to defend itself effectively, and
that it is time to look about for foreign
assistance. How deep this conviction OF
its impotence is, is shown by the fact that
these writer's are willing to purchase for
eign aid by the sacrifice of everything dis
tinctiVe in southern life. ''If France aud
England" says the Enquirer, twill enter
into treaty with these Confederate States,
recognising our nationality and guarantee
ing our independence upon the abolition OF
slavery in all these, states, rather than
continue the war, We should urge the
measure upon our readers. We believe
such q proposition would be favorably re-
ccived and acted upon by those nations,
and it ought to be, made to them" That
is, we will give up our independence,
adopt protectorate, aud abandon our
social system itself, to be saved from the
dominition Of the people of the North.
Two sentiments are stronger than all
others in the southern heart; the one is
the love of rule, the ambition to govern,
the sense of personal superiority, and the
other Is devotion to slavery, which has been
noftad, until mora than half
the people have really persuaded them
selves that 1t is q divine institution. Yet,
as deep seated as these sentiments are, we
here see their leading men proposing to
give up both in their utter despair of other
wise sustaining thetortunes of the Confed-
eracy. Rather than submit to the Yankees,
whom they have taught themselves to hate
with an. internal malice, they would go
back to the embraces of the nations ofthe
Old World. s'.5, s.'s-ss ,45 s.
Nor does this purpose proceed from
foolish pride alone; it is the only course
left to the leaders of the rebellion, Hay-
ing stirred up and conducted mostIneed-
less yet bloody civil war, they cannot re-
tire from it without acknowledging their
utter criminsIity.s.aHa Having for many years
alleged long list of grievances against
the Yankees, whom for the past four years
they have accused of every sort of atrocity,
they could notfnow. submit to them with.
out the most painful feelings of humilia-
ton. TO find "the spauielsY whom they
fused to talk of "whippiDg into obedience"
themselves holding the lash, is very sad
reverse to the picture, To see "mudsills,"
"greasy mechanical "Puritans" sway
| ing it in the very homes of the Chivalry is
anything but pleasant to the "highrtOned
gentlemen of the South. They must es-
cape that degradation at least, ,'either by go.
ing to Europe OF getting Europe to come
to them. A,repetition of the experience of
Mexico, an imperial court with multitude
of new. made dukes, earls, counts and bar
ons, would be the more delightful coutem-
plation, but if that cannot be had they will
migrate to South America or to the other
continent. ass5
But the masses of the southern people
will not be under The same necessity They
had little OF nothing to do in originating
the war, and may abandon it when they
please, without much loss of character.
Neither will they find il q severe disgrace
to come back under the laws of the Union,
in the making of which they once had q
hand. We do not believe that the fnhab-
itants Of Savannah feel themselves partic-
ularIy degraded in being restored TO all
the blessings of The Union. Sherman's
army has not appeared there as Conquef=
ing force, but as q liberating force. 1t has
enabled them to, throw 7afT the despotism
of Richmond, which Notwithstanding them
to death. They are once again free, and