Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-01-27

WERE our Union papers on this side the
line of warfare to indulge In such epithet-
ical abuse as characterizes the Southern
press, their readers would be generally dis
gusted, and the papers themselves would
lose much If not all of their influence
Such is the difference between the civilizs-
ton of the two sections. At Richmond the
fashion is to call names-to heap denunci.
alton sky high-to call people liars, vii.
lains, assessors, &C., and such abuse passes
for forcible writing. We acknowledge that
outside of this style there is great deal of
pith and strength 10 the rebel articles
The few editors remaining in rebellion are
live fellows and write with great deal of
dexteri.y, and are skilled in similes,
trophies, metaphors and parallels. Their
quotations are numerous aud we'll put in
for effect, and altogether their writing is
quite readable. But when we come to such
an outburst as the following from the Rich
mond Wing ofthe Goth, weseeiu it only fear,
suspicion and decentralization. The def"
auce smacks of stage passion and the cpl
thets are so affected and exaggerated as to
be only laughable. We fancy that the
Southern heart is not greatly fred by this
time by such unreasonable and desperate
denunciatiou. Like apowerful stimulant il
has been failing in It's effect through long
continued use. The article Is as follows
All the blood of the Revolution of l77e
was shed to establish the right of selt-gov-
ernment. The Revolution had no other
end, meaning il 1t did not establish thai
right that it was o ssuguinary farce; and
yet because We chose to exercise that right
we were declared rebels, aud numerous
herds of mercenaries, collected from all
quarters of the globe, were hurled against
US.
Four years of terrible, bsrbarous war
fare, of cruelty the most savage, and wick
edness the most wanton, have followed.
The Yankee has disclosed himself to US and
to the world. Our outraged women, our
homeless babes, our sons untimely slain,
our blackened homes, our leagues of desc"
lated land, our battered cities, our slaves
in arms against us, our prisoners murdered
in cold blood, or pining year after year in
Northern dungeons, all tell US what the
Yankee is at heart.
The whole world, with one voice, pro-
claim him disgrace to civilization. a
liar beyond all liars the earth has ever
known, blood thirsty, rapacious, insoleRt,
vain, malignant, mean and devilish. His
acts of confs cation are unrepealed on his
statute books, his cold and brutal threat OF
determination still hangs over US.
His flag is still set up as. an idol in his
pulpits, and his fanstical preachers still
breathe threatenings and slaughter. His
enormous and daily increasing debt is
unliquidated. His purpose to parcel out
our lands is still fixed. His invention to
rayaRe and despoil, to deluge ell before
him with blood, and to leave nothing be-
hind him but ashes, is still infexible.
For the day we may seem to relent, as in
Georgia, but his charity is more demoniacsl
than his anger; for be it known that when
We submit he can strip us at our leisure,
and without danger to his perfon. Yet we
are told in Congress we can get better
terms from the Yankees than from the Egg
lish or the French. Oh, shamei Oh, fol-
lyI What2 Believe in the Yankee now
Put faith in his promises now? Mon
strousI Why he could not, if he would,
make fair terms with us. His debt must
be paid, and he Is mad who thinks that
that debt will be paid out of the Yankee
pocket when Southern land, Southern cot;
ton, Southern tobacco, Southern rice and
Southern forests of live oak, of pitch, tar
! and turpentine, lie helpless at his mercy.
! No! Better the jaw of the tiger, the
fangs of the adder, the teeth of the shark
the sting of the scorpion, than the mercy
and the justice of the Yankee; for where
} there is neither truth nor humanity there
can be no mercy and justice.