Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-01-05
The Richmond Examiner on tho
Rebel Crisis and its Demands.

The Richmond Examiner on tho
Rebel Crisis and its Demands.
The Richmond Examiner OF the Both,
gives the following editorial, which is
strikiugly significant of the public temper
at the capital:
When, in any crisis of nations fate
men are seen to lose their heads aud to
look all around them in wild alarm, it is a
proof that they at least are subdued. If
the mass of their couutrymen had no more
presence of mind than they have, the doom
of all would be near at hand. We have
some such frightened counsellors in the
COnfederAcy at this moment, and their wild
outcries CRATE and jar dreadfully upon the
generally calm an d and resolute tone of the
| country. They do not help but hinder
! They resemble the sinking passengers in
the Tempest, to whom the botsWain had to
say, "You mar our labor: keep your cab
| ins you do assist the storm" One public
| journal eXhorts these Confederate States to
throw themselves back into the arms OF
England, France and Spain, the powers
which first planted colonies here; acknowl-
edge that we were young birds that had
broken the she'll too soon, to recaut all
those high words We have had in our mouths
for two or three generations, about liberty,
rights of man, and democracy, promise not
to do SO any more. To be sure the pcor
frightened creatures tell US to take this
course if we should prove unable to main.
tain our cause against our enemies: bnt to
utter the suggestion, above all to utter it
now, is to say too plainly, not if we should,
but that we have, proved ourselves unable TO
sustain ourselves. That's, that we are beat.
en-, overmatched, overwhelmed and ready to
sink. Come all ye good Christians and
receive US, and take US to yourselves as
your Vassals, and liege subjects foreverl
The blind panic of the writer makes him
even unable to see that neither England,
nor France, nor Spain, nor the three com.
biued, would touch US with the end of the
longest pole, if we once made SO helpless
On exhibition OF ourselves. Nations are
not Good Ssmaritans. If they see a
weaker brother fallen among thieves
wounded aud lying half dead, they do not
trouble themselves about his hard fall,do
not even pass by on the other side, but
explore his pockets, if per adventure there
be something lett to take away from him.
If neither England nor France will so much
as recognise us-not know even of our
exlstence-While we are vigorously buffet
ing and beating back gigantic invasion,
year after year, relying on our own powers
and good cause, and able also to offer
them advantageous alliances and recip.
rocal benefits, how would they receive
such an invitation as this, now that we are
sinki ing and perishing under the mighty
power OF the Yankee nation-now that
we are beaten and beggard? Will they
go to war for our redemption aud as we
have nothing else to offer, take our
selves and our children for vassals7 This
Will not do. The alternative is not offered
u.s. ns the panic stricken mortal imagtnes,
to be colonists under England and France.
or the subjects of the Yankees. Webave
not the choice. The very proposal sup.
gested to be made to these powers woDI5
prove that we are already subjugated
would be an admission that we had set mn
pretension We could not support, and pro.
Voked an enemy we could not fight and
they would cOldly bid US creep back into
the Union and stay there. Thew wnuld
understand that the United States. this
Confederacy subdued, must be the rnlino
power of the West. Then thew wonId he
glad to cement their friendship with onr
enemies by treating US with contumely. and
would SO endeRvor to make general treaty
settling the affairs Of America and giving
guarantees both to Mexico aud CANDIDA
One Is ashamed even to refute and rebuke
this mean suggestion, begotteu BY terror
pleasing
think We should never hear more of it. bnt
then there is another and not very dissimi.
lar in kind or in ori sin; another counsel.
Tor, who also, of course, takes for granted
that we are virtually conquered; who adj
Ylses US to make known to European nations
that we are ready to abolish slavery; that
slavery shall notbe permitted TO preiudics
our recognition as nation, and we are as.
sured that this would secure recognition
as nation, and we are assured that This
would secure recognition, aud, perhaps. in.
te1Hention. It's not alleged that England or
France, or the Government ofNeit6er, has
ever said or limited that they would make |
this bargain. &'''N0
The idea amounts, exactly, to an invita-
ton to England, to France, or to one of
them, to make war upon the Uni,sd
States, in order to save US from YANKEE
domination, and in return we are to ofFsr
them what the destruction of opr lsbor
empoWe rs, which would leave us of no nae
to them, or ourselves, or to anybody else
1t Is said, indeed, that this would be a |
great concession to the opinion of man.
klnu' which is auti-slavery, and the evil |
consequences would fall upon the unfor,n'
nate negro whom we should thus basal
abandon. Very well. Then il would be .
most Illuminating confession of defeat, We