Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-01-16
REBEL NEWS.

ASAHASA4SS 4SA-tss
GALL FOB A ooHvBNT1oNso OF THR REBEL
STATES TO REvoLur19sfEE TIE iREYOLU-
T1QN. IS
Since Secretary Seward and General
Grant have made ths, editorials of the
Richmond papers the source of informa:
ton and opinion for tsfiF. bulletins and
/ dispatches, the public viii not be surprised
to learn from the next GIFTED States papers
that dispatches have gonaSto Europe from
| Seward to announce the final cayiDg in of
/ the rebellion, as foreshadowed in o call
for conventions-of separate States and of
| all the States-to revolutionize tho revo-
luton, to depose Mr.. Davis, wipe out Con-
gress, appoint dictator, and, perhaps,
surrender to the enemy.
| This call for convention, which finds
expression for the first time in Virginia
newspaper, is by no means new thing;
that secession egg, incu6ated for many
months by submissionists in Georgia, and
lately introduced into Virginia, now for
the first time comes before the people OF
this State with the sole object of deposiug
the President and making General Lee
geueralissimo. This paper has already
expressed the earnest wish that the Presi-
dent and Congress would consult the pub.
lie good by eularging the authority of
General Lee and giving him the entire
control and management of military affairs.
But not even for this great object would
we be willing to see conveation even of
Virginia assembled. OF whom would it be
COMPOSED? General Leo cannot spare
from his army the members elect of the
Legislature, even during the season of
winter quarters, and before the convention
could assemble the season of active opera
tions would have commenced, and no SOL
dier or officer could be spared from the
army. That large body of noble and GAL
liant patriots would, therefore, be excluded.
Who, then, would compose the convention2
The discontented, desponding croakers
would soon have the army and the State
at the disadvantage of their fears and
hopes. Is the great western portion of
| Virginia to be excluded from that conven~
toni And if not, where is the constitu-
ency that could elect the the delegates2
We protest against any such convention.
The proposition is that of q wild, erratic
man, driven by passion, fear and prejudice
to the very verge of submission. Mr..
Seward may we'll represen t to his foreign
ministers the decline of resolution in this
people if he attaches any Importance to-
the convention call.
JEFF- DAVIS CARRYING THE E-CoSFBDERAor TO
PERDIrIoH AND The DEVIL.
From the Richmond Examiner, Jau. Q.
Men are asking one another, is there no
remedy? Is it fatal necessity that We
should sit still, with folded hands, aud see
the affairs of the contederacy going from
bad to worse, by reason os one constant
system of perverse passion and obstinacy.
of which we can all trace the course in the
past aud foresee the miserable endlngf II
| the Confederate Congress cannot or will
not eoustitutionally interpose to stop US
on this slopiDg descent to perdition, or it
any remonstrance, action or resolution OF
that Congress is sure to be constitutional
" and contemptuously bsf1ed and snubbed
by a yeto-what theu2 Have we enclosed
ourselves in an iron circle of necessity; out
of which egress in none? Have we put
ourselves into an inexorable piece of ma
chinery, wound up to go for six years GER
tain; and, the spring once touched, are we
bound to reyolye in it like blind mice,
though we know it is whirling us to the
Devil? Men, we say, are asking these
questions, and especially the question, is
there no remedy
| Yes: there is one remedy: conventions
of the several States; and to begin with
convention of Virginia, here in Richmond
All men say thai geuersl-in chief IS
| QeeQ6Q1 OUT EHuOu GuC law PAOPSSSAi -
ia assumed that Congress has not the pow
er TO make it. Well, convention has
full powers. The constitution Is inter-
posed. Well, conventions make constitu-
tions. Let US have q conventions con-
yeptiou of full powers-the convention of
VIRGINIA first of all. The Legislature of
VIRGINIA is in session-let itcRll conyen-
ton of the State.
We know why most persons, both IN
Virginia and elsewhere, have been reluc-
tant hitherto to say the word; it is because
the recommendations for calling conVen-
Sious, which have been lately msde in Two
States of the confederacy, were supposed
to contemplate, or scanned to contemplate,
a breach Of faith and base abandonment
of allies in the very crisis aud agony of
oar for our common independence; there
fore such suggestions were very properly
rebuked, both in Georgia and North Caro-
lima, and in the latter State the present
| Governor was carried triumphsntly into
Office expressly as the opponent and de-
nouncer of a State convention for any such
purpose. I..
poIiticaI tribunals the most potent express
sion of that sovereign independence Whlch
we are now banded together to assert II
some have invoked SconTenuouI but IN
vain, to offer an abjecs Submission 70 tne
enemy, it does not follow that conventions
themselves are condemned. They may be
invoked for good as well as for eVil-to
make successful war ss we'll as disgracetul
peace. And what's now proposed Is tnat
Virginia aud the other Confederate States
forthwith meet in separate State conyen- :.
tions-to be followed by convention OF
delegates from them all, in order to con- ~.
slider the present and past condnSI Oh 9ne
war, and to recommend some measures W
the central agency (which IS 'ne eEeatu,e se
aud triumphant success.
Ofcourse this proceeds upon the assump-
,ion that there is a very general discomfort
With the present administration of military
| - II Histrnst and-nnassiness about