Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-03-16


cient troops.i Hewtll see, from the esfbest
protests of some of the best Sonthern
statesmen, how reluctantly this measure
has been wrnng ont Of Congress by mil.
tary necessity! alone, and by his declaration
of that necessity. he undertakes, iud5e
a great responsibility; but having gotsthe
power, we trust he williuse It. with energy
and success. If he will but beat back'the
Yankee invasion theF country. will gladly
forgive any shock given to its traditidnSl
policy or social system: Let us be free of
our enemy, and let negro labor aud the
negro race find their level afterwards as
best they may.
wIGFALL MAKES ANoTHER BxrRAoRDIHARY
/ ePERCH. .,pE
From the Richmond senetinel, March O.
Senator Wigfall, who has been pursuing
very extraordinary and very reprehRnsi.
BILE course during the whole Of the present
| session of Congress, seemed inspired il his
speech Of Tuesday night by desiFe to
| surpsss all his previous offences agsibst
the public interests. His speech was yio,,
lent, uppatrioiic and censurable ihR the
highest degree devoted to the advocacy of
extreme fanciesi and'to the abuse ofsthose
who stood Infinitely higher than he III the
public confidence. he denounced the Ytr-
ginia Legislature as ''a one horse coneernn
(Where were our Senators that they hid no
word of rebuke?) denounced the press,
poueed out his bitterness upon the Pres.
I ident, end demanded that he and As VIes
PreSideHt should resign.
There is perhaps not patriot 10 the
land who. will not think that Mr.. Wtgfall
should himself take the advice he gives and
resign his seat in the Senate. Had he lone!
so at the beginning ofthe session. sSatj
aeal Ct time No6ld h9;se: been oti
body, which has been far n otse han W. ted /
II One: of tbetlast speeches which the writer!
heard in the old United States Senate was
from Mr., Wigtsll, in which he deied the
North aud almost invited them to the has
tie. Little did we then expect, when the
war shonld indeed come, Iosee him pursue!
the course which has made his further
| service during the session now about to-
close an evil and curse to his country
| Would that he would take pattern from that,
patriotic body of men who represent the
.sentimeht-and the manliuessS of aVirginis,
but whom he thinks it allowable to refer to-
with words of insult. Would that be would.
support, as he ought to- do, the efforts of
that eminent patriot and pure aud faithful.
public officer whom the people, With O.
unanimous choice, called to the Chief
Msgistracy.
We trust that the people and Legislature
of Texas are not unobservant of the freaks
of their Senator; and if he neither resigns
nor mends his. ways they will, in Justice to
themselves, TO the cause, aud to the sister
States, relieve him at the earliest moment
of the trust which be so lily discharges.
SOME OF THR REBEL STATES THREATENING
TO DESERT THE REBEL CAUSE.
From the Richmond Sentinel, March s.
hn =,
worse taste than to threaten the majority
with detection and ABANDONMENT unless
they shall yield their opinions to listless
and unenergetic minority, If, indeed, the
worst that is threatened should happeo the
detection of part would be q less evil
than the paralysis of the whole. But we
credit no such intimidations. I'VE have
great faith in the people, and we do not
dread the result of an appeal to them from
the quaking of the faint hearted and the
whipped, The time has come when the
brave and true men of the couutry every
where must cry aloud and not allow the
views aud wishes to be misconceived or
misrepresented.
| !, We thinkit would be WELT have fseqneut
conferences and consultations between the
authorities Bnd leading citiaens 81 the seve-
lral States. They would tend to keep up sym
lpathy and harmony among US, aud to pro-
mote salutary and lvirtuous rivalry. We
should like to see Virginia send now, as she
has sent 10 other days, deputation of
Eher frat SONS to Visit our !sisteT StsEeB; and
to proclaim to them that all is well in the
Old Dominion. In the early days of seces.
sion she received embassies from Sher
j Southern sister StStes, inviting heriLojoin
her fortunes with theirs; let her in her tur 4
now send to them to tell them that Virginia,
amid all her suferings, is still uncouquer-
| ed and true, apd to receive their assurances
that they win stand by her, aud with her,
through all. the fortunes Of ths changing
tight, aud match. blow with, blow, until
God shall crown our common struggled
We do not credit any threats or rumors OF
ldesertion. We are faithful to our sister
States; We copfde in their honor that they
will be faithful to ne. tzss.Gf
HENRY 4. WISE. DRAWS a PICTURE OF, FHH
.sasG y3sa5. a. sIfUAFl0A' $50
FfOmhfs speeehsto his brigade ard the Virginia
IEFl51 90 ItFa5i q aL6sIslGR1FS. iaT51
Northwestern Virginia has been left to
to the enemy, and it has seceded from Seces
sion. The want of ell means of defence at
Hatteras and Roanoke Island abandoned
the, garner of grain and the meathouse of
! ali Eastern North Carolina and Of the city
Of Norfolk aud the navy yard at GospoEt.--
The retreat from Manassas sacrificed pro-
visions and munitions Of war enough to
last .ayear's campaign. Theosudden and
surprising evacuation of Norfolk and the
blowing up of the Merrimac, abandoned
t Eastern Virginia, and stripped us sdll
. more of our main means of supply aud de.
E fence. The retreat from the York PENN
3 sula lost still more of provisions and muui-
. tions of war, aud exposed Riehmoud e
o the bloody, indecisiTS battles Of,ths sever
9 dsys. Doubtful orders and divided armiel
left Tennessee and Vieksburg both TO fal