The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-11 00:00:00

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the following informatien re,peciing General Lee's
army :—" heir ranks, like hose of our old rege-
From Baltimore we have, ur:..;er date the4leoll,
ments, had
.been fearfully thinned by the various
casualties of war, and many of them were reduced
from 1,000 to 500, and in some cases to 300 men.
The new conscripts were s3nt at once to fill up the
old regiments, and the consequence is that by this
time nearly all the old regiments are once more
restored to their original strength. This is espe-
cially the case with the regiments ectuposieg the
Confederate army near Winchester. In addition
to this means of recruiting his forces,
General Lee's
effective strength has been gradually and steadily
increased during the last four weeks by reinforce-
ments of old regiments which were not under his
orders at the battle of Antietam, but which since
that time have been drawn from other points. His
Effective strength a week ago to-day was fu?ly
130,000 troops. During, the last month the Confe-
derate Government has established four immense
depots of army supplies in Virginia, namely, at
Lynchburg, at Burkesville, at Gordonsville, and at
Staunton. The depots at Lynchburg and Berkts-
!guile were used for the storage of bales of blankets,
woollen clothing, and other articles of that descrip-
tion,
which, being of foreign manufacture, must, of
blockade. In these storehouses, too, are immense
a course,uan ti
oats, brought from Kentucky and Tennessee.
Several of the large buildings formerly used for
tobacco warehouses ere now entirely filled with
these commodities. The depots at Gordonsville
and Staunton also contain smaller quantities of
have been brought in vessels that ran the
ties of salted meat, flour, beans, corn, and
these articles, but they are principally used
for the storage of the grain, fruit, and other produc-
tions of the rich and fertile Shenandoah valley,
which have been pouring into them during the last
six weeks. At these places, also, there are immense
herds of cattle,
which have been collected in the
valley. The valley, however, has been by no means
drained of its productions. At Staunton, George-
town, Furleytown, Harrisburg, and at several other
places, the names of which I forget, there are
smaller depots of supplies of the more -perishable
articles, which are forwarded to the army near
Winchester, as they are needed. The engineer de-
partment of the Confederate army has been actively
employed for a month past in improving the roads
leading from Staunton,Gordonsville, and Culpepper,
to Winchester. There are no sick or wounded
soldiers in any of General Lee's camps. All such
were sent South as soon as they became disabled.
Since the battle of Antietam hundreds of them have
been restored to health and have rejoined their
regiments, but there are still several thousands at
the great hospital at Charlottesville. It is stated
that there will be no lack of blankets or of com-
fortable clothing this winter in the Confederate
army, and that all of General Lee's soldier either
have or are receiving these articles."

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These tables are falla-
cious: cious: Every acre in the free states '
gained sub-
stantial value on the 22d of September. The cause
of disunion and war has been reached, and begun
to be removed. Every man's house, lot and garden,
are relieved of the malaria which the purest winds
and the strongest sunshine could not penetrate and
purge. The territory of the Union shines to-day
with a lustre which every European emigrant can
discern from far ; a sign of inmost security and per-
manence. Is it feared that taxes will check immi-
gration ? That depends on what the taxes are spent
for. If they go to fill up this yawning Dismal
Swamp, which engulphed armies and populations,
and created plague and neutralised hitherto all the
vast capabilities of this continent—then this taxa-
tion, which makes the land wholesome and habi-
table, and will draw all men unto it, is the best in-
vestment in which the property holder ever lodged
his earnings. Whilst we have pointed out the oppor-
tuneness of the proclamation, it remains to be said
that the President had no choice. He might look
wistfully for what variety of courses lay open to
him; every line but one was closed up with fire. This
one, too, bristled with danger, but through it was
the sole safety. The measure he has adopted was im-
perative. It, is wonderful to see the unseasonable
senility of what is called the peace party, through all
its masks, blinding their eyes to the main features of
the war, namely, its inevitableness. The war
existed long before the cannonade of Sumter, and
could not be postponed. It might have begun
otherwise or elsewhere, but war was in the minds
and bones of the combatants, it was written on the
iron leaf, and you might as easily dodge gravita-
tion. If we had consented to a peaceable secession
of the rebels, the divided sentiment of the border
states made peaceable secession impossible, the in-
satiable temper of the South made it impossible,
and the slaves on the border, wherever it might be,
were an incessant fuel to rekindle the fire. Give
the Confederacy New Orleans, Charleston, and
Richmond, and they would have demanded St.
Louis and Baltimore. Give them these, and they
would have insisted on Washington. Give them
Washington, and they would have assumed the
army and navy, and, through these, Philadelphia,
New York, and Boston. It looks as if the battle-
field would have been at least as large in that event
as it is now. The war was formidable, but could
notbe avoided. The war was and is an immense mis-
chief, but brought with it the immense benefit
of drawing a line, and rallying the free states to
fix it impassably—preventing the whole force of
Southern connection and influence throughout the
North from distracting every city with endless con-
fusion, detaching that force and reducing it to hand-
fuls, and, in progress of hostilities, disinfecting us of
our habitual proclivity, through the affection of
trade and the traditions of the democratic party to
follow Southern leading. These necessities which
have dictated the conduct of the Federal Government
are overlooked, especially by our foreign critics.
The popular statement of the opponents of the war
abroad is the impossibility of our success. 'lf you
could add,' say they, to your strength the whole
army of England, of Fra'nce, and of Austria, you
could not coerce 8,000,000 of people to come under
this government against their will.' This is an odd
thing for an Englishman, a Frenchman, or an Aus-
trian to say, who remembers the Europe of the last
70 years,—the condition of Italy, until 1859—0 f
Poland, since 1793—0 f France, of French Algiers—
of British Ireland and British India. But granting
the truth, rightly read, of the historical aphorism,
that the people always conquer,' it is to be noted
that, in Southern states, the the tenure of land and
the local laws, with slavery, give the social system
not a democratic, but an aristocratic complexion;
and those states have shown every year a more
hostile and aggressive temper, until the instinct of
self-preservation forced us into the war. And the
aim of the war on our part is indicated by the aim
of the President's proclamation, namely, to break
up the false combination of Southern society, to
destroy the piratic feature in it which makes it our
enemy only as it is the enemy of the human race,
and so allow its reconstruction on a just and health-
ful basis. Then new affinities will act, the old re-
pulsions will cease, and the cause of war being re-
moved, nature and trade may be trusted to establish a
lasting peace. Wethink we cannot overtake the wis-
dom and benefit of this act of the government. The
malignant cry of the secession press within the free
states, and the recent action of the Confederate Con-
gress, are decisive as to its efficiency and correctness
of aim. Not less so is the silent joy which has
greeted it in all generous hearts, and the new hope
it has breathed into the world. It was well to de-
lay the steamers at the wharves until this edict
could be put on board. It will be an insurance to
the ship as it goes plunging through the sea with
glad tidings to all people. Happy are the young
who find the pestilence cleansed out of the earth,
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leaving open to them an honest career. Happy
they deparhe
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old, who see nature purified before
back to this
Do not let the dying die : hold them
world, until you have charged their ear and heart
societies, an-
with this message to other spirituallanet.
nouncing the amelioration of our p
Incertainties now crown themselves assured,
And Peace proclaims olives of endless age.
race which
Meantime that ill-fated, much injured
the proclamation respects somewhat of the
will lose
dejection sculptured for
the w ages
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ling
of their plaintive
tenance, uttered in
benevolent, joyous, docile,
music—a race naturally
miseries sprang from
whose very
industrious, and usefulness, which in a more
talent for
their great
moral age wi.l not only defend their independence,
-ill give them a rank among nations."