At the time we write it seems likely that the Border Slave States, with the exception of Delaware and Maryland, will make common cause with the rebels against the United States Government. Delaware alone, of the Border Slave States, evinces loyalty to the Union. In the Free States every man able to bear arms is at the service of the Government. By a law of Louisiana planters are obliged to keep on their plantations a sufficient force of white men to resists a negro insurrection.
Custom renders the same practice imperative in the other Slave States.
Thus, from the 7,657,395 whites of the rebellious States must be deducted a large body of adult males, who are required at home to defend the women and children from the negroes. It is with the balance only that the Government will have to deal. In modern warfare, however, success is won not so much by numbers as by money. The longest purse, in the long-run, infallibly wins the day. The comparative wealth of the two sections thus becomes a matter of the highest moment.