Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1855-08-30
MILITARY CAPACITY OF THE
SOITTH

From the hlppant manner III which some OF
the Free Soil journals talk of an easy conquest
Of the South, in the event of civil war, We
conclude that they have not studied very at
tentively the resources or the history of this
section of the country. 1t does not follow that,
because the free States have majority of num-
bcrs, they can produce a majority of fighting
men. Their numbers will be required to till
their fields, whilst the South, in the event Of
war, need make no draft from its laboring popu-
lation. Moreover, it will possess unlimited
supplies of food, and have the additional ad-
vantage of fighting on its own ground Even
in an aggressive war, the South can in all pro-
liability bring more numerous army into the
North. These Free Soil braggarts haze for
gotten, if they ever studied, the annals of the
Mexican war, which proved that the South,
even in war of invasion, and that of distant
land, could out-number the more populous
North. To that war she gave not only her
due proportion of money, but much more than
her due proportion Of men, as will appear by
the following statement of the number of VOL
unteers:
From the SOuth-RegmentS.. tS................33
Battallons......... ".......l4
companies l2U
Total No. of volunteers from the South. As $40
From the North but 90 regiments were SENT
and the whole number Of volunteers was...23 0i8
Thus, in the Mexican war, the South furn-
ished nearly two volunteers to the North's
one. Bear in mind that the population of the
North is nearly two-thirds greater than that of
the South, and it will be seen that the South
in the Mexican war furnished more than three
times her due proportion of volunteers What
would she do in war upon her own soil-in
war for all that man holds dear-in such
war as Abolition would force upon the South?
Every male from the boy of twelve to the man
of seventy, would be soldier; literally and
truly, the whole population would be in arms.
Can the Free Sellers promise themselves much
fr"" such struggle?-Richmond Dispatch.
Ion,' the intelligent correspondent of the
Baltimore ,Snn, writes from Washington Dur
ing the present suspense of active operations
in the Crimea, we may calmly y contemplate the
aspects and the results of this great war-a war
that took the world by surprise-a war which
no statesman can account for or justify. As
to the results of this war, 1 wish to cite the
opinion of an eminent German physician, who
is in the Russian service, and has lately pull
lished in Berlin many curious and instructive
observations on the subject. I give nothing
more than his conclusion, to wit-that when
Sebastopol shall be taken, the Allies will not
be nearer to liberalization of their hopes than
before their conquest. IL was more than q
~ar. II IS he first phase Of an Historical
1poch' 1t is in this light that we are to view
the struggle. The war, terrible as it is, has
been just commenced That it will result in
the development Of popular strength and re-
publican principlesin Europe, is the belief and
the hope of all, except Of those who provoked
it, and now blindly conduct it.
aV" Fcllow-citizens." said stump orator,
we have the best country in the world and
The best Government. What people on the
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