New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-10-05
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i The New York Herald announces, with q great
flourish of trumpets the arrival that city Of sew
ersl officers, late of Garibaldi's army, who have
come to this country to help the North. II also
says that these officers have made tender to the
Federal Government Of g upwards Of two thousand
veteran italian soldiers.nE
/ It seems to us that this is cacklng over very
small egg. Soldiers must be scarce indeed in New
York when such |" blow y is made over the
prospect of getting two thousand. ,
The North, it is safe to say, has more thar
twice as many effective fighting men as the South
aud this is the argument they always use wher
told that the South ia invincible. They point tri
nmphantls TO their superiority Of numbers, as i
that settled the question al once. The Scripture
dogma that the raceis not always to the swift, mo-
the battle to the strong, like other great Scripture
truths, they entirely overlook. If this war were Il
be decided by force of muscle the South would b,
already whipped, for the North can count NOR,
avefdupois of personal weight than We can, not
withstanding the general tenuity OF leg and alb
senee of ventral rotundity which distinguish ths
PEOPLE of that section. T5 as. !s.
But the fact IS now well known that the forces
put into the field are altogether out OF proportion
to the population of the two countries. We pub
iished yesterday a statement showing what New
England has done in the way Of contributing to
the army. Massachusetts,, which cast nearly two
hundred thousand votes at the Preside election
last year, hasnot sent as many men into the field
as Louisiana Vermont, with as many voters as
this State, has sent the magnificent number of five
regiments. New Hampshire, with nearly twice as
many voters as we have, has sent only four. These
States are the hot beds of Aboltionisn. These are
the fellows that are perpetaaliy crying 6 down
with the South Il, and crush out the rebellion y
but they only egg on others to the work, without
pitching IN themselves Fighting by proxy is the
ssple which suits your genuine Yankee, and there
fore IT is no wonder his soul is so much elated at
the prospect Of aid from abroad.
We see it also stated that they expect aregiment
from the Sandwich Islands. They ought to be
careful about this matter. The Sandwich Islanders
have an odd prejudice in favor of cannibalsm, and
make nothing of roasting and eating man for
breakfast. In the scarcity of food likely to occur
during the coming winter, they might turn upon,
their allies and make more destruction among them
than the Confederate bullets. 1t would be an af-t
feeting, and yet an interesting spectacle, to see
resimentof Hawaii making their matutinaI meal
upon Beeoher, Gheever, and the other fat, wellfed
and portIy preachers Of the Abolition churches.
This reception Of foreign soldiers into the Fede-
raj Army ID a confession that that army is of itself
Incompetent to perform the work before it. 1t is
an admission thai the twenty millions of the North
cannot anaided, whip the eight millions of the
South. 1t is another cry,of sshelp me- Cassius, or
sink The United States Minister at Turin, Mr.
Marsh, has induced these officers to come over
here, as the account in the Herald expressly states
Possibly, other representatives of Lincoln in for
eign countries have Instructions to the same effect
and are going around the European capitals beg
ging for men. Let them come. Neither "two
thousand Italian veterans, nor two hundred thous.
and, nor two hundred millions, will ever subdue
the proud spirit Of the South, or cause brave
pepple to acknowledge allegiance to hateful des-
potism. nm ii Il 500 ,s,sa -E
The three great powers of Western Europe have
proclaimed neutrality in this war, and with that
The South il content. We are able to fight our
own battles, without foreign aid, and we should
think the North ought to be willing todo the same
thing. Il, however, foreign nations, in this strug-
gle, choose to render assistance to twenty millions
ofpeople as against eight millions-if they prefer
to join the stronger side in numbers to attempt to
put down the weaker-it is their own business
but the South in the future will not be likely to
forget it. We have fought foreign mercenares
before, and We can do, it again. But the North,
were it not insensible Of shame, ought to feel
aeutely the confession Of its own cowardice and
involved in this eager seeking and
acceptance of outside assistance, to accomplish
hat which it 50 vauntinglyt proclaimed its power
70 aoaloue and unaided.y ~ +