Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-06-03

The two Armies Compared--The Ad-
vantage Gained by Removing the
war to VirginIa-Thnt the efFects
upon hcr Will be.
From the NY. Times.I
It Is now only six weeks since MIR. Lin
coin issued his proclamation calling for
volunteers for the defence of the Capital.
ne same act That led to this setP precipi-
tated Virginia into secession. This was cf-
fccted for the purpose of adding strength
| TO the movement which would, as it was
believe, render itinvincible, and to transfer
the seat of the wur from the cotton to the
TODD producing districts. The rebels clcc-
ted to make this State their battle-ground.
lie Government accepted the challenge
and, to-day, hns one hundred thousand
men either upon, or who are swiftly nd-
vancing towards the soil of this State. and
directed by the ablCst commander of his
time. The force is well equipped, nbund-
antly Supplied with munitions of war, and
sustained by the entire financial strength
OF the North. If it is not so thoroughly
trained MS the veterans that compose Euro
| pean armies, it will be opposed to troops.
who, whatever may he their personal cour-
age or endurance, are vastly inferior in
soldierly qualities TO those of the NORTH
With equal numbers it is discipline that
| wins, and this is the last quality of which
southern soldiers are capable. In the
slave States the whites, no matter how
poor, must have something TO mark the
wide difference between them and nm in.
ierior and degraded caste. This is person
al equality among themselves. 1t is the
negrO's business to obey, to take subor-
! dinHte position-uot the white mans
Hence their iucapaCity for that high deg &c
of discipline to which Northern soldiers
/ il.. -.
| nothing unmanly or degrading.
Such u force directed By Gen. Scott
and amply provided with everything me-
cessHry to efficient action, must he irresist-
tble 10 any which can be brought against
IT, Virginia was half lfsubdued before we
put man upon her soil. On the West
she has within her own borders n large
population which is as hostile to secession
and TO the action of the State Government
MS the people of New York or Ohio. On
every side she is cut off from market, and
must soon fall from the exhaustion which
our vigorous blockade will produce In
Fort Monroe and in our naval force, we
| exert greater power against her than we
could by an army of fifty thousand men.
Already has the blockade put up food TO
famine prices. Her munitions OF war
must soon be exhausted The strength
she might otherwise put forth must be, to
a grent extent, ncutralizcd by the presence
of II body of muinouS slaves, who, in the
seeding districts, nearly equal i'll number
of whites, while in nll the force of seces-
sion is greatly weakened by the presence of
largc numbers of loyal citizens.
In selecting Virginia as tbcir battle
ground the rebels committed crowming
/ blundeT- At Montgomery its very re-
mOtrncss would have secured 10 it sort
I nC f,r,, Il, =
/! ~ ii thousand miles, by the only practica-
Lle route, from Richmond. 1t is one of
the most nrduous duties to conduct war
so far removed from the base OF operations
Onr Government could hardly have touch
ed Montgomery for IL year or two; but Vir-
| ginia is not Two days sail from the great
centres of population at the North, New
| York and Philadelphia, and is penetrated
| by magnificent estunries, all of which We
/ command. We still traverse without mo-
| lestation, the whole course ofthe Potomac.
from its outlet to Washington. We could
not have wished the rebellion to take a
better place for the concentration Of our
strength, or more untenahle for defcnsc-
Had it chosen the extreme Southern
States, it would haze lad the most power
full of all Nuxiliarics-dist0nre from the
| North, and an insalubrious climate. Had
it taken the Southern prOiongHtiOn of the
! Alleghanies, it would have n position al
most Inaccessible 10 attack. But it has
chosen to risk all where it is really the
! weakest, and the North the strongest.i
We know that this view of the case CO.
incides with Gen. Scolt's opinion. He has
recently expressed belief that the war
would he concluded within year, unless
some complication should arise with for
eign Powers. He feels confident in his
4 Nloil ~ 10 ba1F tt,,t
when this is accomplished, the back of the
monster Is broken. The cotton growers
have an exalted idea of the power of this
State. In its destruction they will see
their own. No matter how extrnvagnut
the gnsconnade in which they may con-
time to indulge, they will feel that it is
all over with them; that further resistance
is hopeless, and that self-preservntiOn is
only to be found in submission.
We must succeed in Virginia, did We
exert no other power than our army upou
her soil. Bat the whole South is like II
garrison in a citadel, completely hemmel
in, and which must soon exhaustive ScantY
means it has boarded. In peace it is sus-
tRiucd by the production and expectation
of two or three staples. I:s whole industry
is employed upon these. Where would the
North be in a months time, with every
Ontlet. in every direction, completely clos
ed? 1t would be at the mercy of the
enemy that Could so bclcagucr it, although
more than any other people it is selE-sus-
taining-overfiowing with food and skilled
in every art. The Sonth produces nothing
but raw materials, which it cHnnot copverl
Into foTGis fitting for nse. The City ot
.'ew Orleans will suffer more from 4
laoRth's blockade than il taken possession
et II a military force. In our feet alone