The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-08-05

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J Means and the Power for an Over
whelming Campaign.
Within the last ten days there has been
very remarkable and encouraging change from
the gloomy condition of things at Washington
Immediately following the disastrous battle in
front of Manassas All apprehensions concern
ing the safety Of our federal capital are again
dismissed. The late feeling Of painful anxiety
has given way to sense of security, and our
loyal people, more inclined to congratulate
each other on our escape from great danger
than to mourn over an instructive defeat, are
preparing for we'll ordered, systematic, over
whelming and decisive campaign.
II has been admitted by the enemy, that with
their defeat at Manassas, the rebel cause would
have been lost beyond redemption. They had
accordingly strained every nerve, and had well
nigh exhausted the active fighting elements of
the reyolted States in their preparations for
desperate struggle in this first grand encounter.
They have secured the advantages and
the prestige Of an unexpected victory; and
yet, comparatively, they are weaker in
tho field to-day than they were month
ago. We have it from various intelligent
resources that the cream of tho warlike popu-
lation of our robellious Confederate States"
has already been drawn Off-that the rebel ar
mics Of two hundred and fifty thousand men
now in the field have left but scanty margin
for reinforoements, and that henceforth they
must be drawn almost exclusively from the
"poor whites" whose necessities place them in
opposition to slave labor and who, therefore,
feel very little interest in a war undertaken for
the exclusive object of an unmixed pro-slavery
despotism.
We know, TOO, from cloud Of witnesses, and
from the very nature Of things in the revolted
South, that the armies of Davis are extensively
subsisted by forced contributions, from day to
day, and that the rebel soldier if paid even
triaing instalment of his compensation, is paid
in shinplasters, which, at ruinous discount,
arc received as money among the Southern peo-
pie only upon compulsion. The Davis govern
ment has neither money nor revenues at home
nor credit abroad; the stock Of goods from
which its soldiers have been clothed mast now
be nearly eXhausted; While within the next
three months at least two hundred thomsand
Southern troops will require new outfit. We
apprchend, therefore, that O rigid blockade
which will eftectually cut OFF from the rebels
any Northern or European supplies OF woollen
fabrics and shoes, in exchange for cotton, will
almost of itself, by December next, be sufficient
to break up this whole Southern rebellion We
cannot imagine that the rebel soldier, without
pay and without clothing, will continue to adj
mirc his oppressive Southern cOnfederacy in the
midst Of the SHOWS and frosts of winter cam
paign.
On tho ether hand, our Congress has provided
the way and means not only for raising, but for
comfortably clothing and subsisting well APP
pointed and thoroughly equipped Union army
of half million of men. This army can be
raised and fully prepared for active operations
by the middle of October. 1t should be thus
made ready in conjunction with powerful
navy and numerous transports, for offensive in
roads along our Southern seaboard. Then, with
a column Of two hundred thousand, or of one
hundred aud fifty thousand men, moving south
ward from the Potomac and the Chesapeake
Bay, and with column Of one hundred and fifty
thousand moving down the Mississippi, we may
keep ahoat marine column of fifty thousand
men for seaboard enterprises at such points as
Charleston, Savannah and Mobile, and still hold
one hundred and fifty thousand men for garri-
son duty and for reserves. Thus, with single
decisive battle in Virginia, all tho border slave
States may be wheeled into line with the loyal
States of The North, and from Missouri Ken
lucky, Tennessee, Virginia and Maryland Il CO.
operative column Of another hundred thousand
Union volunteers may be added to our military
strength before December.
Reduced to this extremity, it will be no diff
cult matter to bring back the cotton States to
the blessings of the best government in the world
within very short time. In word, upon some
such plan as this we have indicated, we can and
we must put an end to this rebellion by the first
Of May. To permit the war to linger beyond
that date, and with ne definite idea of the return
of peace. we shall incur all the hazards of incu-
rablc divisions and hopeless anarchy North and
South. The navigation Of the Mississippi river
cannot be broken between two nationalities
for if we are to have Northern and Southern
cemiederacy, we shall have a Mississippi or
Western confederaey and a Pacific confedelscy,
and then we shall have the South Americansys-
tenn of petty military republics and epheneral
cbicftains in full blast.
To escape all these dreadful consequences
Of political divisions, perpetual wars and
endless anarchy, including perhaps, the bloody
servile scenes of ST. Domingo, our only ark of
safety is the Union. And an army of half million
of men, and an expenditure of five hundred mil
lions of dollars, will be small investment for this
great, humane and glorious object--the in
tcgritv of the Union" With the Union restored,
North and South, we shall be indemniied for all
this outlay thousand times over in the strength,
security prosperity and power which VIC shall
thus attain And, carefully limiting this war to
the Integrity Of the union,' We can bring it 10
glorious peace by the first of May,
Everything depends upon Mr.. Lincoln and
his Cabinet A shining light of their late party