The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-09-26
TH2 AMERICAN RFYoLCTloS.

! as I'll" Federal leaders do not look upon them
| The article Is an unusually able one, and will
| be- read with 40 ordinary interest:
| THg AMERICAN REFoLCTloS
| Ner" EhStand at this moment 10 announce
| 10 the world lis Intention to make the speed
| lest possible conquest OF France, or We're
! France 10 make the same declaration as to
| England, the world would laugh at the eyre
! SiGus folly that had inspired the design and
! prompted the boast. The world would grant
/ that, supi'0slng either people to be Infatuated
| enough, ana obstinate enough, il conId infiict
| enormous ami lrrcpara bic injuries on the
other. bat only at the cost OF equal injuries To
| ltSeIt IlIe bali once started, Fortune might
! beirltud this side or that; it might give to
| either great victories OF periods OF adyant ge
| II might even place one eventually over the
| head Of the other but still only at "a cost ut
| terly out OF proportion TO the value of the
miserable result Now, that il tie case OF the
| TWO tOnfeuerdcIes across the Atlantic. where.
| the surviving half OF eyete Ftdoaat fraion
| has undertaken to reduce tie other half to its
| Federal duties.
| We say that this is the case but before we
| proceed = step further, it i, necessary to OBJ
| serve that the case of the Northern Ampri-
cans Is IN some Important respects more diff
! cult tnan ours would be. They are not So
| united 1s we have always found ourselves in
! war. Their border States feel a divided al
! ltslance. They have 10 protect more than a
| thousand mics OF land frontier, incl uding one
| closely beiea1ured position surrounded hy
| foes OF ill-ai!ected adherents. Speaking tae
| same language aS their foe they have no
means CT excluding spies from their lines or
even Traitors from their ranks, They have 10
| make a standing army and a fleet. They have
| to learn tile ifSt elements OF tIptics and eva,
military discipline. They are without sol
| dIcIs, or officers To command snd 10 train
| them. Their revenue, at IS best. before III.
| WAY, was only lust sufficient TO meet the in
! teleSt OF the debt likely 10 be incurred by two
| years OF the War on AIS present scale, That
| revenue, however, is, To begin with, manned
by the loss OF the seceders and by the stop
! page OF traffic, that 1t is questionable
| whether il viii be possible 10 do more than
repair that loss by TIE taxes now i'm
! posed.
| American credit IS not so GOOD as Britisb
| nor IS the credit OF a Federal Union In FRO
| cess Of dissolution likely 10 be equal to that
| ota united people. Lastly wal, which changes
| Its character according to circumstances rs
| tablIsnes special rules OF probability Tor diff
| ttrcI.t localities. The one rule established
| by al American warfare is that the adyau-
taSe Is on the side OF defence. Our Offensive
! operations always failed against fortified DO
sitohs against brcastWGThs thrown IN IN a
| night; against forests fuIl OF an invisible foe
against neat, hunger, and thirst; against the
| ever imminent Hank attack against the Ger
| tainty that every step GImin ished the nunl-
! ber, the strength, and the munitions of onr
| men, and increased those of the enemy The
| present war might for its incidents be :,
chapter i'll our own dis tstrous wars on tbs,
| soil. The NOrtherutrs have advanced upon =
fortified position, but days march from
| Washington They have arrived at the point
| WI III Il tOrce already melting far short
OF the list on paper, beaten with heat hun
ger, thirst, and 4 long march, and surI,risr.i
on both Ianks by the sudden cutponr,ags Of
| railways. While this has ret.urfed ia Nir-
| giuid, almost within e.ait of Washington
| co.nmn OF $3.50 reder.hsts, advancing against
| a foe thrice their number, has met the same
fats, no doubt for much the same reas sons ~
| Springfield, four or five handret: miles 10 nh.
! wtst-9s if III order TO warn the N.y,nern
| States that what has happened - no accident
| no result ot ptcnilA. circumstances or Der
| sonal taiIrre, bat by inevitable rule
! There ls but one enterprise which rem rs
| COM pred 20 this ana that is the First Name
| leon gigantic, butintitultei, attempt uton
| RUSSIA. That WAS case OF :. sI.pat potiticaI
alliance as grand q: a Federal Union, com
lTlsl4g the beSa, RIG UcRlthItSt, and the most
pDinlouS part, and TIE best soldiers on tn,
Continent OF EUROPE, advancing in 10 Il terri
tory, The sparse alid poor Gopaiaiior ~ which
Sc1Itrly suLpaE7t tia! VI the invading H.;
Winter ntsnt 81 HE stpReQl3.e nsi.. hnt -
Tas ALEC tha apology ei ID. tremendous or Toat
No.. t,,-,. one viii atten pit to COM
| - --uins OF the feder3lists with those
Napoleon, he VIII find them tar inferior in
| every respect; while there is no DOUBT that
| Ike southern States are far more able 10 de-
| Tend every poll &, every portion, every line
in their territory, than the Russians were il
theirs. They have noun taiuous ranges in
stead OF sLeppes. they have a. population ac-
customed Ia carry arms, and only too dad TO
Use them; they have railways, and abundance
OF IoOd AMI other neceSs!ries OF war. They
r.
the social organization best adapted for war
The result is, THAI thus iilr they have shown
they can dispute every inch, and Keep the
invader always Under the apprehens o!
! beng either ontilanket or driven back upon
his ow: capital. Against All this II can on y
be said tliat the NoTthera States have tn pre-
poHdHranca in white men, III money and in
credit. These, indeed, would be important
consider: tlUns If the Southern States were
invading the Northern, and seriously prepar e
ing to drive every armed Nor herner Into the
ii. L&Xrt nee. They would be i'm por taut [
tins were the ordinary case Of two countrle
al wax with one another. Bat II is not The
Northtfners are engaged iii the reduction OF
the Southerners. Ihey are acting on the Of.
tens ive against 4 foe which, on lis own land
is content 10 act on the defer siYe, excepting
only that, should the opportunity occur il
would advance lis line OF defence 10 include
the capital. Experience shows that under
ordinary circumstances Il com parative small
population, with little money and means OF
war, Is sufficient for q very good defence
We in a condition to offer advice We
can advise the Northera States OF America
rs We can advise the legitimate princes ana
the desPotie courts of Eurupe Let the
statesmen at Washington only do what Eng
land has done before a hundred times and
what all Europe has dche is doing, and will
still 80. 1t Is not 'sOld WorId' advice 1t is
not OF the ieasen That Washington and Frank
lin felt 1t their mission to extirpate. 1t is the
very latest and newest lesson oil human at
| Etlrs; much newer than steam. the electric
telegraph, OF ritietl cannon Do the Northern
states really belong to the New World, or are
they only bit ot the Old World, with all its
pride, Its bigotry, and its tyranny, stranded
on the western shore of the Atlantic? The
advice we give them is what they have tau x h
us before, and we only say 10 them, as many
son may say to his father. "practiea what
you teach Let the Northern States ssaccept
| the SITUATION as wedid eighty years ago mp