Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1861-08-24
yreu he Nss 70 Herald Of February IS
INVASION or TIE BOUTH AND INVASION OF THE
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the svowed design Of Jefferson LAWS to carry the var
into the North, which, # there be war; would undoubt
eddy be bis game. The Southern Confederate States will
not invade the North unless the North sand ships Of
and arme3 TO them; aud In that the bor
der slave States and all their population man. will
be with the cotton States who will be to Ma
son and DiIons line
SO desplcabe In warllke character does the Tribune
assume Southern TO be that IL says "a small feet Of
ssagoiog steamers and army Of twenty thousand or
thirty thousand men, concentrated at New York would
keep the entire South 10 perpetual check and not man
would DO sent poruhward from any of the Atlantic or
Gulf states" Toe philosophy Of this hazardous opinion
10 explained to be that mo nation SAFE with an ac'
oessibe sesbosrd can venture on On nsive operators
q ysinst enemy who commands the sea-" This might
hold good In the csse If an island, such as Great
Britain whose wooden walls alone have saved her from
conquest BY France but sup England instead of be-
lag pated from France by Dover Straits, were part oil
tue Continent OF Europe, and were divided from her
negbbor by stream or o. an imaginary geographical
ine how long couli "per6dous Albion" be saved from
lvasoh b, the that she held command Of the sea
And of what avail would be the enems command Of the
sea { b own land was conquered? The command Of
the lind much better than the command Of the un-
der such circumstances and this just the case With
the Sou bern States 0a small forces can be transport
ed to distance by seattle operations are edout the
cost epo nous al the disemba k.ion Always at end
vi peril while b. land, VII there noun ain
carriers or impossible rivers chains Of well manned
oiressss In way, and especially where there are rs
roads, large army Of 100000 men might be suddenly
concentra ed at any given point on the frontier aid oy
forced marches advance upon and conquer toe large aud
populous but unfortHed otes OF the North, where the
invaders could 6nd ample provisions spois and NUM-
lions Of war; whereas, according TO the statements
OF the republican ,urnsls 40 invading Nor hern
army could lad no sustensnce at the Starving" south,
AID mus, perish If apy accident should IL of from is
osse of Operations or stop its supplies But no matter
how well provsoned II might be- there would be plenty
of troots At the South take OF L. Suppose the
twenty or Thirty thousand SAT y landed, how far would
thew be able penetrate into the country before being
out of from their shps by lar army Ia their rear
A thew would 20 to the utl 70 enforce the law they
coui Dot lay the country or sef' provs ons or
lighter peaceful ex OF the Ured States. They
could only deal with "rebel with arms 10 their hands
H. therefore, the republicans can oily scraPe up I've
sruy of 20 900 men, they would act . wiser part by
keeng IL New York city for Its Defence than BY send
ing il, as iolorn hope 70 the Sou,h never TO come
back. Now the invading Southern army would not be
under the same obi atoms TO spect persons or pro-
perry at the North for having thrown on allegiance 20
he Uniou they might all at the North rs iortisn
fles and waste the lard by fire aud sword.
On the other and reg .rd the South sparse pop
ulaton ID u large Of c,un ry 's raj her an al
ysntsge 10 the Invaded. Til, the In the war
Of La Vendee, which gave the French Directory such
troub at the i'm. Of the Revolution. An army has 10
raw, ia such cases, immsn anoss without accom-
ole to surprise Il tn circumstance that 40 favor
ID the colonies when invaded by Grest Besia in the
Ravo uionary She had then command Ut he sea.
WHAT did she achieve! In the late war with Ri sia.
the Allied fleets swept the sea; but Nht did that effect
on land! 10 the invasion Of thickly popu,sed district
with luge army, the orquest Is greatly facilitate 1t
i contains large cities without fortified walls for IL is
proved by experience that all the population Who are
not soldiers ny In the way, and hndrance TO the
Defence Hence III, panic Ia England in recent years
about ahe capture OF London by the French, when IL
eie an invading force IN ght be successfully land
cd on the coast.
Pea her bed" soldiers and amateurs such our mill
tia in great part consists Of would he Of very little use in
real war and hard fghtng. IL Is evident to every OBJ
server Notwithstanding the numbers OF our militia on
paper and even the occasional parade OF uniformed and
partially drilled regiments at the North that we are not
now 4 military people, whatever we may have been IN
o her days The progress Of commerce and trade al
manufactures while tending TO wealth and luxury along
the Northern sesboad tends also 70 render US eemi-
nate and unsuted for The degeneracy Of the Ene'
llsh population II 10 point. Ia the Crmean var
the recruits raised IA the manufacturing towns were
from their appearance the laughing stock Of the British
or S. They persisted by thousands from the hardship,
Of war, without shot from the enemy. The principal
part Of the fighting done by the French, who &c
cordingy received all the glory. Here ofore, England
obtained her fighting men from Irea aud tho High
lands Scotland But in recent years, from the de-
population Of ireland by famine and emigration, and
owing to the high prices OF labor aud the fact Of
those districts OF Scotland whish produced the troops
which won the field Of Waterloo being cleared OF hum'n
hsb an,s la order TO make room for the vast sheep
~axs and OF the Dutchees of Sutherland sad
other nobl, philsnthrop,s fhos bfneyoleNce seeks all
other objects creeping whitt men, Great Britain has 's
her salwor hardy warriors, aud now, instead Of first
ranks only second third among the Powers OF Europe
factory pop llation or mechancs or clerks or mer-
chants or those employed constantly within doors,
,ha IF If htch mi Sa nj
great numbers for example, in the case OF the Chinese
10 not always shos mill airy strength which depends
rather on the qaslry Of the than their count.
Tast the North has greatly degeuer tied in military
pro sess while the South has greatly advanced is demon
..rsted BY the ibconGespe facts aud figures TO be found
In the official returns Of the War Department Ia the
war OF the Revolution Massachusetts, then glorious Mas
sscbusets contributed Ssn double the mum ''r Of
men furnished By any other colony. She gave Ss2O6
soldiers which cannot be altogether accounted for by
the fac that the brunt Of the WAS a. st on her own
soil Connecticut ,piisd SO Isl; NeS H,mpshirs IA
49, Rhode md 10 0iT wnile Ns~ Yrk ave 81 600;
Ne Jersey, Is 7i0 Pennsylvania, SO 1873; Vrgi 50.
600; Maryland Is 900 There we're theu no sn sla'er,
atss All the co,ouies slaveholdinR. and sl did
WE'LL Now let Us come 10 the war Of lsl2-l5 BY the
Northern stes then furnihed troops which served
for three mon be- 50 552 by the Southern States 9 1872
making msority OF So 500 in favor OF the South How
many did Massachusetts, furnish in this RI Onv Ito;
while Hampshire gave s97 COnnec !cui ss7; Rhode
and 6S7; Vermont lSl-in al l62 i 80 than little
south Ceroiua which furnished 600 Tee Staes which
FUR isb most who served III that war we're: Viz
giLia, 50 OH; New York. So $685. Tennessee, "a sos
rpubc numbered 424 600 men, of whom the South inr-
nI.kei 2s7 900 more than double the number Of the
Ncrh, which only 1877 900.
How was il In tho MeIcan wary Massachusetts, fur.
uished l047, Of whom o0ly two were killed and none
woaI ded aud the rest of the New England States sent
nota msn, excepting poor Pierce OF Ne" hsmpsnr''
who was made President ndng on the field OF bat
tie No militia Of the North served 10 that war. Twas
tough. by volunteers consisting OF class of men Nho
will never fght against the Souh. The whole number
OF troops coubu ed bJ Ike Northern States was 2s Ooi
while the iave States furushed 4oeS0 or very near
double Now, as the Northern States have twice be
popua ion Of the Southern the South has four times as
m'py soldiers as the North in proportion TO the populA
ton. TIE fighting element OF the country with the tI
cepton Of New Vol city, Is chiefly 10 the South. Toe
southern population arc al fighting men from their
childhood. They Al 'ays armed with revolver, or
bowie knife, or rifle AS for the desperate expectation
that the negro slaves VIII prove element OF weakness TO
the South IL Is vain In all the OF Greco a1d Rome
with sther countries their slaves, though white mea,
never ievoted against their masters IL the n goes
had even the vii they would have the means or the
power Ga thecontrsry, they will prove grand source
Of strength forhey attend to the cotton fields the
general cultivation Of the soil and other labor, while the
whole Of the abe bodied whites devote themselves
to war. How tany abe-bodied men can the North
spare to snd Suth, Not Of every three the South
will be abe 10 Iend North. Vast Of the populs.
ton Of the Nothern ssa-bo,rd reduced practically
to the condition Of white ilsses, while . considerable
proportiouare sickly and very unfit for az army.
The Soul, therefore, Is perfectly able 10 maintain
the contest What she wants most Is q navy. But she
can build os 10 the Mississippi and meantime she can
hire h,et p-vs,eers did the colonies against Ens.
land in theasvoudonary war, which will do the com.
merce OF ID Northern States more Try than our war
ships can eer inaict on the Southern seaboard
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