New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-02-21
Invasion of the South and Invasion of the
NORTH.

NOItFEs
Under this significant ca pt0n the New York Her
| aid of the 18th publishes the fooWiag editorial
article, which we commend to the careful consider
alton of the Northern fanatics who desire or Aope
| for the coercion Of the seeding States:
The New York Tribune of yesterday laughs to
scorn the avowed design Of Jefferson Davis to
carry the war into the North, which, if there be
| war would undonbtedly be his game The South
| ern Confederate States will not invade the North
unless the North send ships of war and armies to
coerce them; and in that event the Doroer siaEe 81
States, and all their population to man, will be
with the cotton States, who will be sure to cross
| Mason and DiX0ns line.
! So despicabIe in warike character does the
| Trihnne assume Southern men to be, that it says
| s a small feet of seagoing steamers and an army
| of twenty thousand or thirty thousand men, CON
| centrated at New York, would keep the entIre
South in perpetual check, and not man Wout4 q m oe
| sent northward from any Of the Atlantic or Gull
| States.'' The philosophy of this hazardous opinion
is explained to be that no nation or State with an
accessible senbOard can venture on offensive opera
| ti0ns against an enemy who commands the sea"
This might hold good in tie case of an island, such
as Great Britain, whose wooden walls alone have
saved her from conquest by France but suppose
England, instead of being separated from france
by Dover Straits, were part OF the Continent OF Eu
rope, and were divided from her neghbor hy
stream or only an ina aginary gcographlca1 line, now
long could q pertidous Albion' be saved from lnVa.
sion by the fact that she held command OF the sea
And of what avail would be the enemy's COM
mand of the sea if his land was conquered
The command Of the land is much better than the
! command of the sea under such circumstances
and this is lust the case with the Southern States
Only small forces can be transported to dstanc(
by seattle operations are tedious, the cost enor
S nous and the Decentralization always attended WIZ
q ncril while by land, where there are no mountain
barriers ortimpassable rivers chains OF Well-mal
,, ned fortresses in the way, and especially Wher
there are railroads. a large army OF l00,oOO mel
a rlirht be suddenly concentrated at any given pOn
on The frontier and by forced marches advanc
uuon and conquer the large and populous but mn
~ fortified cities of the North, where the invader
# could find ample provaIonS, spolis ana muhitNh
~ Of war Whereas according to the statements Q
- the republican Journals, an Invading Northern arm
t could find no sustenance at the " starving South
must perish if any accident should cnt 1t oil froL
- its base of operations or stop its supplies.
5 But, no matter how well pro7isioned it might be
= there would he plenty OF troops at the South tt
| take care of it. Suppose the twenty or thIrf'
| thousand men safely landed, how far would they
be able to penetrate into the country before being
= cut off from their ships by larger army in tlle
= rear? As they would go to the South to enforce
q the laws" they could not lay waste the country
or seize provisions, or slaughter peaceful citizen
of the United States. They could only deal Will
)" rebels" with arms in their hands. If, therefore
d d the Republicans can only scrape up live army 0
S twenty thousand men, they would act wiser par
"a bv keeping it in New York city, for its defence
/ than sending as forlorn hope to the South, neve
to come back. Now, the invading Southern arm
" would not be under the same Obligations to respcc
| PlHl'NitJ
IA thrown off allegiance to the Union, they migl
treat all at the North as foreign oes and waste tn
?, land by fire and sword.
J On the other hand as regards the South, a spars
. population, with large area Of country, is rathe
10 an advantage to the invaded. This was the case
y the war of La Ncndee which gave the Frenc
u Directory such trouble at the time of the revolution
N An army has to travel in such cases. immense di:
tauces without accomplishing anything or seeing a
" enemy, and it is ever liable to surprise. 1t was h
ID circumstance that so favored the colonies when il
- Rri in thn w
She had then command OF the sea. What did sh
t. achieve? In the late war with Russia the Allie
lg fleets swept the sea; but what did they effect 0
st lnud? In the invasion of a thickly populated di
trict with Il large army the conquest is great
facilitated if it contains large cities without fort
~ fed walls, for it is proved by experience that a
~ the population who are not soldiers are only in tn
'iIs way, and hindrance to the defence. Hence tn
" panic in England in recent years about the captur
OF London BY the French whcn it was feared a
invading force might be successfully landed on til
r. coast.
he "Fcnthcl.hcd" soldiers and amateurs such a
G our militia in grout part consists Of, would be
tie very little use in real war and hard lighting. 1t
evident to every observer, notwithstanding IL
numbers of OFF militia on paper, and eVen the OF
n CasiOna parade Of uniformed and partially drllc
tT regiments ut the North that we are not now mil
~ tary people, whatever may have been in otht
DAYS. The progress OF commerce and trade, an
manufacturers while tending to wealth and luXur
along the Northern seaboard, tcnds also to rendC
h, us eTeminate and un5utcl tor war. The degenG
I'd ACy OF the English population Is a case IN point
IL the late CriMean war the recruits raised IN I'll
Is. manufacturing towns were, from their appearance
as the laughing stock of the British press They pc
ished by thousands from the hardship8 of wa
without Il shot from the enemy. The princlp
mart of the fighting was done by the French, WI
on acrordingy received all the glory.
m Heretofore Eugllnd obtained her fighting me
ol from ireland and the Highlands of Scotland. 81
in recent years, from the depopulatiOn of lrelar
by famine and emigration and owing to the his
las Drces of labor and to the fact of those distrC
ill of Scotland which produced the troops which W.
his the field of Waterloo, being cleared of human
IN. hahitants in order to make room for the va
lat shecpwnlks and deer parks of the Duchess
IL Sutherland and other noble phanthrOpists, who
beneyUlcnce seeks all other objects except
white men, Great Britain has lost her staWor
1o hardy warriors, and now, instead of first, ran
ho only second Or third among the Powers of Earol
ho A factory population, Or mechanics, or clerks,
nv merchants, or those employed constantly will
doors, are not the stuff of which good armies
made. So that great numbers, as, for example,
ON the case of the Chinese, do not always sht
nat military strength, which depends rather on t
be- quality of the men than on their count.
That the North has greatly degeAerated III m
tary prowpss, while the SOuIh has greatly yndvancf
- is demonstrated by the incoutestible facts and I
ICY ures to be found in the official returns OF the
sls' Department. In the war of the Revolution, Mass
nv chusetts then glorious Massachusetts, Gonrlbut
ny; more than double the number OF men iufnlsh
'nu by any other colony. She gave o2,206 sold!e
which cannot be altogether accounted for, by
fact that the brunt Of the war was at hrst on l
and own soil Connecticut supplied 39,75l; NJ
an, HamDshire l44l6; Rhode Island, l0,047; VIII
zed New York gave 81, ,CG0i New jersey l6,740; PEI