Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-10-10
A Striking Contrast.


 The following article which appeared Tn the New York Herald of the 10th of February iast,is in striking contrast with the course pursued by that ;oprnal at present At that time the mob had not made & demonstration against the Herald office. and it uttered sentiments winch 1t snnnosed to be entertained by the majority of inc neople of the North. The radicals, led on by the New York Tribune, triumphed, ahd the Herald had to change it's tactics. Subsequent events have vindicated many Of the positions assumed by the Herald in February: 'r
 From the New York Herald, February 15, lse1 INvAsIoNAoF THE SOUTH AND INVASION OF THE
 NORTH
 The New York Tribune of yesterday laughs to scorn the avowed determination of Jefferson Davis to carry the war into the North, which. Hthere be war, would undoubtedly be his game. The Southern Confederate States will not ln xade the North unless the North send ships of war and armies to coerce them; and III that event the border slave States, and all their pop nlation 10 a man. will be with the cotton States, who will be sure to cross Mason and Dixon's lne.
 So despcable in warlike character does the Tribune assume Southern men to be, that it says "a small feet of seagoing steamers and ah army of twenty thousand men, concentrated
 
 nerpetual check, and not would be sent northward from auy of the Atlantic or GuH States" The philosophy of thIs hazardous opin- ion is explained to be that !" no nation or State wi5b an accessible seaboard can venture on offensive operations against an enemy who com mauds the sea-" This might hold good In case .f an island. such Great Britlan, whose wooden walls alone have saved her from con ouest by France; but suppose England, instead of being separated from France by Dover Straits, were part of the Continent of Europe, and were divided from her neighbor by stream or only all imaginary geographical line, how long could ~ perfdious Aiboin" be saved from an invasion 7v the fact that she held command of the sea? asd of what avail would be the enefnys com r,a,.i o the sea if his own land was conquered? Tho co n,,, and ofthe land is much better than the
 pr,,a,,d q, the sea, under such circumstances
 d ,b;s "a inst the case with the Southern States. Only small forces can be transported to dls +.nfe by sea-the operations are tedious, the GsembarkatTon always attended with peril; while by land. where the.-e are no mountain bar rirrs or impossible rivers, or dralns of well manned fortresses in the wae, and especially where there are railroads, large army of loo- 900 men might be suddenly concentrated at any cdven point on tue frontier, and by forced marches advance upon and conquer the large
 
 u,here inc invaders could find ample provisions, enoils and munitions of war; whereas, according ta Abe statements of the republican journals, an invading Northern army could find no suste- ,,o,,oa af inc starving South and must per ;h f any accident should cut 1t of from its Ease of operations or stop its supplies But, no matter how well provsioned 1t might be there would be plenty of troops at the South to take care of it. Suppose the twenty or thirty thou sand safely landed, how far would they be able *o nenetrate into the country before being cut ,,e. from their ships by larger army Tn their rear9 As they would go to the South to zen force the law they could not lay waste the eonntrv or seize provisions, or slaughter peace f1l citizens of the United States. They could o-lr deal with rebels" with arms in their hands. If therefore, the republicans can only scrape up live army of 20,000 men, they would .act a wiser part by keeping it in New York city fy its defence than by sending it, as fororn hone to the South never to come back. Now, the invading Southern army would not be un- dertbe same obligations to respect persons or rronerty at the North: for, having thrown off , .peoiance to the Union, they might treat all at the North as foreign foes, and waste the land by !. fire and sword.
 OsAhe other hand, as regards the South, saarse population, with large area ot country, is rather an advantage 10 the lhValeu. HIS was ah5 case in the war of La Vendee, which gave Ee Preach Directory such trouble at the fiuH of the revolution. An army has to travel, in. such cases, immense distances without ac- comphshing anything or seeing an enemy, and it is eyer liable to surprise. It was this circum stance that so favored the colonies when invaded by Great Britain in the revolutionary war. She had thenss command of the sea. What did she achieve? In the late with Russia, the al lied fleets swept the seas; but what did that effect on land? In the invasion of thieky populated district, with a large army, the con- .,auest IS greatly facilitated fit contains large cities without fortified walls for it is proved by experience that all the population who are not s5faiers only in the way, and hindrance to the defence Hence the panic in England in recent years about the capture of London by the French, when 1t was feared an invading force might be successfully landed on the coast.
 :. Feather bed soldiers and amateurs such as ou, militia in grea'.part consists of, wol id he of yer, little use in real hard fighting. It ;s evident to every observer, Notwithstanding ,be numbers of our militia on paper, and even .be occasional parade of uniformed and partial ,+ drilled regiments at the North, that we are 1.noT now a military people, whatever we may have bgen in other days. Tue progress of nommefce and trade and manufactures. while ,andiug to wealth and luxury along the Northern seaboard, tends also to render useffeminate and nnsuited for war. The degeneracy of the Erg- Tsh population is case in point. In the Cri- .,aan war the recruits raised in the msnufactu ring towns were, from their appearance, the