Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-08-15
The Herald's Plan.

the New YORK Herald Tor the suDJugatlon
and enslavement of the South. We bring
it before our readers to convince them that
the object of our enemies is to crush u.s.
The arrangement for this pretty business is
very invitiugly laid out before the readers
of the Herald:
Congress has voted 100000 men and
$500, 600, 900 to carry out the war in which
the Government is embarked to put down
the great rebellion. There is nothing left
for us but to go through it; but the ques-
tion is, how can it be carried to speedy
termination for long, lauguishing war
would be destructive to every Interest,"
The plan, then, is to raise 100000 men iu-
stead of 10000, and to raise loan of
$500, 900, 900 instead of 5OO,000,oO The
defeat at Bull Run will make the war cost
US s100,000,000 more than would have
been necessary had not the foolish advance
on Richmond been made.
Under the organizing mind of Mcclellan,
let the 100000 men be sent to some twen-
ty or thirty camps of instruction, and after
being duly drilled and formed into corps
under the best officers, let 100000 be placed
on the line If the Potomac by next October,
and then let 100000 be sent down the
Mississippi, capturing all the cities on its
banks, including New Orleans. Then let
100000 more be sent by sea to operate in
sundry columns from the Atlantic coast,
capturing Charleston, Savannah, Mobile
and Pensacola. As nearly the whole fight
ing element of the South is now in Virgin.
ia, the cotton States would be rapidly con-
quered for the rebel army now in Virgin
ia could not go to their relief, with 100000
Union troops in their rear, on the banks of
the Potomac, ready to march after them,
taking Richmond on the way.
AS the slaves are mostly to be found in
the cotton States, these contraband goods
would become spoils of war, together with
all the real and personal estate of the Sc.
cessionists, in pursuance of the act recently
introduced into Congress con6scating all
the property of the rebels, houses, lands,
horses and negroes. The shareholders IN
the revolted States number about 300 ,O00.
Their slaves number about 5000, ,OOO.-
There are about 750, 900 poor whites, heads
of families, in those States, who have no
slaves and no interest in slavery. Let the
slaves be sold to them at S25 per head, the
price of live Yankee caught at sea by the
privateers Of Jefferson Davis-the terms to
be either cash or credit, to be redeemed in
cotton.
This sale would at once create majority
of Union men throughout the South, while
it would realize sum of seven hundred
and fifty millious of dollars, which would
pay the expenses of the war. Then the
cotton of the present shareholders, which
will be found accumulated at the seaports
and other points, must also be seized and
sold to England and France. The proceeds
of this sale would give rs handsome pro-
ft on the war, filling the Treasury and
saving our Government the necessity of
taxation by revenue, or in any other shape,
for years to come. Thus would the war be
finished, peace established and the Union
restored. And all this may be done before
the 1st of May, 1862. If it be not done,
it will only be because we have not the
right kind of men to comprehend the plan
and carry out the programme.