Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1861-08-14
How TO End the War by Next May.

How to Enu the w ut W A'SN'
To the New York Herald belongs the cred
i. OF the following remarkable plan OF enc
inc The war bv the first nf noat May:
7, ,nrrass i,ns yCtri 5Cn, On0 men and slan,
COO, 900 to carry on. the war III wE'ch tnc
Government is embarked t"put down lh'
crcu. rebellion. There is nothing lett ipr nS
int to 90 through IL; tut Tie Question Is lao"
!. can be carried to srcc;!y termination, Tor
n long. languishing war wcala be destructive
IN every interest. The plan, then, is 10 raise
tao 600 men, instead Of 5OO,OoO, ana 10
ra,sc loan of $500, 100000, instead O: SOU
oOloaC. The defeat at Bull Run will MAKE
,ba war cost us $l03.OU9,O0O more than
w,u]d have been necessary had not the fool
;,b advance on Richmond been made.
l:nder the organizing mind of Mcclellan.
let the 100000 men be sent 20 some twenty
or thirty camps of instruction, and, after be-
inc duiy drilled and formed into corps, under
the hest officers, let 100000 be placed on the
In, of the Potomac by next October, and
tben let oOO, 900 be sent down the Mississippi,
,.ontrrinr all the cities on its banks, Including
New Orleans. Then let 100000 moro bc
sent by sea, to operate in suncry columns
from the Atlantic coast, capturing Charles
ton. Savannah, Mobile and Pensacola. a.
nearly the whole fighting elements OF the
South is now in Virginia. the cotton states
wou'd be rapidly conquered, for the rebel ar,
my bc;wecu Richmond and Manassas could
NOT 20 to their relef, with 100000 Cmoi;
,roo,Ts in their rear, on the banks of the Poto'
mac. ready TO march after them, taking R!ch'
monl on the way.
As tho slaves are mostly to be found in the
cotton States, these contraband goods would
be, one spols OF war, together with the rea
and personal estate of the secesslonlst:, IL
pursuance of the Act recently introduced int
Congress, confscating all the property OF Thu
rebe!s-hou>cs, lands, horses and negroes
Iu. shareholders in the rcvolted States mum.
ber about 100000. There are about $4,000
BOO, whites, heads Of families, in those States
who have no slaves, and no interest in slave
~, Let the slaves be sold to them st 81
Ter lead, the plico Of live Yankee Caught
ut sea by tho priyateers Of Jefferson Davis
tho terms TO be either cash or credit, to be re
deemed in cotton.
This sale would ct once create a majority
OF Union men throughout the South, while II
would realize sum Of seven hundred an"
{; .ty millions of dollars, which would pay tt
cyncuses of the war. Then the co:;o Of tie
present Shareholders, which will he found ac
cumrlated 1T the sea ports aid other points
must also be seized and sold TO England ant
France. The proceeds of this sale would g'r'
us 4 handsome prof. On the WAT, filing Tn
Tr,asary ard savin. 0uy Government thc re
c..ssilY of taxation by revenues, or in an.
other sharc. for gears to come. ] hns wou''
the war be finished. pcarc established .nd iL'
Union restored. And all tbis may be do
before tn: l.; of May, lSa2 II Ii hc no
done, it will only h.. bccal,r ;s.. have n1i III
ritht kind Of men to comprehend the rIan
to carry on. the programme.
Towhich the Richmond E.saEtiner respond
as follows:
The new plan for our su'juga;iun, populs
in the North since the revival of its spirits
has been duly explained By the New Iorl
IIeraLl in the above article.
Six hundred thousand men and six hun
drcd millions of dollars are 10 he found
where, unluckily, is not statcd-for this par
pose. Two hundred thousand Of these arc Il
descend the Mississippi to New Orleans, con
ouerng all on the way. Two Luadrcd :'as
and moro will remain on the Potomac 10 ;rai
Virginia in check. Two hundred th0usan'
others shall be transported by sea to the cot
ton States, which mav he easily conquered
And, when the work is dore, all slaves are Il
be confscated and sold at So per head L
pay the expenses OF the work and save tn
North from any further taxes for years t
come.
Such is the pleasant path before the Yam
kec ;.,e q; this hour. il reads like bill
fare from orc Of our KciInond :ulc!S, maxim!
the hungry mouth 10 water, but with ieN
d:Shc: c9rls spending to their ;a:natias title
- feast Of the Barmccidc.
'Thc-r Is. however, one Jr'nc :tlca in IL
,,-0;ect. i his vast ormy is Demanded bot!
by the Federal Government and tie Northern
p.cp!e. because they know with absoiat
certainty that il they cau1ot sahiuga:a til
Southern country within tie next cigii
months they must give over all hope of re
storing the Union.
l.,.r::.;t, cx genccs will Inevitably AID lie
ccssarly end this war b. the lst CT May
1852. 1t cannot 90 on further than that
Military operations, if marked by signal sue
cess or either side, will end it sooner. Blu
If the Southern country is not suhjugatcd
and If the Southern Government is not bro
ken By catastrophe of battle before tn
spring, two causes will compel the recognition
Of the Confede,acy and the cessation Of hos
tilitics.
They arr lst. The IN erfe.rncc of foreign
nations, whose stock OF cotton and tobacco
will then be entirely exhausted. ID Th,
votes of the Northern people themselves
cast against the war at the spring elections
and dictated by the terrible suffering and rl
in which the hostilities will have then pro
duccd among them.
There are those in the South SO little aly,
to the times as to suppose that this war cal
last seven years, because tho first revolution
did So. No such hallucination exists in th
minds of the Northern leaders. They know
their time to be short; they will put out al
their strength in that limited period, and
we will not do the same, we must succunb
Never did Government make wiser dc
mand of Congress than that of the Secre
tary of War for a ten per cent. levy OF tht
whole Southern white populatlon-an arm.
OF 100000 men-to meet the necessities o
this crisis.
I'll.