New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-05-19
victory would he the most damaging thing to the
Secessionist Confederscy.
MARITIME RESOURCES go ThH
nErggGERENTs.

Tho contest with the rebel States must b., to
some extent. a maritime war. IL is Interesting,
therefore. TO know from Trustworthy data the
strength Of The combatants in this department.
M better sources Of ascertaibing this can DO
consulted than the annual reports OF the Treasury.
They give the amount Of the enrolled licensed,
and registered tunnage Of each state, AID also
the number Of vessels built by each during the
current year. From the statistics in q recent re-
mort. il appears that the whole enrolled, licensed,
and registered tuunage Of the tbITty-iOur States
was A, 955, 1886 tuDs. OF this amount the Free
States furnished a,l50970 tuns, and the Slave
States s07 .365 tuns. Ii will be remembered
that in this latter amount is included the
tunnage of the ports of Baltimore, New
Orleans. Charleston, Savannah, Mobile, and
Norfolk. the most hourishiog maritime depots in
tho South. The seven Cotton States-Sonth
Carolina, Georgia, Florida. Alabama, Missls-
siopi Louisiana, aud Texas-which led OF in this
rebellion, furnished only $4,000 tuns.
| If we deduct from the tunnoge Of the fifteen
Slave States, that of Delaware, Mar! land, and
Missouri, neither OF which is likely to be en-
Moved IN the service Of tho rebels, it leaves q
total fer the other twelve Slave States Of ooly
400, Oi3 tuns. 1t is against the shipping OF these
States that tho maritime resources Of tine loynI
ports of the Union will be arrayed Adding the
tunnage of Delaware, Maryland, and Missouri to
that Of the Free States, toe sum total Is a,46S,'
2g2 tuns, or nearly ten times that Of the rebels.
even including North Carolina, Tennessee md
Kentucky in this category.
Other comparisons will show the great dis
parity in the resources Of the respective behger-
ents. For example: Boston has az much tun-
mage as all the twelve rebel States. New.Bed-
! ford has one.third as much Buffalo one-fouTth
as much The little fishing town of Bath, IN
| Maine, of which the Palmettoes probably never
| heard, has Dearly one.hnlf as much. The three
| ports of Portland Wscasset, and Bath combined,
furnish more tuunage than oil the rebels, while
Maine as IA whole beats them GO per cent. The
tunnaee of the City Of New-YOrk is double that
of the fifteen Southern States, is four tunes
larger than that Of the seven Cotton States, ana
full three times as grent rs that OF The Twelve
States that may finally range themselves on The
side If treason and rebellion.
The disparity is quite as striking when we
learn the amount Of ship-buldng carried
on in the several States. The humber
Of enrolled licobsed, aud registered vessels butt,
with their aggregate tunDoge, in the year 1861,
in all the States, was ,43i and their tunnsge
amounted 20 81, sOi tuDs. OF these, 262, meas
uring a2,97a tuns, were built in the 10 Slave
were built in the Free States. Tic IL Rebel
States 1--WE exclude Delaware, Maryland aud
Missouri, for the reasons already stately butt
lis vessels Of all sizes, mostly small craft, meas
urng l6. 265 tuns. The seven Cotton State"
built | bark, 30 schoouers, and II sloors aud
boats measuring 3,U73 tuns. South Carolina,
| Georgia Alabama. and Miss'sipri. Which mr."
| clamorlng to issue letters Of marque 70 sweep
the seas Of Northern commerce, made out to
| build, in the aggregate, during the ~ months
under review, IL little water crait, whose COM
bined tunnage swelled 10 the alarming figure OF
$50 tuns, or about the measurement OF one
medum.sized bark
In regard to the important matter Of seamen,
the preponderaDce in favor Of the loyal States Is
still greater than in the item OF ships and tun'
mage. large majority of the Ofcers aud men
who sa the comparatively few vessels owned
below the Potomac are from the Free North.
The upper lakes furnish five times ne many sea-
men as all the South. New-England does even
more than this. The shipping sometimes lying in
single slip in tho City Of New-fork could
turn out 50 lors enough to man every vessel be-
longing TO the Cotton States, while those
occasionally seen riding in the East River could
sa all the craft owned in the twelve disloyal
States, with enough lett to capture all the priva-
teeIs which the JEFF. Davis oligarchy could fit out
ia twelvemOnth
Such ore the marine resources OF the bel
ligerents. With this preponderance ON the
side of the Union and with nearly three times
az many males between the ages of ~ and 40
for land service os the rebellious States, and
with fifty times as much money and credit to
furnish the snews Of the contest, no one can
well doubt to which sile victory will ultimately
incline.
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