The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-05-13

NEW Ohh lie IL AID,
action Of our government ard the unariuous
uprising in its support Of all the people, of all
parties sll sects and all nationalities of the
powerful North. As ii is, Arkansas, Tennessee
and North Carolina, like Virginia, have been
turned over to the service of Jefferson Davis, as
to military dictator, in advance, and in anti
cipation of a ratifying popular VOTE while Mary
land, Kentucky and Missouri have been held in
check only because their sense of danger from
their geographical position is stronger than
their sympathies for the Confederate States"
Here we have, indeed, formidable rebel
lion. Eleven States leagued together under
common military dictator, and three others of
the most important border slave States gacil-
lating between open revolt and one. sided
neutrality. But against this gigantic revolu-
tionary league that desperate secession expert
ment of Fort Sumter has in thirty days deve-
loped Union enforcing power which is abso
lutely overwhelming in its capabilities. On
the 18th day of April last, after many months
of active preparation for war, in the seizure of
fede raj forts and magazines well stored IN ad-
vance by Mr. Buchanan's treacherous Cabinet
with artillery. small arms and munitions Of
war, and after the organization Of an extensive
chain of land forces, armed, equipped and
ready for action, the revolted States, in the
assault upon Sumter, gave the signal for
active hostlities. AT that time, too, so entirely
unprepared for war was our government that
had body of five or even three Thousand
men been adroitly precipitated upon Wash
ington, they might have captured the
city without difficulty, including the Pres-
dent and his Cabinet. We believe that, down
to the 10th of April, there were not over two
thousand reliable troops within the immediate
reach of General Scott, and they were of ne
cessity so scattered about over the magnificent
distances" of Washington, that, if surprised,
they could have been cut up in detail by an in.
ferior general force.
But how stands the matter now? The call of
President Lincoln for soldiers TO maintain the
Integrity of the Union," has been answered
by the offers of millions of men and money
Within month forty thousand men from the
ranks Of the people have been mustered, AIMED,
equipped and concentrated in and within few
hours call of Washington, and from Ne1 York
to St. Louis three hundred thousand troops are
organized, or are in rapid course of organiza-
ton, for active service. Two thousand men
have been thrown into Fortress Monroe. and
in conjunction with that fort blockading feet
has been established which completely locks
up the nayigable waters Of Virginia, and Mary
land, too, if necessary. Fifteen hundred men
have been put into Fort Pickens, and the CO.
operating feet there has been greatly
strengthened. An extensive blockadng
squadron has been created, and transport
vessels by scores have been added to the
government service. The supplies Of pro-
visions, &C., which heretofore, floating down
the Mississippi, have contributed SO largely to
feed the "cotton States,' have been cut of at
Cairo, and that position, held and fortified by
Illinois, is secure against all corners.
Thus within a month from their signal of
war, when Washington was fairly within their
grasp, the revolted States find themselves
blockaded on the east, in the south and in the
west and menaced in front from the North
with an available armed force of 100000 men,
the advanced column of which, to the extent of
thirty or forty thousand, may move now, any
day, upon Richmond from Washington. With
all the facilities of the navy and the complete
control of the seaboard in our possession, with
all the resources of our Western granaries, and
cur Eastern manufactures, and of Europe cut
off from the revolted States, with all the finan-
cial resources Of the great continental mart of
New York at the service of our government
against rebellious organization without money
and without credit without ships, and without
the means Of building or using them, who can
doubt the issue of this conflict? We say moth
ing of the Southern drawbacks of negro slave
population Of four millions, which, to take care
of more securely, the revolted States have left
the Union; nor do we care to include in this
review the Union elements of the South await
ing the hour of their deliverance. We think
the overwhelming powers at the service of our
military, naval, agricultural, me-
chanical and fnancial-are sufficiently indi-
Gated and sufficient in themselves, to warrant
the belief of a short and decisive war for the
Union.
The FEELING IN ENGLAND On AMERICAN Az
FAIRs.-By the arrival Of the Great Eastern,
which came up to the city yesterday, we are
in possession of English files to the LIST instant.
and are thus enabled to note the effect upon the
British public of the Presidents proclamation
and the uprising Of the great North to avenge
the bombardment of Fort Sumter-the Ameri-
ca. which sailed on the Wednesday following
the latter event. having reached Liverpool on
the 10th Of April. The vigorous policy of the
administration, and the unity of all parties
North, East and West, appear to have taken
some Of the London journals by surprise. 1t
was before thought that the reverse sus.