Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1861-06-11

The Charleston mercury is bscpnsifsg alarmed
in view of the great and { .sgslc proparatso.,u
of the Administration for crdshiog thosSbeIi-
ion, and in its issue Of the 3lst ult gives ex-
preston 70 this feeling thus
Night and day, for the last two months,
has the Northern Government been making her
cuean efforts in Its department of war. Prep
araton on the most gigantic scale has gone on
steadily and unAagging under the intelligent
and able superintendent and direction of GEN
eral Scott. An immense body of volunteers
have been thrown into camp, andare drilling
eight hours day under competent officers of
West Point training. The arms at hand have
been distributed, aud all who are to engage soon
in battle have been thoroughly equipped with
the best weapons. Factories, for the manuiac-
ture of cannon, rifles, sabres, biyonets and am
munition of every description, are in full spe-
ration at the North during the whole twenty
four hours of each day.
Agents have long since been sent abroad to
Europe to procure and forward ,'as fast as posi-
bic, cargoes Of improved arms, which have be-
gun to arrive. Great efforts have also been
made for the health. comfort and supplies of
Northern troops. Energy and promptitude
have characterized their movements both in
Maryland and St. Louis and their success along
the border has, so far, been complete. They
have, in the West, obtained and secured the
great repository OF arms Tor that section,
equipped oE enemies Of st. Louis, Illinois, In
diana and Ohio, leaving the resistance men of
Missouri poorly provided, Kentucky unarmed
and oYerawed, and Tennessee also, with mea-
gre provision for fighting, dependent on the
cotton States for weapons Of defense Mary
land has been cowed and overpowered, Wash
iugton rendered as SECURE as may be- while
Virginia is invaded, and Richmond threatened
with capture.
In all this the military proceedings of the
North, since the fall of Sumter, have been emf
nenty wise. For the purpose of overpowering,
disheaItening and gaining the first advantages
which both at home and abroad, are of inn
mense importance, the concentration of all the
forces available as promptly as possible, has
been clearly the course of generalship and true
economy. The first blow is said to be often
halt the battle. The war policy of Scott and
the Northern Government has all the effect of
the first blow. The final result we cannot in
the slightest degree, doubt. The immediate
signal will depend, in a great measure, upon
the number Of troops now got ready aud the
efficiency of thcspreparation made for them by
the Confederate Government during the same
period Scott has been at work Let us not
commit the mistake of undertaking our enemy
or of supposing that, in modern warfare, it is
only the courage of people and the relative
military talent of their field officers that decide
the issues Of war. Ability in combinations and
bravery in executing them may fail OF success
where the material is wanting or deficient An
hours delay OF a corps of reserve lost the bait
tie of Waterloo and Napoleon fought with
the best troops in the world. They were cut to
pieces"