Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1861-08-21
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From tho Vow York Herald, Aug. ..
How TO cut the Sincws Of the Great Re
bcIliOn.

That money is the sinews of war is pro-
verbal truth which none will dispute. The
leaders of the Southern rebellion have no
money; but they have what they consider ITS
eouiyalent-cot;on-and what, if sold and de-
liyered, can command gold. In the speech
of Stephens, the Vice President of the Con
federacy, the plan is distinctively announced
The rebel Government do not ask money
They want the planters cotton, and, under
the influence of the eloqueuce OF Stephens
and other orators, travelling around, they are
obtaining large quantities of it. For the
cotton thus given them, they issue Conieuer,
ate bonds, and these bonds are put in circu-
lation as money. 1t is evident that the value
of such shinp astcrs depends on the stability
Of the government, and all who hold them, have
therefore, an interest in maintaining the re-
bcllion. When the cotton thus transferred Is
accumulated at the various depots, the heads
Of the bogus Confsderacy will say to the En-
rlish and French governments: You want
cotton. Here it is in abundance. We are
willing to sell it to you, only You must take
it through our Southern seaports, and not by
way of the North. If therefore, you will issue
YOUR proclamation declaring the blockade of
Charleston, Savannah, Mobile, Pensacola, and
New Orleans, broken end void by interna-
tional law and by virtue of commercial trca.
ties, We will sell you all the cotton you want.
Otherwise we will not let you have pound,
and YOU will have revolution on your hands
among YOUR own people before long" That
is the Southern plan.
Now our plan is this:
Let us send down tic Mississippi TO the
cotton States an army of i:ig. 900 men, who
will overthrow all that can be brought against
them: for. on the basis Of Bull Run, we can
whip the South man 70" nan, gun for gun,
and General for General and we can get
all these requisites II We can defeat the
Southern army, We can get the cotton as {"
matter OF coarse and being contraband o.
war. in fact the very sincwS Of war, we have
o rioht to confsca,c it and sell it 10 pay the
expenses of the war. 1t is tue property Of
the r,lcl Government, and is forfeited accor-
ding to tie act of Congress conliscaiing the
property Of all citizrnS found in rebellion
AGAINST tho Government. We can therefore
sell it 10 the English and French, and tie
blockade question, which low creates SO
much uneasiness at this side of the Atlantic
as we'll as in Europe, will receive an easy So
luton. Let the British and French Govern
meuts, th,re:o,c, pause aud consider from
which quer,cr they are likely to first get tie
coveted iaL,ic, and act accordingly. ii they
should .rte 70 lake it from the Confederate
G wernmen', the: will !ail in their cxlecta-
tions for the North will never let them get
it. But il they agree to take it from the
United States Government, no very long time
will clapse till they arc in possession Of an
ample supply; and at the same time we shall
have the means ot Gc(raying the expenses of
the war for this year, while we deprive the
enemy of his sole resource and his last hope.
The cotton crop varies. Sometimes its
value exceeds S2O0,OOo,0O0. In 1850 it
amounted to SlGl, ,l34,923; and with tobac-
Co, roe, sugar and other products the exports
amounted to nearly S2Oo,0oo,0Oo. All these
productions in the possession of the rebels
will become forfeited to the Federal Govern
ment. Thus at single haul, the conquest CT
sae South would yield Two hundred million Ct
dollars.