New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-12-02
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~ from de Loadoa Tiassss ces q.
The Northern States are pouring battalion after
battalion into the Federal capital while IL Id said
that even these incsssant leave
the army under Mcclellan inferior in number TO
that OF the enemy. The magnitude Of the forces
sltner actually under arms orshortly to be raised
y almost Incredible. After all the Attachments de-
manded BY the sxaggerations Of the American
Journals, the residae of probable truth as compu-
sed py our special correspondent, rs enough to as
:Loand a us. aofe % the regular armies OF Edrope
sks any spproach 10 the scale Of these 1eyies GIL
of winch be y obseTFed, are for active and inafie-
date service. The srarepate uot,uIatiouy m fl,e
States aahsrjng to ths nion is very nearly that Of
side. Out Of our populatIon ne MAINTAIN ars army
--considered large eas- of some 2300e0 men,
being in the proportioa Of about one soldier 10
every hundred Inhabitants Az sssSss s5ss
lation, have placed s569a0 troops n lie efd. and
are on the point Of increasing taeae nnmbers to
5oe, 900, and could. in the opinion Of our CORES
pondent on the spot, rase ~ least 600 600 with
out any remarkable pressure., essss q
The population Of the SoEsh is about 9060, ,000,
bat from shis aggregate mnst be deducted 600 900
on account OF slaves, who do not bear arms. This
leaves 8 6,6o0,e08 70 be drawn upon for the supply
of the army, and We are assured that from this
pspulation-s population less than that Of Ireland
The Confederate Government can maintain o
force of 500, 600 men. This would be one soldier
g every ten inhabitants of the co,zntry % proper
ton neVeTresched before 6,Sss4 55zs5 @
America, IN all ,its great centers Of population,
Is one vast camp. aA Democratic Republic, with
standing army OF less than Il, 600 men, has been
transformed IN tie space Of a few short months
isto something very like despotissn, acquiring
more and more Of military character day after
day. France, under the first empire, was not more
completely merged in its army than the Northern
half Of the Union is at the present moment The
unioni5ts have neither been dsheartened by de-
feat nor Disconnected by DELAY. ~ f1..f5ss5g
The war fever has spread tilt all classes are en-.
braced ~ the consagion- Soldiers are everything,
and every ybody j soldier. No party, or section
o. party, ventures to talk Of peace. The only
Kind Of business thriving is that springing ont 81
the Wsr: Army contractors, manufacturers of
Wari'ke implements, and purveyors Of military
stores are driving prodigious trade, but an other
'peaeefnS pursuits are either languiahing Or sus-
pended. Excepting in the rennoter States there Is
little actual fighting bHt drilling serves for excite
sment and occupation till the collision occurs NE
two sections of the Union creating their armies
before maFehng ont fo battle. The absence Of d
standing force has not proved the least presarval
tive against war. What other countries kept
ready made the Americans are now making a. fast
as they can, an enormous scale, at an exsraYar
giant outlay and for the most terrible of combat.