Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-06-27


thinks fit, bat compel the enemy to accept
lit. That is the whole secret. Ifhe thinks
SO, 1000 men enough to walk right over the
rebels, then $4,000 be it, in spite of our
deuurrers. If he wants 100, 900 immedi.
ately in hand, let that be the number. If
100000, say the word and let them be forth
coming at the earliest possible day. But
in any case, let the requisite number be
mustered forthwith, and Forward March !
be the word until the rebels are chased into
Texas, and the rebellion put down. If We
are whipped 10 a fair fight, let us give it up,
and make our peace accordingly. But let
Us get ready forth with to do our best, aud,
being ready, let US make the shortest pos
sible work of this treason. Guerilla war.
fare is formidable against weak and pur-
poseless commanders; Napoleon in person
vas never troubled by it. Tae General
who knows how to win great battle knows
how to compel his adversary to fight one.
And it is only by great battles-at least, BY
movements that look. to and offer SUCH
that this rebellion is to be extiuguished.
So much for the lesson Of Great Bethel.
-Nep York Tribune, 18th.
An expedition thus literally
aud fguratively in the dark could only eod
10 disaster Setting aside, Indeed, all die
tates of military science, the pIsiuest CON-
mon sense would pre- suppose some kuowl-
edge of the adversary thus sought in dark
ness; of the ground over whichthe advance
was to be made, and the nature Of the ob-
stacles likely to be encountered Signals
establishing the friendly character Of de-
taehments approaching each other might
have been suggested by the ordinary sound
Judgment, uninstruoted in the maxims of
Cesar, Frederick and ,Tomini. But our
leaders seem to- have had neither sense nor
science. Regardless Of the lives they were
hazarding, they flung the elite of the army
they commanded into the hands o! the eue-
my, which, if it had followed up its-adVau
tsges, might have cut the retreating forces
to pieces. Had Gen. Butler had ordinary
prudence, or his subordina Gen. Pierce,
courage and presence of mind, the calami-
ty would have been spared. But neither
seems to have supplied the absence Of mill
tary experience, With the simplest exhibi-
tion Of provision, practical judgment and
soldierly conduct and hence this misehiev-
Gus reverse.
Government, we cannot doubt, will make
thorough inquiry into the affair. If the
facts be as they appear upon first presenta'
ton, tho sooner this brace of Massachusetts,
barristers are dismissed to their special
pleadings, replication and demurers-the
petty warfare of the bar, at which they are
expert-the better it will be for the country
1t is possible such men might in time be
schooled into geueralship, but the educa-
ton is too costly. The people will not con-
sent that their best and bravest-the pat
riots who first hastened to the protection Of
the Union, aud the soldiers who, iu the
very hour of peril, proved how much too
valuable they are to be thus sacrificed
shall be squaudered to convert political
hacks into heroes, and to balance and ad
Just the chances of future Presidential
campaign. We llust have leaders worthy
of our men, or the army will perish through
disgust and decentralization. Let the Ad-
ministration see to it.-Mp York: Times.
X The conflict at Bethel, a name
uggestive of other thoughts than Of s'augh'
ter, initiates the campaign in Virginia.
Who can tell the long list of engagements
that are to follow, unless an unlocked for
aud Providential interpositiou shall arrest
the terrible drsiuma Of fratricidal hate aud
mutual destruction? Have our rulers no
arbiter but the sword, aud no terms but
submission to propose to those who are
their brethren ? Whero is the couciliatory
and effectiug spirit which pervadss the last
words of counsel that Washington and
Jackson left as legacies to their country.
men ?-Nc,o York Daily Ne,os.
We have many other extracts from the
Northern papers, but the f 'egoing are suf
faient to show how the news was received.
The N. York Herald says the "rebels' had
constructed an entrenched camp, compri.
.iog six batteries of rifed cannon and sixty
eight twelve pound howitzers; and in auoth,
er place the same paper '!ludes to the "cap
ture of 1900 rebels" and shouts joyously
- Butler is evidently the right man IN the
right place ~