Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1861-09-19

ton Will it be long war, short and mighty one
The Cabinet and the Northern press has pronounce
for the last Yet this is little more than an loie CREAM
What could 100000 men do
do not think there is General on either sioe aoe
to fight $4,000 men. And the North would need eight
or ten such Generals Certainly the 10000 under Nc
Dowel after i've hours fighting fought on mechanically
without any generalship The higher omcers haG COM
petey lost the guiding reiDs On side the South
ern troops ought to have been in Washington WITHIN
fortyeghty hours But the 10000 on the Confederate
side was / apprehend, too unwieldy body for cur
Generals Did not Bonararte say that not one OF DIS
Marshas could general fifty thousand men IN battle :!
Sout could bring them to the field, and place them
properly but could go no further
But without Generals, what could 100000 men DO
against the South By force of numbers and great
loss, they might take city after city But unless they
left large permanent garrisons their authority would die
out with the sound Of their drums. Such an army
marching through country covered with forests and
thickets, and occupied by population hostile to maD
and where even schoo-boys can " bark squire"
would be dcmated every hundred miles OF Its progress
by guerilla warfare, against which 1t could hud no
protection This mode Of attacking the South can ef
feet no. hing beyond the loss of life it will entail, and
the temporary devastation that will mark the track OF
the armies
But it is probable that circumstances would again,
as they have DONE overrue the designs of the Wash
Ing ton Cabinet and make the slow, long and ex
pensve-one to be cded less by battles than hy the
resources and endurance of the corobatants.
That portion OF the former I'm ted States will suffer
most in such contest and must finally succumb which
is least able to dispense with the support recel7to
from the other two sections. How the North can do
without our Southern trade presume it judge al
ter three or four months trial. But it would that
the failure to sell the South hundred and twenty
millions of their manufactures each year. the stoppage OF
so much of their shipping interest engaged in the
two hundred and twenty millions Of our foreign exports
and the return impOratons and in internal coast
ing trade together with the loss OF the profits and COM
missions Oh so business must have very serious
effect, tcO that | way OF escaping. Truly the
North has to pay dearly for its whistle OF Black Repub-
licanism. The Northwest depended partially on the
South for market its productions, and SO far will
suffer the loss of it. 1t must also be incidentally
affected by commercial embarrassmens at the North
They will assuredy have enOG to eat and to wear but
the fancy prices of real estate and Stocks by which
they comp uted their rapidly Increasing wealth. must tall
in way to asgonsh Wallstreet Should their own
crops fall they sometimes do, should the European
crops be abundant, their commerce will tall Yet, as
of the poor will have all that they get any
where-food and ramelt, that without Stint-the
Northwest will suffer comparatively little.
How will it fare with the South should the war be
long and powerfully waged to require the Southern
Confederation to keep say 900 men in and II
the ports strictly blockaded? This is an important
question, and Ole that can be answered only from
practical knowledge of the habits and dipos
ton OF the Southern people. Our needs will be pro-
Visions clothing money Tor the governmental and war
expenses and tor the purchase from abroad OF what
absolutely require, and not already supplied with.
AS for provisions, am satisfied that this We
are gathering enough for two years abundant supply
Every one Is raising corn, wheat and stock Ga this
point the South Iced not envy the Northwest Again.
manufactures are springlng up On all sides. In this
| State We are providing tor our Wants-rom uciier
matches and steam engines to powder ana red cannon
Clothing too though IT ruder texture and sometimes
inferior quality is abundanty made and easily pro-
cured. he supply of tea and coffee will, presume, in
time run O0t. his will put Us to some trouble, but
otherwise, neither tor provisions for clothes will the
south be seriously Inconvenience"
The blacks 10y the-bye more quiet and orderly now
if possible than beforel will devoted agrcu
ture, while the rapidly increasing demand for home pro-
auctions OF every kind gives ready employ ment to the
poorer classes Of the whites.
W nat amount OF gold and silver there is within the
! COreder1,e States l can only guess at suppose
about $25, 900 900. But the greater part of
penses at home, any currency satisfied use
will do, whether Bauk bills Confederate bonds or Treas
ury notes. When we go abroad, 1t must be with gold
with Cotton. This last is the spinal column of ouI
financial system. he following is the proposed mode
OF operating with it: Two millions, or two and hal
OF bales will be conveyed to the Confederate Govern
mtn TO be paid for III bonds Treasury notes. This
Cotton Will be WORTH at ordinary prices, hundred
millions OF dollars Ii it can be exported at once it il
SO much gold. Ii 1t Is retained it will form the security
Tor any loan that may be required abroad. The othe
third OF the Cotton will be sold by the planters bes
i they can on their own account.
i The chief difficulty is the blockade which may pre-
vent the xIor and sale abroad OF the Cotton LOAF
on it security while it is still unshipped and scatter
ed IN numbereSs small warehouses, could not easily b.
effected"
Up to the present time, and for six months more th
blockade SO far from doing any serious injury has, Oh
the contrary benefited, and will continue benefit tn
South forcing US to be active and to do Tor ourelve
much that preferred formerly pay others to do to
u.s. presume that next January, with crop of tire
and halt or four milloDs of bales hand the Soul
would become very restlVe under strict blockade
Should continue tCetIe months t7.ger property at til
South 10ouId go doWn they say At has IN New York
But before that time COMES another very serious com
pllcaton arlses-hoW England and France will stan
the cutting of their supply OF an article which de
pend tWohlTds Of the manufacturing interests of til
one and onelhird OF those of the other? They cannot
!, try they ever much supply the deficiency AS ia
as the teerg OF England concerned, and presume
those OF France, too, both nations are decidedly an
bitterly antsavery; but neither will be guilty of tn
mistake OF the North and utterly sacrifice vast interest
for the sake Of speculative idea. Ithey find that the
cannot 40 without Southern Cotton they will interior
first probably to make peace, and if that effort fa
then IN such other manner will secure for them wha
will be necessary. Mr.. Stewards letter to Daytor
and Its reception Europe the transportation of troop
TO Canada and Adma Mines declaration as to tn
neticeny of the blockade straws already showin
the possible of future events. Is the Feders
Government strong enough tor with England an
france In addition to that with the South.
e One other warllke course remans-to capture an
hold all the Southern ports and thus seek to conrC
commerce, independent of secession leaving the ntero
of the South to fret and ume as it pIeases This
VI the problem of belng the cat. The Northern force
would have to capture Norfolk Charleston Savannah
c Wilmington, n o., Pensacola, Mobile, New Orlean
and Galveston besides some fifteen otLer smaller points
AT each OF them they would find Stone Bridge an
even they succeeded, they could only hold ntar
possession and be forever in against the attacks
the State authorities Peace would reyer be establish
ed by any such IL would not be successful an
even successful, it would only hamper the South,
t would never subjugate it.
4 !" The spDaratnn Southor, Ctato, 81.