The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1861-05-23
NO. SO.
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"A few Figures.
From Harper's Weekly.

| aware ana Maryland, VIII make common cauS
with the rebels against the United States Gov
eminent There is much talk about neutralit
in Kentucky, Missouri, and Tennessee. In thi
case mentality" means covert alliance wit
rebels, and reasonable willingness to suppl
them with aid and comfort. The Government
will regard such ''neutrals" as enemies and vii
deal with them accordingly Maryland aspire
| to a similar position of neutrality but geo
graphical necessity will compel the Govern
| ment to lay hands on her at the outset of tht
war, and it is therefore not worth while to est
mate her among the parties to the conflict
Delaware alone the Border Slave States, evin
ces loyalty to the Union.
The war which has now begun will therefore
be waged by the Free States on one side agains
thirteen Slave States on the other.to wit: Vir
ginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Flor
ida Alabama, Mississippi Louisiana, Texas Ar.
kansas, Tennessee, Kentucky and Missouri.
The population of the Free States, by the
census OF 1860, amounts to Is, 950,759; the free
population of the thirteen rebellious States to
1867 Extraordinarily less than half that OF
their opponents.
In the Free States every man able to bear
arms is at the service of the Government In
the rebellious States a certa in number of men
are required at home to keep in subsection g.
9l2,096 slaves By law of Louisiana, plant
sufficient force Of white men to resist q negro
insurrection. Custom renders the same police
imperative in the other Slave States. Thus,
from the 1867 1886 whites Of the rebellious
States must be deducted large body Of adult
males, who are required at home to defend tine
women and children from the negroes 1t is
with the balance only that the GovernNent will
have TO deal.
In modern warfare, however, success is won
not so much by numbers as by money The
longest purse, in the long run, infallibly wins
the day. The comparative wealth Of the two
sections thus becomes matter of the highest
moment. In the Banks of the States now con
shutting the Southern Confederacy, there Is at
present about 10000 900 in specie; in the
Banks of the Border States about S5,000O 600
more. With the exception Of the Banks of New
Orleans, all the Banks of the Gulf States, of North
Carolina, and of Virginia, and many of those of
Tennessee and Kentucky, are insolvent have
suspended specie payments, and issued notes
which are uncurFent except at an enormous dis
count. In the three cities of New York, Phil
adelphia and Boston, the Banks hold about 81,
O0J,O 600 in specie, and the sub-treasuries and
mint about 1900, 600 more. Notes of Western
Banks, secured by deposit of slave State stocks
are greatly deprecated. But the currency OIL
Penns ylvania, New York, and New England
is at par, 1t is now well known that the att smpt
to negotiate 5000, 300 of the Confederate Bonds
ten days ago, was a failure, Notwithstanding
the terrorism excited by the rebel press When
our Government asked for SS 200, 00U, $34. go |
600 were offered, Notwithstanding the oppgsi- |
ton of leading newspapers. The Southern
Savings Banks contain so little money that the
amount is not worth recording in statistical re- |
ports; in New England, New York aud Penn
sylvania the working classes have deposited
i,,
eminent OF the United States can borrow with
out difficulty, and at moderate rate of interest
hundred millions year at New Y orz, for two
or three years. if SO mach is required to support
the rebellion; the rebel Government cannot
borrow ten millions at home Or ten cents abroad
II therefore, money be the sinew Of war, ~'as
historians assure US, very brief campaign
must settle the question in favor Of the North.
Mechanical appliances are as essential in wat
as men and money. In these, the ore-eminence
OF the North is unquestOnable. The Southern
States are a purely agricultural region Me-
chanical arts cannot thrive side by side with
Slavery. There is foundry at Richmond. Va. |
at which arms aud munitions of war are manu-
featured and there are one or two other small
shops in our Southern States where Northern
mechanics manufacture few guns. But with
sparse exceptions, every pistol, rife, musket,
cannon, bay onet, sword and bowie knife, and
every pound Of powder, every box of caps, ey-
cry cartridge, every shell, every fuse, and eve
~ bullet Or bail that is used by the Southern
troops, was made at the North, and cannot be
replaced at the South. From the hour the Uni
ted States occupy the Richmond foundry and
blockade the Southern ports, the supply ofauns
to the rebels is stopped
Every cartridge burned after that time will
be an Unbelievable loss Nor is there any chance
that foundries will be established at the South
Shareholders dare not. The most magnificent
pasture lands in America are untitled because
the Southern whites dare not trust their slaves
with scythes to NOW hay; much less would they
suffer armores and factories to b. established, !
where negroes might obtain powder, balls and
edged tools. In the North on the other hand,
the prospect is that every adult male will, in the
course OF few weeks, be supplied with the
most perfect weapons of modera warfare, and
that the highest efforts of mechanical skill and
modern engineering talent will be at the service
oil the government
Again, in wars between regions which have
both large coast surface, much depends on the
respective tonnage for the belligerents. In this
respect the power of the Government is 10 the
power of the rebels as four hundred to onc.--
Where they have thousand tons the Govern |
ment has four hundred thousand All the great
steamships and clipper vessels, all the fast
yachts, and the bulk of the small steamers and |
are owned at the North. New York |
alone, can fit out feet in thirty days,suilicient
to capture every Southern port. Mr.. Jefferson
Davis committed sad blunder, in organizing
a system privateering. He may tempt half
a dozen pirates to seize a few OF our me reliant
ships. But he has certainly secured the ulti-
mate extirpation of Southern vessels from the |
face 1.-THE deep. In six months from this time
there will not be a craft afoat that viii dare TO
hail from any port south of the capes Of the
Delaware.
What then. can the South hope from this alb
surd rebellion?