Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-09-18
.w.IGP PROM THE ENEMY.
From the n. Y World, Sept. 18th.
more Wien, More Force.

7, ia now five months since the lombard
ment of Sumter and the great uprising, as
it ia termed, of the northern people. HOW
stand we? The rebels absolute masters OF
eIeven States, in half possession OF the
twelfth, pressing upon our borders, threaten
inc our capital, and we on the DEFENSIVE,
wondering when and where they Will strike!
Who that heard the burst of patriotic wrath
last April, and the great raliying cry tnat
swept over every northern hill and valley, |
could have believed that this September SUI
wouId have risen upon snch position! we
ho.st of our great dOines-exult over the
millions of money raised, and the hundreds
| of thousands of men armed equipped, drill led
discinliued: but, boast as we may, the Iacl
| still remains that the enemy is at our TIRES
| hold and we are on the defensive! We have
\ talked loud of our superior popouiation, su
| nerior wealth. superior credit, superior intel.
| iipence. superior morality, superior pnyslcal
nondition of our armies, superior everything;
| and vet here we are on the defensive We
| have heaped all manner of denunciat ion and
| eyecration upon the rebellion, stlgmatlzed IL
| 90 tho most nefarious and accursed that hu-
| man depravity ever conceived, sworn before
bigh heaven that il shall be put down, ana
the priceless heritage OF our iathere saved
and vet here we are the rebellion looming
week after week right at our iiou'' anu wv
on the defensive!
Now we are not going to take up the IN
sensate cry for an advance, whlcn, seven
, weeks ago, drove the national troops to such
disaster and disgrace. Heaven forbid! Our
troops are not prepared Tor an advahce--
There is not one of their commanding geu-
f eral-neither Mcclellan on the Potomac,
nor Wool at the Fortress, nor Rosecrantz IN
e Western Virginia. nor Fremont In Eastern
4 Missouri-who would be justified in pushin
} forward his columns at the present time; tor
e there is not one of them who would not Dc
/. opposed by superior force OF the enemy Id
superior position, aud the stake Is OF 100 Vas'
j. moment to be needlessly imperiled. Bu'
Y WHY this superior force on the part OF the
J. enemy? How is it that our twenty one mil
?, lions. after these five months, have unde
o arms a less number of soldiers this day. thar
the eight millions of the confederacyE W.
d NAV saw that the confederate government
d has used constraint, while our government
n has not. But the fact is that the great BODY
,e the immense majority, of the eoufederat
~ | soldiers enlisted as voluntarily as our own
- Even were it otherwise, our question Woui'
Q. still be unanswered. 1t matters not how Jen
d Davis has raised his immense force. Ther
,b | il is and it has been our business tC ou'
OF number it. No sane northern man Will a
In finn that we have been unable;-why Inc
IN has IL not been done! We have met revers
A. after reyerse-Great Bethel, Bull Run, Cal
40 tbage. Springfield, have suffered Missou'
in to be overrun. East Tennessee to be trodde
m under. have failed to follow up our adyar
No tage in North Carolina, and refralned 1rol
RI ali like demonstrations elsewhere,-and a
he for want of a sufficient number OF men. An
of what is still worse, there is not even nov
ce when all the hard consequences OF the de
c;encv have been brought home to us. an
nm ,deouate means In operation for its remed
me Congress contemplated aud authorized u
ON raising of five hundred thousand men for q
ed speedy suppression of the rebellion. v
in have not one-half that number Oh our roll
on all told; and, at the rate we are now enii'
mt ing. will not much more than keep good eV'
or | tb,, moor figure. against the current casu'
n | ti.- of disease and battle. 1t takes month
n. | % mo have found to our cost, 10 make ava
oh able soldiers. One would judge from t
en-. nresent progress of the North IN enllstin
viii that il had made up its mind to go throu
rou the winter campaign Win iorce no. ma .
ter rally larger than the present, and take
hey chances Ii this is indeed so, 1t reflects m
Ties erab.y upon our patriotism. :.
,eir Had we the half q million on foot, viii
on Congress voted or could we be assured
ON them by the first of December, it is moral
the certain that the rebellion would meet Its e
will before the heats of the next summer. WI
r il our present force, no man can say when
the will be effected, or indeed that it will
liar effected at ALIVE are simply fighting
SOL rebels Oh equal terms, with one quarter
ons l>our real strength. In such a cause as
baye-tbe very existence of the nation
soft stake-the North ought TO find no great {
risis ficulty in putting a million OF men uni
the arms. The French Republic of '93, wit
bich population but little exceeding our
,on- States, raised twelve hundred thousand q
the to repel the European coalition which
ANS, threatening its destruction. 1t is true Il
, are had Carnot in the civil councils who
ents. able both to infnse courage and enthusif
0, in into the people, and then to organize
stay the grandest unity and effect. We have
hem such inspiring, commanding, ability In
3 re- public administration. But we have-w
COM tough, to be worth far more-a people OF
not, equalsd Intelligence, who have had, for u
10 be generations, the richest experience OF
own blessings of Constitutional freedom.
IL is idle for the Northera people to
ever, for any new impulse from high places.
same on ght to find their stimulus to duty in
3 are own bosoms; or, if sa external monito
iples. needed, the mere sight of the glorious |
ut of and stripes 10 danger OF being humoled
TONS buried forever, ought 10 be enough.
dices enlisting must not lag, as 1t is doing.
q up- people every where mast wake up to the
rad = necessities Of the government, and rail-
vhole the overthrow of is enemies. The pre-
! and defensive position 90 shame aud daI
ofess- We ought to have armies that can q
mber. somsthinQ else-srnies before whose sup
) who strength rebellion will quail sed cover
! gov. stead Of amazing tss World .! = now
'srt Of with proud dsdalt front. We enouie
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