New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-11-04
The North and the SOuth-What Each are
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From the Cincinn9ti IIines.l .....
An exchange in comparing the exertions of the
North and the South in the pending strngg lie, says
that, &C if the South with less than half thepopu-
lation of the North, can turn out more men than
the latter, she will succeed and deserves to sue
ceed too! If we think more Of our personal com,
fort than we do of our liberties, we are unfit to
bear the name of freemen--and the sooner we are
subdued by a. superior power, the better. A few
more reverses, and we shall have earned the
right of being despised by the meanest power on
earth.'' 'sl-t
Although we are not willing to concede that the
rebels deserve success, Or that the ethargy OF the
North deserves defeat, yet il the former section
continues its gigantic exertions, and the latter does
no more than it has done, the Constitution will be
overthrown, and the Union severed by contempt
ible minority ..s ..- a. .ssr -vg= ~ -.4,
Making allowance for the divided sentiment in
the border slave States, we find this struggle Is
conducted by seven millions of people, fighting in
the cause of despotism and slavery, against
twenty-one millions contending for law order and
constitutional liberty the latter having at its COM
mand the entire navy, the majority Of the regular
army all the best grain-raisng territory, all the
manufactures, and nearly all the money in the
| country and yet the foeman has always been able
| to congregate the largest armies, and of course,
| between men of equal courage, the advantage
| must decide the fate OF the day. gs.-
| Their armies are moved with CELEBRITY from point
to point, while are kept idle in the camps to
| be demoralized by inactivity. A few painted logs
| or large stove pipes, and a regiment of men, is
sufficient to keep 25U000 men at bay, while the
| IMAM DOOy OF tue feDelS go 10 some OLneF pO1nt.
| With large fotilla at our command the Potomac
| has been closed, or at least batteries have been
erected so that it be closed at any moment me-
cessary or convenient and yet not man is moved
in the threatened direction, and we are daily told
that our enemies have, as yet, magnanimousy let
our ships pass and repass. This they will no doubt
| continue to do until they discover some prize
| worthy an effort.
1t is true, our ships have occasionally "shelled
the woods y and "found no rebels II but of what
consequence were these puerile expeditions, if the
| disputed ground was unoccupiedi They were as
senseless as the chastising of the by Xerxes.
| There can be no longer any question that we
| have been out-generaled on the Potomac il not
elsewhere. No doubt but our enemies smile, when
they see how easily we have been deceived, con-
centrating our armies where there was no danger,
and leaving exposed points threatened by attack.
1t was not by encountering Hannibal in Italy,
but by carrying the war into Africa, that the pow
/ er OF Carthage was broken; and it is not by de-
fensye, but offensive operations that the rebel
lion can be crushed. The sooner this is realized,
| and the sooner the Government makes prepara-
tops commensurate with the magnitude of the task
before it, the better.
If we lacked single essential to the prosecu-
ton OF the war, there would be some excuse for
tdelay. But we do not. New England manufac-
| turers can furnish clothing aud arms in abund-
| ance; Pennsylvania and the Northwest could feed
all the armies of Europe, and New York mer-
chants, and indeed, the capitalists all over the
/ country, have literally furnished money, and any
amount which may be needed will be forthcoming
As to men, see what Indiana and Illinois, with
live Governors, have done! Other States would
have done well, under the same circumstances,
and we should have had an army of at least Geo.
| 900 men in the field From the commencement
the people have manifested the utmost willingness
to volunteer; but they have, too often, met with,
not only no encouragement, but absolute discour-
agement.
I On the other hand, not rebel has offered his
services to the Confederate authorities but he has
been accepted; and whenever the voluntary sys.
tenn failed, the ranks have been filled by drafting.
With but single line of railroad from the cotton
States to Richmond, an army of quarter of q
in Western Virginia; and with comparatively few
resources, it has been fed and clothed. -
Suppose the cxertions of the loyal States hat
been equal, in proportion to their numbers and
advantages, with those of the dsloyal ones, does
any one suppose that to-day there would have
been the vestge of the rebellion remaining? 1t il
not too late yet to retrieve what we have lost b,
inactivity; butit will be too late ere long.