Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1861-05-16
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ware and Maryland, VIII make common cauft
with the rebels against the United States Gov
ernmeni. There is much talk about .neu;rali-
ty' in Kertucky, Missouri. an3 Tennessee. J.
this case neutrality" means covert alliance
with rebels and treasonable willingness - sup-
ply them with aid and comfort. Tae Govern
ment will regard such "neutra's' AS enemies, and
will deal with them accordingly. MARYLAND as
pires to similar position of neutrality: but geo.
praphical necessity will compel the Government
TO lay hands on her at the outset ofthe war, and
IL is therefore not worth while TO es,rate her
among the parties 10 the conflict. Delaware
alone, Of the Border Slave States, eyirces loy-
atty to the Union.
The war which has now begun will therefore
be waged by the Free States, on one side, against
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 cen.
sus OF ls6O, amounts to 1883. .759 the free pop.
ulation Of the thirteen rebcllous States TO .G57,
Extraordinarily less than half that OF their op
ponents.
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Is at the service of the Government In the re.
bclious States certain number of men arc re.
quired at home To keep in subiection 39l2, 600
slaves By law of Louisiana planters ere obli.
ged to keep on their plantations a sufficient force
of white men TO resist negro insprrection. Gus
tom renders the same practice imperative in the
other Slave States. Thus, from the 1861 1896
! lwh Of fLa 10 IL.
a large body Of adult males. who are required al
home to defend the women and children from
the negroes. IL is with the balance only that
the Government will have to deal
Ia modern warfare, however, success is won
not so much by numbers as by money The
longest purse, in the long run, infalliby wins the
day. The comparative wealth of two sections
thus becomes matter OF the highest moment.
la the Banks of the States now constituting the
Southern Contederacy, there is at present about
500 600 900 in sYccie in the Banks of the Border
States about S5,000,O00 more. With tho ex-
ception OF the Banks of New Orleans, all the
Banks of the Gulf States, of North Carolina,
ane OF Virginia, and many of those OF Tennessee
and Kentucky. are insovcnt, have, suspended
rent except at enormous discount. la the
three cities of New York, Philadelphia, and
Bosten, the Banks hold about S5l ,000, 900 in
specie, and the sub treasures and mint about
Sl5 900 more. Notes of Western Banks,
secured by deposits of Slave State stocks are
greatly deprecatc. But the New England is at
par 1t is now well known that the attempt to
negotiate $4,000 ,0Qe of Confederate Bonds, ten
days ago, was = failure. notwithstanding the ter
rorism exercised by the rebel press When our
Government asked for ss,00O.000, $4,000 900
were offered notwiths,lnd;ay the opposition of
leading newspapers Tie Southern Savings
Banks contain so little money
that the amount is net worth re.
cording in Statistical reports in New Eagland,
New York. and Pennsylvania, the working clas
ses have deposited some Sl3, 100000 in Savings
Banks. The Government of the United States
can borrow, without difficulty, aud u q modcr.
ate rate OF interest. hundred millions year
at New York for two or three yesrs, If so much
be required TO scppress the rebellion the Gov.
ernment can not borrow ten millions ~ home
or ten cents abroad. Ii, therefore. money b, ta,
sincw OF war, AS historians assure Us, brie.
campaign must settle the question In favor vi
the North
Mechanical appliance are az essential = var
as men aud money. In these the preemineace
of the North is unquestionabe. The Southern
States are purely agricultural region. Mechan-
ica arts Cannot thrive side BY side with slavery.
There is foundry at Richmond. Virginia, at
WI rh nd uapp nfr
tured, and their are one or two other small shoIs
in other Southern States where Northern me-
chics make few gunes. But, with sparse ex-
ceptions every pistol rifs. musket, cannon, bay
onet sword and bowie. knife. and every pound
oil powder. every box of caps, every cartridge
every shell, every fuse, and every bullet on
or ball that used By the Southern troops was
made At the North and not be replaced al
the South. From the hour the United States
occupy the Richmod foundry and blockade tie
Southern ports the supply OF arms to the rees is
sopped. Every cartridge burned after tha; time will
be an irretrievabe losss Nor is there any chance
that foundsres will be established at TIC
South Shareholders dare not. The nost
magnificent pasture-laads IL America are untitled
because the Southern whites dare 10; trust their
slaves with scythes 20 nov hsv; much less coaid
they suffer arnories and factories - lie establish
ed where negroes might obtain bOvter, ball. a..d
edged tools. In the North. on tEe other hand,
the prospect is that every adult male will in the
course of few weeks, be supplisi with the naost
perfect weapons of zodsrn warfare, and that the
highest efforts of mechanical skill aud modern
engineering t4lea. will be a. the service Of goy-
e.nueni.
Again, in wars bet~eez regions ~hich have
both a large eoas: surface. much depends or tbs
respective tonnage Of the beiligeren;s. In th.s
respect tic poves Of the GoEerar.en; u 20 the
! poEe- of the rebels Is foar kunlrsi 70 one
l Where they have thousand ;oas the Gcrern-
: men, hays four thousand. All the gres. steam
aud clipper vessels all the fast yachts. and the
bulk ofthc small stsazess and proPliers are own
2 ed AZ the North. New York alone car tt out.
in thirty days, feet sufsciensto cantS-e eTery
Southern port. Nr. Jefferson Davis committed =
sad blunder in or ganizinr a system of privateer
ing. tie rLag tempt bali dozen pirate 70 siers
few of our merchant ships. But be has certain
iy tie ultimate extiFpation Of Southern vessels
from tie face Of the deep. n SIX mosihs from
I IBIS tine there viii not be craft aaost ,tai ":