Daily national Democrat., 1861-09-21
Dallp Qatlonal lemotrat.
From the N. Y. Herald of August 25th.
The War and its Necessities.

,,e of; our loyal Stltes have derived some
wholesome instructions touching the strength
and energy of the Southern rebellion from
our late disasters in the field. We have thus
been taught. with all our overwh elming mill
tary resources in men and means, aud with
all our enthusiasm for the Union, aud all our
confidence in its good cause, that we must
bring these resources to bear upon the ene-
nv with an overwhelming weight, and that
they rust be carefully organized aud wisely
directed before we can hope for success. We
comprehend at length that we have Jagged
behind the activity of the rebels, that we
have under estimated their forces and fight,
ing capacities, and that they are not to be re-
duced by the inefficient half way mea ures
of holiday campagn.
The fact is also dawning upon the Admin
ieraion- Notwithstanding the general
thusiasm which prevails throughout our loyal
States. and the uneYampled liberality of our
loyal people in furnishing men hy hundreds
of thousands and o,oney hy huadreds of mil
hous-thnt there are se1i,ious and traitorous
peace organs and peace agitators among Us,
sowing the seeds of decentralization aud dis
cord, and that the generous forbearances of
peace in the matter of individual liberty to
speak. write, plot and conspire against the
Government, cannot be safely tolerated under
the stern necessities of this gigantic Southern
rebellion. 1t was impossible for the trainers
of the Constitution to provide for these ne
cessites, for they never dreamed of such
crisis to our country as this Bat the extra
ordinary demands of the crisis must he met,
and with the restoration of the Union we
shall be in better condition for the full en-
joyment of all our liberties under reign of
peace than ever We have been heretofore.
Meantime, however, in view of public har-
mony and official activity in the prosecution
of this war, all false preachers of peace and
teachers of secession standing in the way of
the Government must expect to be removed.
In this matter we recognize some evidences
of a new impulse Of energy in our Cabinet,
and in the more important matter Of for
ward movement against the enemy, are
encouraged with other evidences of II tnore
systematic activity at Washington than that
which led to the deplorable battle of Bull
Run. What may he the military combina-
tions and movements ehalked cut by Gen.
Scott and Gen Mcclellan we kaOw not and
If We knew we should not, without their con
sent, disclose them. We are equally ignor-
ant of the plans of Davis and BeauregaId for
{he future but we have seen eaough to know
that while the rebels are desperately strain
ing every nerve to keep this war within the
Border Slave States, and especially in front
of Washington, our true policy is to "carry
the war into A(rica"-that is, into the heart
of this rebellion, the Cotton States And this
can he done without much difficulty, for in
the absolute command of the sea we have the
command Of the seaboard Of every Cotton
State from South Carolina to Texas; and the
movement by sea from New York of an ar
s.y southward would Instantly compel every
Southern seaboard State to look after its own
defenses
We suppose that for month or two It will
be as much as can be done 10y Scott, McClel-
Ian, Wool. Rosencrnuz, Anderson, Prentiss.
Fremont and the other Generals in charge of
cur troops from Maryland to Missouri, to
make the needful preparations for a combined
forward movement; but when they do ad
vance we hope it will be in overwh lining
numbers and along the whole line, and that
this grand land movement will be supported
by n powerful naval movement along the
Southern sea-coast comprehending Il land
to"ce in transports of forty or fifty thousand
men. Thus the war will indeed be carried
into Africa, aud from the necessary disper-
sion of the rebel troops to guard a!! points OF
danger, they mny thus be easily subdued in
detail hv nm overwhelming force.
One 0i tie greatest advantages of n success
f,tl- campo gn- Of this description viii be due
command which it will give us of the South
-ern cotton crop, to be contributed and ware
housed by November, as the property OF the
rebel Government These cotton supplies,
as the legitimate spoils of war will not only
90 long way to indemnify the expenses OF
our army, bat in shipping it over to England,
we shall convince even Lord Palmerston that
the future supplies of American cotton to the
mills of Manchester can best be secured by
recognizing not the supremacy in the Cotton
States of their rebel Government. but Of the
Government Of the United States In
word, the campaign We have indicated will
bring at once the Cotton Confederates of the
South and The Cotton Cabinet OF England to
the recognition Of the fact that King Cotton
must submit to the lawe of or Union.
There is no necessity for hurrying up this
plan or any ether plan of military operations
against the rebels Tine wall strengthen,
discipline, hsrmonize and give confidence to
cur army while it is apparent that delay
will weaiien and demoralize the enemy For
the rresert rigid blockade 10y land and sea
Is the most effective iustrumentality of war
that can be used against the armies OF Davis.
Let General M4C%sllsn be prepared however,
for the contingency Of au attack upon any
part Of his defensive line of the Potomac.
and let the Cabinet aud the Generals of our
army make their preparations for a grand
combined forward movement in October or
November by land and sea, and we are conf
dent that the wholesome lessons of our late
reversee will lie redeemed in the final over
throw of this rebellion by the month of May.