New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-11-09
Ths Greaa Federal Elect.

More to amuse our readers than for any other
purpose, we copy from the New York Herald the
following tremendous boast Of what the great Fed
eral feet is going TO do:
. Let US suppose. however, that in North or South
Carolina or Georgia, this expedition has made
lodgnent, the question arises, what viii be it's plan
of operations? We presume that the land forces
will be put on shore at point of debarkation suit
able for q naval readezvotis; that General Sher-
man will at once proceed to fortify his position
against any probable land attack, and that large
proportion Of the feet will straightway return to
Fortress Monroe for more troops. In this way by
the first Of December Gen. Sherman may find
himself at the head Of sixty thousand men and he
may eat his Christmas dinner in the center Of an
army of one hundred thousand. Then, changing
his programme from occupation to invasion, he
may march through the heart Of the cotton States
to the Mississippi river, coastEise, with the fleet
cooperating with him, to Charleston, to Savan-
nah, to Mobile ard to New Orleans
In either event the war will now be transferred
from the border slave States 10 the cotton States
| where it properly belongs, and thus with or with
4 out q blow from Gen. Mcclellan, the great rebel
army in Virginia will soon be deInorazed and dis-
| persed. Nor can there be, in any intelligent mind,
| the shadow Of doubt that when relieved Of the
rebel forces of the cotton states Virginia will be
speedily restored to the Union, through the spon
taneous reaction of her loyal people. So with all
the other border slave States The rebel forces of
i when they are relieved Of their Southern invaders
the reignof secession, even ia Tennessee, will be
endes LOT tine Union forces OF the great w est and
4 Of Kentucky will be moving southward with the
retirement OF the rebels.
, Meantime, from the last circular of Memminger,
the Secretary Of the Treasury Of the rebel Gov
ernfaent, that spurious Government is confessedly
under financial pressure which it cannot longer
sustain while the cottnn planters are as evidently
! on the verge OF rebellion againstit. They demand
relief; Memminger demands money ; but how are
they to get it unless they can sell their cotton 2
Cur blockade locks them mp: they have consumed
itheir available resources, for themselves and the
rebel army in cash clothing and shoes The win
ter is upon them. What are they to dog 4
The naval expedition will settle the question. 1t
will open one or two Southern cotton ports and
upon the test of allegiance to the Union the
, Southern cotton planter will be invited to bring
forward his cotton and ship it to England. Be
ginning Within the lines OF occupation OF OUT
Southern army, shipments of cotton thus secured
will soon spread wholesome infection through
out the cotton States to the extent of adeeisIVe
counter-revolution. We know that the majority
of the substantial people of the cotton States wer.
dragged headIong into this suicidal rebellion W.
are assured that they are anxiously awaiting ths
hour of their defverance, and we believe that they
| have had enough Of Yanceyis Utopia ofa Southern
Confederacy to rise against it with the very frsl
g encouraging opportunity.
, This opportunity will soon be made manifest
and the consequences, we apprehend, will con
vince even Lord Palmerston of the moral and ma
| terial power of the Government of the United
States in this for the Union. In q word, from
. this great seaboard expedition, from our still in
ereasing armies in the border slave States, from
" the desperate financial straits of the rebel treas
8 Jury, from the terrible exaetions and suffering
which this rebellion has brought upon our South
ern people, from the increasing signs OF 5outher
" Union reaction and from the approach of winter
with its severe necessities, there is every reaso
/ to hope that this great Southern rebellion will b.
s. utterly subdued and forever extnguished by th
: next fourth of March. f ''+ +t't ~ f.'@