Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-08-02
One of Bennett's own ArtIcIes--HIs
Plan for Finishing up the War and
Paying or the Cost.

One of Bennett's Own Artleles--His
Plan for FInIshiug up the War and
Paying or the Cost.
From the n. Y. Herald of yesterday.l
How TO END TIKI WAR BY Next May
Congress has voted 900 men and $780,
600, 900 to carry on the war in which the
government is embarked TO put down the
great rebellion. There is nothing left for
us but to go through it; but the question
is, how it can be carried to speedy term.
ination, for q long, languishing war would
be destructive TO every interest. The plan
then, is to raise 5000 men instead of
5OO, 900, and to raise loan OF S6o0,0OO,-
600 instead of $780, 600. The defeat
lat Bull ran will make the war cost US
SlOO, 600, 900 more than would have been
necessary had not that foolish advance
on Richmond been made. Under the
organizing mind OF Mcclellan, let the
6OO,OO men be sent to some twenty
or thirty camps of instruction, and,
after being duly drilled and formed
into corps under the best officers, let
2OO,O be placed on the line of the.
Potomac by next October, and then let
turing all the cities on its banks, iuclud-
| ing New Orleans. Then let 100000 be
sent by sea to operate in sundry columns
| from the Atlantic coast, capturing Charles
ton, Savannah, Mobile and Pensacola. As
nearly the whole fighting element of the
I South is now in Virginia, the cotton States
would be rapidly conquered; for the rebel
army between Richmond and Virginia
could not go to their relief, with 100000
| Union troops in their rear, on tine banks OF
| the Potomac, ready to march after them,
taking Richmond on the way.
! AS the slaves are mostly found in the
cotton States, these contrabaud goods
/ would become spoils Ofwar, together with
| all the real and personal estate of the reO-
els, in pursuance fthe act introduced into
Congress conliscating all the property of
the rebels, houses, lands, horses and me-
/ groes. The Shareholders in the revolted
States number about 100000. The
slave number about 100000. There are
about $50, 900 poor whites in those Suites
| who have no SLAVES and no interest in sla-
very. Let the slaves be sold TO them at
! $25 per head. the price of live Yankee
caught at sea by the privateers of JEFF
ferson Davis-the terms to be either
cash or credit to be redeemed in cot
ton. This sale wonld at once ere
ate majority of Union men through
out the SoMth, while it would realize sum
of seven hundred and fifty millions of dol
lars, which would pay the expenses of the
| war. Inen the COTTON Oh tue present save
holders, which will be found accumulated
ut the seaPorts and other points, must also
be seized and sold to England and France.
! The proceeds of this sale would give us q
handsome profit on the war, filling the
treasury and saving our government tue
necessity of taxation by revenue, or in any
other shape for years to come. Thus would
the war be finished, peace established and
the Union restored. All this may he done
before the lst of AtAy, 1869. If it be not
done, it will only be because we have not
the right kind of men to comprehend the
plan or carry ont the programme.