The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1861-10-26
THE FORCE OF THE REBELS.

Among the many estimates of the forces
which the rebel leaders have now under
arms and actually in the field. the most de-
tailed. and at the same time the most pre-
posterous. is one which sets forth their
grand total at $50 900 men, and gives to
the separate States such quotas as $4,000
to Virginia. 10000 TO South Carolina Ca
900 to Alabama, 1000 to Florida, 50. OoO
to Tennessee, and $1,000 respectively TO
Arkansas and Texas.
Let US look little closely at some oil
| these prodigious contingents. South Caro-
lima, which is reported to have sent % 0O0
to the field, has, by the census of 1869. a
white population of 99l ,623. The State OF
New York, by the same census, has 3. 1913.
544 white inhabitants, and, therefore, If il
furnished troops in the same propo rtion as
South Carelina. would raise about 265, GOO.
Does any man in his senses suppose that
New York, with all her wealth and com
mercial resources, could put such an army
as that in the field? And if not, how can
South Carolina have raised aud equipped
the force credited to her? - .
The contingent of $4,000 men ascribed
to Virginia is still more incredible, if we
consider that at least one-third of her white
population Of .O47. 900 is loyal to the I'm
ion. And, equally astounding is the quota
Of 4 600 men which the petty and remote
State of Florida, with only 77,OOO white
inhabitants, is said to have sent TO the war.
But when we consider that, leaving out the
loyal population of Western Virginia, the
to, al white population of the seeded States
is only 5000. COO, the force of $50. 600
men which they are said to have in the field,
assumes proportion which is really stu
pendous. France, on the same scale. with
her population of SO, 900, 900. wealthy and
com pact as it is. ought easily to raise an ar
my of 2. 100000; England, with still great
err ease. 100000, and Germany, with her
As OOO, 600 of population, not less than 3,
$50. 900 soldiers.
We have no desire to underrate the forces
or the exertions of the rebel States. Con
sidering the weakness of their numbers and
their comparative poverty, they have exhib
tied wonderful spirit and energy-out there
are certain limits of military supply which
no nation can exceed, and which the South
will have reached long before it las sent
$50, 600 men to the battle fields of Virginia
and Missouri. . t
The National REPUBLICAN. Washington,
contradicting one OF the Her0ld's bugabop
stories about the vast rebel force in Virgin
ia, says:
THAT the total force of the enemy in
Virginia does not exceed 100000 men, is
as certain as it can be made by anything
short of an actual count.
eff the Administration would yield 20
TIE policy which the contractors seek to
dictate by their continual panics, We should
have our army here doubled. and then have
it kept in idieness till doomsdav. That is
what the contractors want. and it is the re-
al object of all the panics which they insti-
gate through the press. keeping themselves
carefully concealed all the while. But they
will find their game blocked by the Admin
istration. which is determined to bring the
war To a speedy closely. Y. Tribune.