The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-05-10

By REGIMENTS VERSUS By COMPANIES The
DRAWBACKS or THE SouTH.--It is remarkable
fact that while in all the loyal States volun-
teers are offered to the great and glorious
cause of the Union by hundreds of thousands,
and that we seldom hear of a smaller orgaui-
zation than regiment in any county of any
State attached to the old flag, the case is very
diff rent in the rebellious States. South Caro-
lima, their leader and special champion, has
sent up some two thousand men to assist the
rebel canse in Virginia, which is great con-
tribution from the Palmetto State. Those two
thousand tax her capacities as much as would
an army Of fifty thousand tax the capacities of
New York. Outside, however, of the resolute,
honest and desperate secession State Of South
Carolina we seldom hear of a larger secession
army reinforcement than q company. Thus
our Southern exchanges report that this city,
that town, that county and the other have
each organized a company, and that this or that
other county or town is organizing company
for active service. Even in Virginia this rule
prevails; for, with all the blowing and crow
ing of the aecessionists there, they seem to
move to the field only in companies. Even the
redoubtable Gen. Lee, it appears has only an
incomplete battalion under his immediate
command.
But this difficulty in mastering primarily any
thing larger than companies in the Southern
States may be easily explained. Their popu-
lation is scattered over large expanse Of ter
ritory, and they have very few towns be-
yond a population of three or four thousand
In some instances large county suffers from
the contribution Of even a company or two to
the army because il has very few white men to
spare. A certain number must be retained to
take care Of the negroes and keep them at
work; and then such of the industrial whites as
blacksmiths, tailors, shoemakers, &C., are more
than ever now needed at home. In fact the
proportion of unemployed white adult males in
the South, as compared with the North, is
small; and the proportion that can be spared
for war purposes. without detriment to their
families or to the necessities of the community,
is very small. Reduced by this civil war to
the increased necessities Of supplying many
things and many wants heretofore supplied in
Northern labor and Yankee notions, our rebel.
lious Southern people will very soon come to
appreciate the blessings of the Union which
they have trampled under foot.
This branch Of our argument is so very sug
gestive that with the Southern States under
rigid blockade, we think II would be easy to
show that after they shall have consumed the
clothes, shoes, hats, dry goods, farming imple-
ments &c on hand, they will be compelled to
make peace, in order TO get their needful sup.
plies. A rigorous blockade of single year
will be apt TO bring even South Carolina to
this extremity. Thus, in war against the
United States in losing the services ofhundreds
of Northern factories, and ships, and millions
of willing Northern hands, heretofore engaged
in supplying Southern wants, the Southern
States will soon be reduced to meet these wants
from the labors Of their own people. These
increased home labors will steadily diminish
their military capacities, so that at the end Of q
year Of war and rigid blockade, the revolted
States will almost be without soldiers or with
out clothes In the North, the men who have
been engaged In these services TO the South
are cnlisting for the war, and we have plenty
OF them TO spare. A vigorous war and rigid
blockade will bring ms an early and lasting
peace,