The Camden confederate. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1861-1865, 1861-12-13
From the London Times.


'1'Iac Two Arlnics-An English View.
The Northern States are pouring battalion
after battalion into the Federal capital, while
it is said that even these nccssant reinforce,
mcnts still leave the army under Mcclellan
inferior in numbers to that of the enemy.
The magnitude Of the forces, either actually
under arms, or shortly to he raised is almost
Incredible After the abatcmcnts dcmandc |
by the cXaggcrations of the American journals,
the residue of probable truth, as computed bv
our special correspondent, is enough to astound
u.s. None Of the regular armies of Europe
make auy approach to the scale of the levics.
all of which, be it observed, arc for active ant.
immediate service. The aggregate population
of the States adhcring to the Union is very
nearly that of Great Britain, the ADVANTAGE
being rather on our side. Out of our popula
ton We maintain an army-considcrcd a LARGE
onc-of some 100000 men, being in the
proportion of about one soldier to every hun
drcd Inhabitants
The Northern States, from an equivalent
population have placed 100000 troops in the
field, arc on the point of increasing these num-
bers to 100000, and could, in the opinion of
our correspondent on the spot, raise at least
one million "without any remarkable pres
sure
The population of the South is about
100000, but from this aggregate must bc de-
Quoted 100000 ON account of the slaves.
who do not bear arms. This leaves c,000, 900
to be drawn upon for The supply of the army,
and we are assured that from this population
population less than that of Ircland-Me
Confederate Government co1a nuintuin a force
Of 100000 men. This would he one soldier TO
every ten inhabitants Of the coantry- a pro-
portion nepc2' reached BEFORE
America, in all It's great centres of popula-
ton, is one vast camp. A democratic repub-
lie, with standing army Of less than $4,000
men, has been transformed in the space of a
few short months into something very like a
dcspolism, acquiring more and more of mil
itary character day after day. France, under
the first empire, not more completely
merged in its army than the Northern half of
the Union is at the present moment The
Unioniss have neither been dishcartened bv
defeat nor disconnected by delay.
The war fever has spread till all classes
are embraced by the contagion. Soldiers are
everything, and vcrybody is a soldier. No
party, or section of party, adventures to talk
OF peace. The only kind of business thriving
is that springiug out of the war. Army con-
tractors, manufacturers of warlike implements
and purvcyors OF military stores, are driving a
prodigious trade, but all other peaceful pur-
suits are either languishing or suspended. En-
ccpting in the rcmotcr States, there is little
actual fighting, but drilling serves for excite
mcnt and occupation till the collision occurs.
The two sections of the Union are creating
their armies before marching out to battle
The absence of standing force has not proved
the least prescrvative against war. What
other countries kept ready made the Amcri-
cans are now making as fast as they can on
an enormous scale, at an cXtravagant outlay,
and ior the most terrible of combats
EInOOrtant from Mexico.