Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-09-14
Nollenity Of the London Tlmes-A Few
Choice Extracts.

OuVACc ANtEhCtBs |
The following extracts from numbers of
the London Times brought over by the last
steamer embody an amount Of malignity
seldom found in the same space;
Were England at this moment to an
nounce TO the world its intention to make
the speediest possible conquest of France, or
were France to make the same declaration
as to England, the world would laugh at the
egregious folly that had inspired the design |
and prompted the boast. The world would |
grant that, supposing either people to be in
fatuated enough, and obstinate enough, it |
could inflict enormous and irreparable in |
iuries on the other, but only at the cost of |
equal injuries TO itself. The ball once |
started, Fortune might befriend this side or |
that; it might give to either great victories
or periods Of advantage; it might even place
one eventually over the head of the other,
but still only at cost utterly out of propor-
ton to the value of the miserable result.
Now, that is the case Of the two Conteder-
acies across the Atlantic, where the sur.
viving half of an efete Federal Union has
undertaken to reduce the other half to its
Federal duties.
We say that this is the case, but before we
proceed step further, it is necessary to OBJ
serve that the case of the Northern Ameri-
cans is in some respects more difficult than
ours would be. They are not SO united as
we have always found ourselves in war.
Their Border states feel a divided allegiance.
They have to protect more than a thousand
miles of land frontier, including one closely
beleagued position surrounded by foes or ILL
affected adherents. Speaking the same Ian
guage as their foe, they have no means of
excluding spies from their lines, or even
traitors from their ranks. They have to
make a standing army and fleet. They
have to learn the first elements of tactics,
and even military disipline. They are with
out soldiers, or officers to command or train
them. Their revenue, at its best, before the
war, was only just sufficient to meet the in
terest of the debt likely to be incurred by
two years of the war on its present scale,
that revenue, however, is to begin with,
manned by the loss of the seceders and by
the stoppsge of traffic, so that it is question
able whether it will be possible to do more
than repair that loss by the new taxes now
imposed.
American credit is not so good as British,
nor is the credit of Federal Union in pro-
cess Of dissolution likely 10 be equal to that Of
united people. Lastly, war, which changes
| its character according to circumstances, es-
tsblishes special rules Of probability for diff
| ferent localities. The one rule established
by all American warfare is that the advant-
age is on the side of the defense. Our offens-
i've operations always failed against fortified
positions, against breastworks thrown up in
night, against forests full of an invisible
foe, against heat, hunger and thirst; against
the ever imminent flank attack; against the
certainty that every step diminished the
number, the strength and the munitions of
our own men, and increased those of the
enemy. The present war might, for its in
cidents, be chapter in our own disastrous
wars on that soil. The Northerners have
advanced upon fortified position, but a
| Wooh;nrrton TIs,t
drriUed at the point seith a force already
melting array far short Of the Hst on
paper, beaten a0ih heat, hunger, thirst
and long march, and surprised on both
TANKS 6y the sudden olHp0urings Of TaiLlVGys.
While this has occurred in Virginia, almost
within sight of Washington, column oi
eight thousand Federalists, advancing
against foe thrice theit number has met
with the same fate, no doubt for much the
same reasons, at Springfield, four or five
hundred miles to the West-as if in order to
apdTn the Northern States that Uhat has hap
pened is no accident, no result Of peculiar cir.
cumStances or personal failure, but by inevit-
able rule.
There is only one enterprise ,Ohich can be
compared to this, and that is the Frat Napo-
Leon'S gigantic, but infatuated, attempt upon
Russia. That was case of great political
alliance, as grand as Federal Union, com
prising the best, the wealthiest, and the mos
populous part, and the best soldiers on thu
Continent of Europe, advancing into terri
tory, the sparse and poor population Of which
, scarcely surpassed that of the invading host
Winter might be the immediate cause, but i
was also the apology of the tremendous rou
that ensued IF any one will attempt to com
> pare the means of the Federalists with thos
, of Napoleon, he will find them far inferio
in every respect; aVhile there is no doubt tha
the Southern States are .tar more able TO de
fend every point, eUeTy position, every line Il
their territory, than the Russians ,Oers in theirs
4 They have mountainous ranges instead O
steppes; thev have population accustome,
: to carry arms, and emily too glad to us
o them; they have railways, and abundance Q
i food and other necessaTies Of lOdr.
: They are evidently superior IN general
ship, and in the social organization be;
. adapted for war. The result is that thus ia
It they have shown they can dispute ever
= inch, and keep the invader always undt
the apprehension of being either outf1anke
or driven back upon his own capita
= Against all this it can only be said that tn
i Northern States have the preponderance
% white men, in money and in credit. Thes
would indeed be important considerations
the Southern States were invading tn
is Northern, and seriously preparing to driV
n every armed Northerner into the st. Law
"a renee. They would be important if tn
were the ordinary case of two countries {
= war with one another. But 1t is not. III
l- Northerners are engaged in the reduction
5e the Southerners. They are acting on Il
"A offensive against foe which, on its oW
~ land, is content to act on the defensive, O.
cepting only that, should the opportunit
c. occur, it would advance its line of defense
n- include the capital.
:. Do the Northern States really b
AZ long to the New World, or are they only
IN bit of the Old World, Nth all its pride,
u bigotry, and is tyranny, stranded on the We'
of eTn shore of the Atlantic? The advice '
give them is what they have taught us
ne fore, and we only say TO them, as many
at son may say to his father, Practice VIII
D. you teach.n Let the Northern States "dccs
4. the situation" as aee did eighty years ago up
their oacn soil; as Austria did ttgo years a
ne al VILldfTdncd and Zurich.
er The advice we offer is only what t
et Americans have given to all the world: II
=. a hank of their own cotton--a pipe of the
VI own tobacco. Let them consider what tn
can do, and what neither they nor all t
world can do. At present they are on
av Qiving a triumph 10 many a foe, for there's
- 1 a circle of old absolutSt statesmen and dip
on mats qoho do not read the story OF their dl
We cuI6es and TeUerSes Nth bitter smile. Th
nd will hear with at least respect, perhaps vi
in disappointment, that the North and Sou
he have agreed to part friends.
no We are fairly entitled 70 say that on
TO- one point has the model Government OF {
srel advanced politicians been found to supp'