New-York daily tribune., 1862-11-05
PgoM CArEO AM MELLOW.
Ncc.ses iD Cniro-N' Ailnre of Cavalry
The .pain1.
Canespondenos of The N / ,,ih,ns

4,
CAro, Oct q, 1892.
To gather early e,ys Of battles ia important. TO !
give the results .equslly important In the hurry
Sf events man 8 have tims, and many a'e incoHi,
petent 10 re- q 60 much az we are permitted 10 ieao
OF the inV are. Few modern wars have emp'oyeu 81
many en, or required such large means nome nave
bes'a 10 bitter as this. The Rebels hafe oeeh ue'
Sested az other armies defeated, seNersi u'loS
around Cornth. They are getting reaoy !" give
battle aga,. II will come soon NO 0'ler nlouei"
war could last so long, because nothing woui oe III
d;snnte no valuable as what has been already de-
.,waroa The reason for this is, that a thing
>b;ch ,,,n vsns more than their lives Is ~ Jeop-
ardy. This is not property or houses OF lahdsi
!, "a not even poltcal rights. When that by which
most of the homes OF a whole people are made com
Portable Is taken away, the family relation, strong
Or than any Government, is in danger. people
who might fight for nothing else wcnlt fight for
this. IL is true that they commenced to pull TINS
calamity down on themselves; but this fact is now
puimportant III view Of the awful drama about 10
he presented. This is the breaking mp OF society
Ii has ALREADY commenced.
There are at leGst 900 negroes in Cairo who are
women aud children. Their men are in Cornth,
working on the fortihcations These persons are III
q cad condition. They are housed in barracks OUT
aide of the town. Their clothing is thin and ragged;
most Of them have shoes. They PICK mp their
wood; it s scarce; and they bring their water good
half mile from the river. They have had the small
pox and other diseases. If Government does NOT
econ provide for These people such suffering will take
place that q tale OF horror will be handed down
Through all ages. Itis impossibetor private charity
20 relieve them. Happy are they who have found
homes with farmers IN the lntenor 1here one secs
accomplished young ladies', and as handsome as our
wives ever were, teaching these poor creatures 10
read More would be provided for II so many Dem
oersts had not the negroDhoo1G. Ihey are oesiue
themselves when they a negro. Some time lt VII
be explained why these men are SO inlaunOus' "o
In addition, several hundred men are employed on
the levee and in Offices and houses OF the town.
The most that one hears SAID against tnem Isl
Once in a while you'll find q niger good to
work" lOf the people of the South say, rom
long ACQUAINTANCE: Once in a greqt whi!e you VIII
find q white man good TO work hear many VINO
employ the negro say that they hud no anlt IN hiu
Most of them are from Mississippi and Alabama.
Something so0p must he done for these people. II
IL showing now. II is not proper 70 take masses
into the North. In some places II viii not be per-
uitted Ii j. were proper, if the people would per-
init It, there is work for only part Ihe Des. thlug
20 do will appear from statement OF d uhereht
Government has rented farm Of 400 or 500 acres
near Mattoon in this State and thither It sending
great numbers of cavalry horses for the purpose OIL
giving them flesh. Almost any day one may zee a
boat-oad of horses brought from the South, and they
have the least flesh them that they can have and
vet walk. Most Of them are good horses for their
eyes are bright; an unsOund horse has duii eye.
They 60 aboard the cars, II they knew they were
bound 10 q land of plenty More than year since
stated in this correspondence that there no clover
or grass in the South. There is not another civil
lied country on the globe where the land naturally
is 40 deficient grass the cotton regions, ana
certainly none where the people have done 60 little
70 supply the want. AS a substitute the blades Of
corn are pulled and cured in August and September,
and all 'sbucks," which l think worthless
saved OF this fodder there has never been sup
ply. Besides immense Quantities of coarse grain,
thousands Of tuns of bay end straw formerly were
shipped South. Our cavalry ID wholly supplied from
from the North. Hay is taken there with much diff
Guilty for is bulky such rivers and railroad
rontes as we command. l. is almost impossible 70
take much into the interior; if il is started it is likely
10 be burned and the destruction OF forage trains
common event. A hundred pounds OF hay in almost
any Of our armies is worth as much as hundred
pounds Of four-sometimes, IN some emergencies,
Il is worth It's weight 10 gold After three days, q
horse without fodder fails, in week be Ia nearly
WORTHLESS particularly II in action.
OF course the Rebel cavalry suffers in the same
xvay: they have remedy-It cannot last. When
tbeir horses give out they supply themselves from
the planters stables. Every mans horse Is at their
command. Il is no longer question whether one is
for the North or the SOuth-it is whether be has
horse. If the war is vigorously prosecuted through
the Winter, the cavalry service must, 10 great
tent, be given up. If we attempt TO sustain 1t We
many as we do, they have not 30 many TO lose.
They, too must give up cavalry, more for tho want
Of horses than fodder, though this is scarcer than
for their corn crop, always poor was poorer
this year than ever.
airy so that operate in the interior Of large
country Z
If the war lasts into the new year, the South
Will have another class Of men in the fcld.
IL will be Of men who no longer will
hay
and whose families, once opulent, viii be in pow.
err They will show what fighting is. Heavens
Can we not what Is coming, and VIII not
prepare ourselves? Yes, what shall We have in
place Of cavalry
Now one Of two things must come 70 pass, and
ths before are much older. Either Tie insane
bowngs Of blind towards must cease, and we get
ready to meet the fighting soon 10 be on hand, not
fighting only, but invasions along whole borders,
OF starving, murderOus, and desperate men, or we
must submit to make peace, which means, to
acknowledge ourselves conquered: II means more.
We give up the Mississippi and West Virginia, and
ell Of Tennessee aud Kentucky, too, and OF course,
Mexico IL means that we transmit 10 our children
other wars for c0wardce
We think we understand this now, but we DO not,
nor will We till we see that we have been driven
step by step, till at last have laid hands upon
society iNeh Ii cancer IS not cured, 1t destroys
tbc whols body.
We can supply the place Of cavalry with q force
which will De better than cavalry Ii can subsist
where borses will die; it will go where horse can
not find footing or a way; 1t will know the ground
better than the men Of either army ever did or
Can know IT.
Answer this question: What people under the
sun, Greek or Roman, ancient or modern, white or
coored, ever achieved their independence, or de-
serred it, without fighting for itl And this DO
you 80 little value your life your son lie that
you prefer to shed your hearts blood on The battle
held rather than that black man should shed his
IL you do, such dsinterestedness has not been seen
eince the Crueifxion.
I'M.