The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1862-08-14
NUMBER 10,

I said nothing of it to any one; no one would
have believed me. You know now, sir, what
| must have suffered and from what anguish
your knife relieved me Scarcely had the
second wound healed, however, when the pain
came anew. For the third time it now racks
me and I have not the strength TO endure it
llopger. In an hour l will say farewell to
earth Only the thought that since she has
been avenged here on earth, she will forgive
me on the other side, gives me ray Of conso-
lation.
II thank you for your heartfelt sympathy,
and for your aid. God bless you -
The Prospects of the WAR Automatically
+ Stated.
From the New Yo:k Post
If the friends of the Union would but prose.
cute the war with the same degree of spirit and
energy as the rebels, and with the same deter
mination to avail themselves of all the resourc-
es within their reach, they might overwhelm
aud smother the traitors by mere force of num-
Ibers,
There are few, we think, who give them
selves the trouble to calculate how vast is the
dispropor,ion between the rebel population and
that of those parts of the county which ad-
| here TO the Union, and from how small num-
ber comparatively, the rebellion is obliged to
draw its armies. The great wonder is, that
they have held us at bay SO long when the odds
are so vastly against them
| When we speak of the white population of
the slave States, we give it rs amounting to a
little more than eight millions. But Tor this
Eamount are to be deducted the entire popuIa-
ton of Delaware, Maryland, Missouri and
| Kentucky with the western half Of Virginia
and the western half of Tennessee, making al
together somewhat over three millions and a
half of white population, and leaving to the
rebels scarcely more than four millions six
| hundred, as the basis OF their army. 1t would
require skill scarcely short of magic TO OBJ
! tain from this population the immense armies
with which rumor credits the rebels--the NIGH
ty hosts which were said to have been gathered
at Yorktown; the still mightier which were
thought to have assembled fer the defense of.
Richmond; the great army under Deauregard
at Coriuth; the seventy thousand men under
Stonewall jackson i'll the Valley OF the Shen-
andoah; the army looming large III the distance
which keeps US from the assault OF Charleston;
the troops which haunted the march of General
Curtis in Arkansas, along with those which
are kept on foot to repel our advance at diff
ferent points of the Georgia and Florida coasts,
and along the sea shore Of Alabama and Texas
and the guerrilla parties which intest the Dor
der States composed of course, OF able bodied
men, or they would be incapable of the ex-
ploits which are attributed to them
A vast deal of what is said concerning the
strength Of the rebel armies is most certainly
exaggeratlon but these stores are the more
readily believed on account OF che pertnacity
with Which their leaders have kept up the CON
lest and the undiscouraged front which they
continue to show to the world.
Meanwhile, we count nineteen millions as
the population of the Northern States from
which to recruit our armies. To these must
be added the four loyal States, with half of
Virginia and half of Tennessee These have
already their soldiers into the field to fight
for the Union. They would swell the popula-
ton of the great loyal region to between % and
% milIions-as near may be. five to one in
comparison with the inhabitants ct the 'ebe,
district If they can raise Il hundred thousand
men, we can meet them with half Il million. ii
they can send into the field two hundred and
fifty thousand men, simple af:hnhetlcal OPP
Grafton will show that we, recruiting our army
III the same proportion, can mud a million ana
quarter. II they lose their soldiers in the
same proportion hat we do-and the records
show that their losses largely eIseya4 -'uFs-vve
must in short time annihilate, not only their
present army, but the whole gene alton from
which their recruits are drawn. We took the
field with 600 600; by vafiou- casualties by
death in the field and death IN ihe hospitals,
and by disabilities from sickness and wounds,
they are reduced TO 5000 If the rebels
brought against u5 500 600 soldiers they must
be reduced by this time to 100000 The whole
militia OF the region now in rebellion against
us amounts to but $50, J20, according to the
statistics OF The United States Blue Book
Another such campaign, aid that militia is
swept from the face OF the aarlh-swept as
clean as ever whirlwnd swept throshing
floor. We could deal with them the rebels
attempted 10 deal with the right flank of Nc
Cleians army, whom, knowing aat it was be-
y0nd the reach of reinlorcements. they threw
upon it one fresh detachment alter another in
the hope of cutting it in pieces ~ repeated as
sauts In that case the assaiiIts were beat
en- back by the cool and steady courage Of curl
troops, but it is manifest thar il lac onset had
been once twice more renewed our troops
would have been destroyed The destruction
OF the rebel hosts, he absolute humiliation of
all their population capable OF bearing arms, is
therefore, as the cant phase Is, simply "aI
question Of time;' nor, if We carry on The war
with energy, can the time be far distant.
1t will be said, Of course, that This is cold
booded calculation, and we acknowledge that
it is so-but it is fol ced upon IL by the neces-
sity of conforming our expec atoms 10 the man
ner in which the war has hi herto been con
Quoted There is yet one immense resource
in reserve, which we have never touched, ana
which would tend as effectually 10 the extirpa-
ton Of the rebellion as the raising OF another
half million soldiers. Deprive the slavohoId-
er8 Of their work people, and they are stranded
at once a whale on dry ground Is NOT more
helpless Sever the laboring race at the
South from the race who make war and bring
them over to our side, put them on their mas
ters' plantations, and arm them to defend the
soil, which they ill, and the rebellion will be
at its latest gasp; it will no more be able to
breathe than a rat in exhausted receiver
The entire people of the free States are begin
ming to see this in clearer light, ana the de-|
ma1d for putting it in execution will soon be
SO universal and so vehement that the Govern
ment, drawn along by the irresistible current
of public opinion, will be forced to yield
Then the difficulties which perplex so many OF
our statesmen viii vanish. Where there IS