The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1862-06-13

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The Unf0n-The Absurdities or Southern
Alienation and an Endless Guerilla
War.
The British aristocracy have never found
anything to admire but everything to detest, in
the republican institutions of the United States
of America. Between the feudal privileges of
a ruling class and the American doctrine OF
popular sovereignty there is ian irrepressible
conflict" going on in Europe, which will not
end until the barons or the people are finally
put down. Hence the strong secession sympa-
thies of England's aristocracy in reference to
this rebellion. Hence the jealous, persistent,
INSCRIPTIONS and shameless efforts Of the news
paper organs of this feudal English aristocracy
to "give aid and comfort" 20 jeff Davis and
his hopeless cause.
Taking the London Times as the leading or
gan Of its unprincipled class, mark how like .
paid advocate it has stuck to the fortunes of
Davis. Thus, our victory at Cape Hatteras
amounted to nothing; Port Royal put us
in possession Of only a few uninhabited
and miasmatio sea islands Roanoke Island
only admitted us into region of impossible
swamps Fort Donelson was a misfortune to
the Southern Confederates, but nothing very
serious the loss of Nashville was to be re-
GREETED, but Nashville was place of secondary
Importance the rebel evacuation of Manassas
was mastery military movement; the iron
clad ship fight in Hampton Roads showed that
the Merrimac was worth dozen Monitors
the repeated escapes of the steamer Nashville
and other rebel craft, through our blockading
squadrons proved our Southern blockade
mockery and nuisance the battle at Pitts
burg Landing was splendid Confederate vic
tory, from which it was manifest that the
armies of the Southern confederacy could
never be conquered; and so on until the news
was received in England of our capture Of New
Orleans and of Norfolk, and of the blowing
up of the Merrimac by the rebels to save her
from capture.
But what says this aforesaid jealous and in
defatigable British organ Of JEFF Davis to all
this? It is forced to the conclusion that the
naval establishment of Davis has been destroyed,
and that his armies are destined to 60 to the
wall but then We are told that, as there is not
a vestige Of Union sentiment in the South
that as the Southern people, in their
implacable and universal hostility, are
forever alienated from the Union-the
destruction Of their regular armies will
only be followed by the most formidable que
rilla war in the history of mankind-a guerilla
war under which, including the burning Of
Southern cotton, tobacco, corn, rice and sugar,
the South will never be subjugated to recog-
milton Of the federal government.
Such are the latest excuses and encourage
ments which the secession organs Of the
British aristocracy have to offer in behalf of
the sinking cause of this rebellion. They are,
however, only the echoes of the most reckless
and desperate of the secession journals and fire.
gard, first, to a guerilla war. Our latest re-
ports from Western Virginia, from Tennss-
see, and from some portions of the wild noun
tain districts of Kentucky, show that the rebel
guerillas in those quarters are pretty active.
But these are only the bands Of marauders
which hang upon the tanks Of great pro-
tecting armies. The army of Beauregard,
though driven of from Corinth, demo-
rallied. impoverished and greatly reduced
from assertions and detachments captured by
our forces, is still sufficiently strong to require
the special attention of General Halleck, and
hence the appearance of these outside guerilla
bands. With the dispersion Of Beauregards
hos uil
as they disappeared from the banks Of the
Potomac with the rebel evacuation of Manas-
sas, and as they disappeared from Missouri with
the expulsion Of the army Of Price.
So, with the capture or dispersion Of the rebel
army of Richmond the guerillas who are
now operating within supporting distance Of it
will vanish; for against an overwhelming force
in pursuit Of them they will have no longer q
place Of refuge to fall back upon. Better
still, the State being irretrevably lost to
JEFF. Davis, there will be no longer any
object or compensation for q guerilla war
fare on the part of the local population;
and the rebel troops from other States
will cease to have any interest in guerilla
war in Virginia with the restoration of the
State to the victorious arms of the Union. The
war will end there, guerillas and all, with our
occupation of Richmond; for the Virginia rebel
troops still adhering to the fortunes of Davis,
will follow his retreating forces into other
States, after the manner Of the intractable
fighting rebels Of Missouri, Kentucky and Ten
nessee. Thus our Union army will capture or
drive before it out of the country all the incu-
rable fighting elements Of this rebellion, so
that the States in the wake Of our advancing
troops will be relieved Of all those active and
turbulent rebel chiefs required for guerilla
purposes. They will follow their main army
to save themselves, or be reduced to submis-
sion from sheer necessity or the pressure Of
public opinion.
Nsxt. with regard 70 the Union sentiment Of