The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1862-07-18

and Resources-The Rebelii0A Must aad
VIII be Put Down.
We can, we must, and we will put down this
rebellion. We have the forces and the resources
in the greatest abundance for the work, and the
work will be done.
The city Of New York has just spoken TO this
effect, and is preparing to act accordingly, and
yet New York is under q cloud. The COM
plexion Of Wall street is blue. From the heights
of confidence, bulls, bears, spread eagles, lame
ducks and all, seem to be foundering in the
Chickahominy swamp. A suspicion is abroad
that long and exhausting struggle is before us,
and that in view of the threats of foreign inter-
vention the final issue il enveloped in gloom.
Some Of our returned army officers shake
their heads mysteriously, members OF Con-
gress speak and write Is II the Cartha-
genians were at the gates Of Rome. Even our
cool, clear headed and courageous Secretary Of
State has spoken at length somewhat despond-
ingly. But, as he thus speaks to stir up the
energies Of our people, We can excuse him. We
think, however that this has gone far enough,
| and that, Is our loyal States and people are
now wide awake, and have resolved to do their
utmost in the service of the government, it is
our duty to show them that the complete
triumph Of the Union will be their glorious re-
| ward, and that there can be mo such word as
fail" Intervention or no Intervention from
| abroad.
In support Of this unqualified proposition
Of inevitable success against all the
powers Of the rebellion and all con-
tingenciss Of foreign assistance, we sub
| NIT, first, to the attention Of the reader
| the table in another part Of this paper, exhi-
| biting the white population and the militia
| force Of the several States of the Union, di-
vided into the two classes Of loyal and rebel
| lious States. Thus ii will be seen that, leaving
| out Tennessee as a State ct least neutralzed
| by our armed occupation, the white population
| Of the loyal portion Of the Union against the
rebeilious sectlon is as twenty-ons millions
against six millions, or nine millions including
the three millions Of African slaves in the States
adhering to this rebellion.
Next as to the militia The sum total within
the government Of the rebellion, as it is now
curtailed, on the white basis, is, in round num-
bers, half a million Of men, while the aggregate
Of the loyal States Territories, DC, is hard upon
three millions Of men. Counting in the blacks,
the militia of the rebel States may be stretched
to seven hundred thousand men; but even
upon this computation the militia force
Of the loyal States Is three times
IS strong. The rebels at this day, under
their sweeping CONSUMPTION act, have all
| their available militia in the field while we
| have reserved force among our loyal people
| Of two millions Of men from which to strength
en- our army, East and West JEFF. Davis and
his confederates stole march upon as at Rich
| monl, in bringing up the cream Of Beauregard's
| army from Corin.h, and the whole column OF
Jackson from the valley Of Virginia, while the
Union forces opposed to them were left in the
background; but this Is bit Of desperate strate-
gy which, though partially successful the Sc
| cond time, can hardly be perpetrated again.
| In the next place, our navy, against this re-
bellion, is equal at this moment to al army of
three hundred thousand men. Nay, we are sure
That lalf million Of men on land would not
begin to do the work which has been
accomplished, and which is now in the
hands Of our navy. In this strong
over this rebellion is absolute, undisputcd and
irresistible. Within the next three months the
additions to our active war vessels will be
| equal to two hundred thousand additional men
to our army. The power Of our gunboats may
be estimated from the fact that with tie
presence Of half dozen Of them in front of
New Orleans that rebellious city with popu-
lation Of one hundred and fifty thousand souls
was talon, and is held by General Butler under
martial law with a mere corporalis guard.
Our blockade, financially, acts with suiyo-
eating pressure upon the rebellion. The one
hundred and Fifty millions year Of Southern
exports, for which our rebeliors States re-
ceived in exchange from the North large pro-
portion Of their provisions, and from the North
and Europe nearly every article Of mapufac-
ture, great and small, required by said States.
including dry goods, clothes, hats. shoes, farm
ing implements, firearms, gunpowdcr, cor-
fee, tea, salt, medicines, &c, are all cut
of by our blockads. To supply these
deficiencies now, in their crude attempts Al
home manufactures, very considerable nor.
ton Of the most intelligent. OF tho able bodied
white men Of the South are necessarily retain.
ed at home How far they succeed In supply
ing the places Of imported or Northern articles
excluded by our blockade We may Judge from
th. ragged condition of the rebel soldiers fall
ing into our hands, and from the starving con-
dtion Of Southern rebel communities falling
under our protection
We have the FREQ range Of the worlds COM
.-ercs; and in manufactures, especially in the
e,r,oc.- foundries and workshops devoted 20
tbo r,,rnosea ,.fvsr, our resources are as those
Of Massachusetts AGAINST South Carolina, or as
Eve hundred TO one. We say, therefore, that
this rebellion cannot stand-tast II must and
~ !, -. sox~r vyo h.l;avo thax IL will be