Washington telegraph., 1862-01-22
NO.. 2.

THE GRAND ARMY OF THE Potomac
AND Irs You've NAPOLEON" The
London Mornin. Advertiser strips the
young war god' now commanding tho
great Yiukee army, of some Of his fuss
and feathers, in the following eiegan.
style:
The iuaction Of the army before Wash.
ington must have disappointed America
a. il has astonished all Europe We know
not the force Of that army; il may be, it
probably has been, greatly exaggerated.
1t i, often talked of as 10000 or 220.-
.OJ0. or 250,0 men. l. may be, practl-
lly, less than half Of the smallest of
ese numbers-it may be only $4,000.
st II, to Europe, it j. a new. and strange
sight to see army Of even $4,000 men,
cDm ,ndcd by young and aspiring gen.
orAl, lying for a whole month in state
Of absolute ilactinn, with the enemy i'm
m ediately in its front The Americans
ars f. Of imagining that IN Gen. Me-
u ,llan they have found another Ndpo>
leon.
Bat it was not after this fashion that
Napoleon conducted his first campaign.
When he set forth at the head of force
Of about one half Of SO, 900 men, he said.
:. In one month | shall be at Milan or
| back in Paris" And he kept hi= word.
:. But The American army consists of new
levies" Well, aud SO does The army on
| the other i lie. And fully one-half of
| Weliington's little army Of 67 900 men at
| Waterloo consisted of English and Ger
4 man militia, who bad never before seen
| battle field. Our trans atlantic brethren
must be aware OF these facts, and must
feel as we have said, disappointed at an
inactiJu and truitless waste of money
which has astonished all Europe. But
the new course which they have just
adopted must lead, we suppose, to some
Immediate aud important results A large
f:et. carrying some 20 900 soldiers, has
Just Irlt New York for some port in the
SJu'h-problbIy for New Orleans; and
now with their usual sanguine antIcipa-
tiuns, We are assured that the Mississippi
viii be in the possession of the United
States government in November, and that
cotton will b. loading in that for Liver
| pool long before Christmas.
1t will be nothing at all surprising if
the former part Of this anticipation should
be realized. Apparently the strength of
the armament sent forth is far greater
than the Southern Government can bs
prepared to resist at any single point.
Hence to hear that New Orleans has been
bUmblrded and taken need not surprise
~ one But il does not follow, a. san
guine New Workers may imagine, that
this first success will end the var About
fifty years agp England sent forth an ar
manent, and seized the island OF VAL
cheren, in the Scheldt. BIT, after staying
there three months, the troops re-e'n 5arked
ami came home again, bringing with them
.'the Waichercn fever" La 1854 a
united force Of English and French landed
IN Sebastopol; but many weary month
passed over. and fully 10000 men were
I buried in the trenches, before the whole
power Of England and France could OBJ.
tain possession of so much as one half of
the beleagued town.
ln lol2 the French marched, almost
unopposed, into the ancient capital Of
Russia; but after staying there two or thres
months, they we're glad enough to decamp,
aud did not succeed 10 carrying back
even one-fourth part of their army into
Poland. So wise was the warning given
Of old, "Let not him who is only putting
on his armor boast as If he were putting
it off" The expedition to New Orleans
will succeed fully and finally, II the
Southern Confederacy are not thoroughly
in earnest, but nothing else. All that We
can clearly see is that if the Southern
States are really in earnest, il is impossible
fur the North to obtain any success worth
having Ten millions Of people may be
kept in subjugation By twenty millions;
but the task Of keeping them down IS
terrible one, and "the game is not worth
the candle" As Mr.. Smith o Brien re-
marked the other day, "the Southern
States occupy territory larger than the
continent Of Europe" and it would rc-
quire an army of 100000 men to hold
such territory by military power. And
can such work, accomplished by such
means, b, made to agree with republican