Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1862-06-03
THE oAprURE OF NEW ORLEANS.
TIE BRITISH PRTss on THE IyESr AND IrS oossE
QUEEcKs

lOnh VI NEW NhhH@4S'
TIE BRITISH PRFss on THE IvEsr AND Irs coSsE'
QUEEcKs.
[Prem the london Times, Nay Is
Tie spirit in which the fall Of New Orleans has been
met BY the Southern pres is of hercs defiance The
great fact seems 10 be that thirteen gunboats have sue
oeeded in getting up the river TO the city, When TINS
had happened the rest matter oil course. deneral
Lowell aud his garrison could not get at these gunboau
but the gurboats could get General Lowell and more
over could set the city fire. The foreign vessesoi-
war upon the spot very naturally protested sga St the
exercise Of this latter power, and Gen. Love ana DIS
garrison went forth from position IN which they couu
be of no further USE New Orleans doubt would have
captuated or surrendered have done anything which
| was necessary to be done in order to avoid being
sheed but there no one to take possession The
angry zens profess TO hope that some OF Their own
gunboets may down and relieve them from the thir
teen small furies that tod them in such deadly terror
But the simple truth is that New Orleans has aiOTsd t.
self to be placed at the mercy Of the federal fleet IL
has aL0avs been ety of "rCpiis" and with such per-
suns buster is too apt to take the place OF Vaorous
deeds. Il is in the position OF waiting icr the
arrival of hostile garrison, in order that it may sur
/ render.
If words in America always represented facts, the fall
of this city would be OF more importance than the
fall of any common fort upon the coast The Southern
press is completely Of this opinion Ii most clearly per-
cives how the fact capable Of being made an advan
tage rather than boS ID the Southern cause. lkle
thew say q great Confederate army released fronfsu
awkward aud ndeensibe position; it is Federal army
shut up prison, where 1t must melt away from vel
low fever t is city, useless because blockaded, re-
moved from the catalogue Of Confederate embarrass
meuts II might judge from the sacknsss with which
the city has been defended give some eredence
70 the aft cted compacency with which they contemplate
its loss But il cannot be pleasant thing TO lose the
commercial capital of the South, aud still less to lose it
in this nelorous manner. II ia vain to deny that the
possession of New Orleans is such loss to the South
cnull he maintained by the Federal
| er for an indefinite time the South iselt, great
"A il is must pine end dwindle, and 60 back
| to its natural state Of tor s. aud swamp. l. Is
vain to say that force holding that city, and su
rreme wherever boat SWIM cannot spread devssta
lion far abroad and ruin all the classes which depend
upon pref derived from without To do the Southern
ere Justice they appear BvnCd at least iactty, TO ad
nit gr,ae part OF ths But they say they accept the
sacrifice tor the moment and deny the federal power to
continue the pressure beyond brief space They say
that successive garrisons will occupy the city, and in
succession be deposited in its cemeteries, aud
that renforcements Of sailors will come only TO follow
their comrades sailors burial in the waters OF the
Mississippi They say that, penetrate where they may,
the will be regarded buccaneers and brgaud
who may kill and plumber where they CO. but behind
whom a hostile population will always close up, shooting
down their sragglsrs harassng their communications
cutting their telegraph vres, and watching every op
portuuly for their destruction. They pnt already to
Immense quantities" of cotton and tobacco burnt and
long since formed. Their weakness they say-and they
truly ssy-Cxtends only TO a shot distance from
the sea- or lake, nayigabll river, and they point
10 million Of square miles which are not thus dom
mated and ask how lie possible that these can be sub
dusd
Much Of this is very true Blu! the question remains
whether the SouGheruers have the constancy 10 endure
these terrible sufferngs rather than give in. n they
have then Of course they can be conquered There
are histories without end of nations deserving their
coasts leaving their rich plains retiring from their riv.
ers holding their in their mountains and retaining
their Independence last and If the Southerners have
but the endurance OF which it would be easy to cite
hundred instances, they mag well laugh the idea oil sub
iugatiou TO Ecorn. But they have sonttimsf td'Esd
so lo.dlv and 5etsi Jstby-as in this case Of New
Orlesus-thgt not csra'n that words really do
mean facts Il ia impossible to deny what the Southern
press says-that they have gseat front Of battle still
unbroken These BsaureeaGd at CoTnth with great
army which has shown il can fight, ard which he has
shown himself able lead Tuere is Johnston face to
face with Mcclellan at Yorktown. There is Jackson IN
t5e valley of the Mississippi There other great bo
dies OF troops iu Georgia and South Carolina.
try cano De said be conquered which has armies such
A. these amounting as il s asserted to 400 600 men IN the
field Again lhey haze tle kerrimac, which Tor the mo-
ment holds tbs command OF the little sphere in which she
moves II at any moment the genius OF great general
were de yeoped 10 any Of these commsAs tue whole for
tune of the war might, doubt b. yet reversed But
there Is no decisive genius either side. Beauregard
CINE near to it, bu. he was day TOO late at Cornth
EachaAsn quite up 10 for that one moment when
he took o. the Aerr-sc, but he wounded. That
power of welding divisions Of ro9pc G Cyclops welds
his hammer aud striking blow after bog with them in
sunrrg succession has not been revealed 10 the kmeri
can generals. IL il true that tho has shoVn that
mere land armies are useless against armies supported
by sunboats But the Southtruors soy that ason IL
coming Nhel .be Ohio the Tennessee, aud the Cumbar-
land rivers will be shallow for navigation and when
the must terrible and rresJdble the South have
! vii be removed from them. Ia the mi5s. OF their
yeEses they still indulge il dreams Of victory. l.
be only loud taking but Il may also be the resolve
which Rome sLOsej when Hannibal near her gates
Oar correspondence iJon New York ecems TO iotlmae
that the enemies Of the South give full credit Tor spirit
| I, holi on and although the mob elamom that "Ghe
beginning # the end come" the public mind ia
ing round 70 views of peace. II the American people
we're not upon all political matters the most Ignorant in
the world-f they were not ike tyrant told only what
Il pleasant and if they listened TO what is unpeas
! anly true-we should have more immediate hope Of
this But il the tax-gltherer ever should go round,
/ rarhs ns no will be gchoOlmastcr TO them.