The New York herald., 1862-01-10

the higher ATTITUDES where ths SUMS rays less
tca and fevers less prevalent and where the hus
bandry required for the profitable culture of the cereals
and the intelligence required by the mechanic arts de-
manded he labor OF whites the unceasing streams Of
emigration from Europe and the prolific activity Of
tive generation had populated the country with hardy
chanics.
In the Southern States, where the climate was too
warm for white labor and where those staples pro-
dnced which can only be grown in regions generave Of
levers and congestons apparently miraculous series
OF events had provided Of laborers four millions in
number better fitted by for bondage than free
dom, and so physically endowed as while capable Of Ia
boring actively in the fields under the rays Of the SUM-
be proof in great measure against the diseases which
flourish SIDE BY side with cotton tobacco and rice TO
remove this system Of labor from the Southern States
would be to spread ruin and desolaton universally
the land. The wholesale removal Of white labor from
Northern fields and workshops and the substitution in
their place of blacks coolies would not work
complete desolaton in that busy and prosperous section
than the general emancipation the
negroes Of the South would effect in this.
Supposng, therefore, the North to have accomplished
its two cherished objects Of subugating the South and
oolonizing M backs-which could be done only at cost
0 some four thousand millions Of dollars and ~
OF thousande 0f the lives OF those white lab0rers who
employed 10 her NEEDS and workshops, would DO far
more profitable to her than whom employed In her
mes--st after all, sho would have conquered coun
Try not worth half its cost even Ia treasure saying no.
thing oE The whole property Of the North would be
under perpeuaax for four thousand millions of dollars
many VI her best lives will have besn sacrificed and the
public taxes sadded upon ner people would be rendered
those hordes Of that have heretofore brought
he much wesit
shs will havo obtained country, tho larger portion Of
which she would bs incapable u converting into agrcu
iura value which would soon grow up IN Sansbrake and
Jungle to become the nursery again Of agaOrs torra
pns rattesnakcs, foxes and panthcrs. Only such por
tons Of the country lie high in latitude around the
mountain bases admitting OF grain culture and grazing
could be turned to any she would have lost large
porton OF the labor necessary for the thorough cuva
ton oven OF the Northern States and the burhen Of the
m q nav
ments OF immigrants sufficient in number to take the
place OF negroes in Southern cotton fields, If this
substitution should not be prevented by climate
II is clear that this scheme Of Southern conquest would
unlike those usually engaged in BY the Yankees turn out
y like that Of farmer who, already possessing large
farm not yet fully stocked with aborers, and needing
many improvements should give two prices for another
arm larger than his own. without fences, improvements
furniture OF Sort with possibility of procuring
labor to oy upon it, going in debt for the entire pur
chase and morgagng both places for the purchase
ney. In ninety nino out Of hundred such
ure would cost the farmer all he worth and leave
him, after the first serious financial reverse, the
owner Of no farm at all. But the folly of such
would be no greater than that into which the whole
North is rushing with blind fury Taking the most
them success in subugang the South, tho scheme they
are engaged in is scheme Of madness. But as
there is just Providence which rules the affairs Of men,
and as sure as there patriotic in the South
pablo OF striking many such blows those striken At
Manassas they will not conquer the South. In view Of
that result what then shall be said Of their present
tanly the most runous speculation that Yankees ever
ventured into.
DIFFICULTIES OF INVADING THE sOCrH-PHYsIOLoGI-
CAL FACTS.
From the Richmond Examiner, JAM 3.
The difficulties Of invasion increase in gcomercal ratio
with the distance also increases in geometrcal
impedment acts with tremendous power against the
enemy Tho slow progress which has been made by his
armies seems already to have established the proposition
that invasion be effected all by regular marches
An invading army Of magnitude cannot penetrate
try barely provided with provisions the South
cept by slow movement fortifying as it moves.
European warfare furnishes no criterion for military
operations this c0nnont There the country is Dense
ly populated and abounds in provisions at every STOP
here, too the agricultural laboring population
combaants and not visited with the penalties Of
They humaaey and prudently left to till their fields
and gather their harvcsts In the midst OF fragrant
much credit to be allowed to modern humanity
this for, any other policy pursued, the
great poeDtaes who conduct the wars would be as
able to their armies as Buell. Is found unable to
Lis in Kentucky has been expected of him for several
weeks past.
As our agriculture is not sufficiently thorough in the
South productive to admit the passage Of armies
sparsey populated domain, roads for the
most part mere natural paths by use and not by
heavy outays OF money aud labor. They not in
Europe. finely paved streets, hard and 9th mar
BILE floor For the greater part Of the year they
lit for navigation than travel and it unfre iucntly
happened in the last that army horses and
mules have sunk down in the highways AMI drowned in
the mud. To compare European campaigning to Ame-
rcan to compare things totally unlike in all their cir
cumsancts.
The i'm PIGMENTS used in modern warfare add much TO
the diculty OF transporting army Tho chief mple.
nent relied is tie cannon and tho batteries required
for few brgades, fifteen or twenty thousand troops
will suffice in running ovor them, to ruin the best OF
u Add to the wear and tear caused by these
ha prod cod By oil the wheels teams necessary for
the ansporta,ion OF twenty regiments, aud IL is at
in how wretchcd state the passage Of small
will leave the roads OF this county. The effort to
army of nrty o. hundred Thousand
considerable distances in any OF the southern regions is
Hercueanand wc have not yet II made with
success by the Yankees In The prog ess OF the
There i'm portant physiological fact TO be recol-
lected also in connection with this subject For
hit we'll and long they must not have before undergone
fatigue and loss OF II army equired to rs,
early and march several hours II is physical mpossib
y them exhibit any length Of time, the proper
the field. On the morning II Manassas the federal
army required 10 at three O'Clock, der fo!igng
presc aay an 90 70 "'rsem % aI aays JoMmsy @ Store
tozed and at three O'Clock in the
just weve hours after they had risen from sleep they
took that paeic which has brought upon them
ridcuc. and which has excited much disgust among
all intelligent men except the obserNan our
Psychologists. The case very much the same at
Bethel Their defeat due to their cowardicc the
panic into which they ie Is only to be accounted for
the physiological principles The precisely the
again at Cdrnfcx Ferry whc.c EosccraDs had
United the indiscretion OF attacking enemy, well
posted with columns which had risen carly had be n
htusted by tramp o. twcuty miles Ills c,uli not
stand the fierce vocys Of our men they took it into
their heads that shottng our guis with molten
spclter they took stampede and fed whcrcupou their
generals ia ~ ght 1t advisable to zeal item OF"
The best and most successful generals OF whom we
hay. any ace unit from Cesar to General Taylr have
always made point Of resting their well immediate
before going into action. Ii army rested twenty
hours before going into yht the chunccs ten to
that they Will manta the action ten hours without any
symptom Of incbng tagging unless from excessive heat
other extraordinary The ply sica condition
OF soldiers on entering an engagement has much to
do with department while it is pending than
IS usually supposed. This OF knowledge has always
been discovered by great generals and scrupuousy
employed in planning ali thei actions.
IN reec, 10 this physiological fac hare dedys had the
dfrontdge Of the ensDy tn progress Of this We
stand on thc defensive The enemy invade. They must
make the assault aud Tho fatigue and proracicd loss
rest encountered IN reaching lines make them prey
panic and morbid impulses. The Bail and Bethel
pacs only that have seized them. Their
sampedes from Prcstonsburg and from Cumberland Ford
were even remarkable than the others from the
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