New-York daily tribune., 1862-10-07
ExPECTATrONs NOT REALIZED.

ExPECTATEONs NOT REALIZED.
1t will not be denied that the national eX-
peIience of tho latt sixteen months has been
crowded with disappointed expectations. That
of the rebellious States has been equally diver
sfed, bu. moro disheartening. Europe IL con-
founded at the total failure of the numerous
predictions put forth not only by tho whippers.
in Of ber veual press, but by men regarded as
statesmen, and by high officials of her most
powerful Governments. Parties everywhere
J have been at fault. Events relied upon By us
as certain TO occur, have not been realized,
while Others which the press fcrcsb9dowcd,
have come TO pass beyond the public e2pecta-
ton. Our anticipations Of some things have
been more than realized. 1t was everywhere
seen that the blockade Of the Souihern ports
would strip the railroads of that region of oil
freights and travel and drive them to the
seaboard over Northern roads. Tie sixteen
hundred steamboats, usually employed upon tie
Mississippi would be 10 longer available as
carriers; their vast tunnage must coDo this
way By rail. IL was to secure portion Of
this enormous Western trade that every sea-
board city constructed lines Of railroad tapping
the Miss isippi Valley. As was clearly ,een as
Tie beginning, the blockade has destroyed the
| business OF every Southern line, while the vol
umc Of trade that crowds every Northern one
exceeds all loyal expectation. Their stocks
aud bonds command higher prices than at any
previous time, some Of them exceeding those OF
EI. -
roads, while it mpoycri,hes those al the South.
Though cotton is a missing quantity, yet there
is no yncuum on the lines of transportaiioH-
all are crowded 10 their utmost capacity. Ia
this respect the North has been disappointed,
the reality far exceeding tLo most sanpuuc
expectation. Our trade with tue South having
wholly disappeared, il is seen that that OF the
West is large enough to supply its place. and
that Northern scoports. which were insoleLtiy
declared TO be mere supp!icatiug dependencies
on Southern cotton Esds, are active with busi-
nes' and ple,horic with capital under q total
desrih Of cotton.
when tie Rebellion took shape N 1862
lines Of magnificent steamers were running
from Northern ports 10 Charleston, Savannah,
Mobile and New Orleans, q feet Of yearly 80
vessels, beside numerous sailing packets. The
Mississippi swarmed with natb boats aud
steamers 70 and from New Orleans aud in.
telmediate ports. All Of this enormous traffic
has long been Dead so lar as the South is
concerned. She Idculed the IDEA of
blockade, and England repeated il with in.
solent sneeIs. But n blockade such as the
world never saw has been no rgidly main
tained that even British inso!elcc IS compelled
to acknowledge its efficiency. Here arc ex-
pectations which have been sOrely disappointed.
Luxuries have disappeared from tie South,
and the sole cry is now for food, no matter
what il may be. Cotton, which was 10 con.
tiDuc king. and as such to compel foreign in
teryention, IL helpless ms common pauper.
Slavery, the corner stone OF the Rebellion, has
ceased TO produce it, because il can neither
be sold nor eaten, and is hun.blcd to. the more
necessary work Of raising hog and hominy.
The struggle now is not for ailuencc or even
comfort but for life itself. The crazy South
expected no such catastrophe us this. Her
disappointment. 10 overwhelming.
Her treason was strengthened by another
terrible mistake. IL assumed tina. the North
would be- split into factions, aud that power
iul one would even take up arms in her be-
half. Her first discouragIng disappointment
was the discovery that this was a deluson.
She was staggered by the loyalty Of the mass
Of Democratic leaders. AS thcy had hereto.
fore eaten dirt at the bidding Of the South. SO
they were relied on to fight for treason itself.
Tho stern loyalty Of Douglas, Butler, Cass,
aud men Of kindred aniecedents, struck the
conspiracy with dsmay. But the amazipg
unaninity of the entire North astounded them.
They understood it from the beginning az the
certain downfall Of the Rebellion. If in the
fret expectation they have been disappointed,
they will not bc in the lat. They pronounced
the war, as waged by the North to be one Of
Abolition, knowing tho charge to be lie.
roost Emancipation they now discover to be
inevitable. That it should thus come, is as
glorious disappointment to the North as il
will be crushing one " tho present genera.
| ton Of the South.
The South relied on Europe forcing the
blockadc,' 'liberatng the cotton crop, and pour.
ing in supplies Of all descriptions. The
Capital was to be taken and occupied as their
seat Of government; Baltimore, Philadelphia,
and New.York wero to become the spoils of
treason, because one Rebel could yanquish iiye
Northern men. Blood was to dow in all our