Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1862-01-07
OUR MILITARY BUDGET.
THEIR GREATEST DREAD.

Late Richmond and Charleston newspapers
make Il plain that the oligarchic authorities
recognize In the delay Of forward movements on
the part Of the armies Of the Union, against which
our own red republicans enveigh so loudly, an
absolute surety that when such movements do
take place. their rebellion will be annihilated past
per adventure They state the case so much clearer
than we can state It, that we prefer to let them
do so for us-as follows from the Richmond En-
amiHsT y
"The troops sent on this expedition. and borne
by the transports attached to IL, are, like all the
troops In the Geld, raw and undisci plined. Now,
here, a. elsewhere, whenever the unframed VOL
untees Of the South meet the unframed volunteers
Of the North, with an equality Of numbers and
commanders, the defeat of the latter may be
assumed as a certainty. The repeated trials and
proofs Of this war leave no possible doubt Of the
Individual superiority Of the southern man over
the northern man In personal combat; and this
superiority 10 still the only element In the battles
fought between the two nations. This Is our
security against the feet and army which operates
this winter on the southern coast 1t 10 also our
perfect and absolute defense for the present against
the great force collected along our northern from
tier. go long as the armies Of the Union and Of
the Confederacy are both composed of recruits,
we stand in no danger, and need entertain no
apprehensions. The dark hour of our trial has
not yet come. IL will come whenever Mcclellan
has succeeded In converting his Yankees into the
involuntary machines known to the military
sClcuCc ds DrlSduts anu QlVlblO0e.
This Is the end that he proposes to himself
This is the secret Of his long delay. This is the
work Of his hands and his head at this moment.
He may succeed In executing 1t completely. The
most cowardly individuals Of the most unwar-
Ike race, when long subjected to a lgid and
methodical discipline, can be amalgamated into
bodies which act with the certainty and insensi-
bility Of combinations of iron and brass moved
by steam and directed by the human hand. There
IL no reason to suppose that the people the Uni
ted States are exceptions to the rule that holds
good with Hindoos, Muscovites and Malays
Their separate poltroonery can be overcome by
the power Of military organization, and then the
courage Of our segregated soldiery-however
noble-may be broken like the wave on a mass
Of stone. Here lies the true danger Of the future
While the North relies on discipline we trust
still to individual superiority and however bril-
liant the results that the last has hitherto gained
and may still secure, IL will be found In the end
al inefficient on the American continent and In
the nineteenth century as II has ever been in all
other ages and all other lands "
The steamer Yankee came up from the iotilla
yesterday, and went down again In the afternoon.
She had hole In her bow, made by shell fred
from the rebel battery at Cock pit Point day or
two since, when the Anacostia and Yankee ex-
changed shots with that batlery-Do serious dam
age being done on either side. The shell men.
toned entered the bow Of the Yankee, and struc
one Of her knees, but did not explode
The King Philip has gone down, to be used as
an Ice boat.