The New York herald., 1862-02-19

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element of Congress upon this subject cannot
be denied; and we know not to what extremities
even yet this abolition faction may push its de-
signs against Southern slavery should this reOel-
lion be persisted in or longer submitted to by
our Southern people, Their only safety in
cluding their peculiar institution" lies in
their immediate return to the Union. The
Union sentiment of the South, through the
simplest processes of political organization and
action, may put an end to this rebellion within
twenty days. Its prestige of strength is gone;
it is now covering like an exposed impostor,
and the hitherto Overawed Union men, even of
the original seeding States, may now rise
against it, grapple it, and strangleit
The last glimmering hope of JEFF. Davis OF
European Intervention has died out. England
and France have wisely agreed to stand alOof
for an indefinite time to come. The simple
issue, then to the people of the rebellious
South is. between submission which will save
them and subjugatlon which may destroy
them. 1t is folly and madness TO talk of
Southern independence, by Southern arms,
against the overwhelming military forces Of
the Union. Putting the rebel armies at three
hundred and fifty thousand men, they are con-
fronted by twice that number of Union soldiers.
These soldiers, too, are provided with the most
efficient weapons of modern warfare, against
whole regiments Of shotguns and old style
muskets, and batteries of inferior artillery.
And then in our naval forces. in our absolute
command of the sea, in our blockade-which
at length is admitted by the rebel leaders to
be dreadfully complete-and in our Western
gunboats, we have for the purposes Of this
war the elements Of power equal in
themselves to an army Of at least three hun
dred thousand Southern men, with their con-
temptible artillery as compared with ours
Contemplating all this array of stern facts
all these tremendous military forces resources
and facilities, and the mechanical, financial and
commercial advantages of the loyal States, and
the significant results of our late military ope-
rations, East and West-we appeal to the people
of the South to rise up in their own right and
put down that spurious Southern confederacy
of Davis and his colleagues, and bring back
our revolted States to the Union while yet the
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the time, and that this is the acceptable oppor-
tunity for the salvation of the South must be
apparent to every intelligent Southern man
outside Of the desperate clique of Davis and his
ruling confederates.
Progress or Our Arms-Desperation Of the
Rebel Cause.
The following table will show how the
tide of war has turned in favor of the North
since the beginning Of the year,
REBEL PRISONERS TAKEN
Fort DOnelson. Is 900
0pr1ngneio, mo. 6OO
Various other places. s....................... $50
Total .....;......,....,. ls ,6Ss
Union prisoners taken at Fort Donelson. 200
Let the dupes of the secession leaders look
upon this picture and on that, and let them
learn wisdom from it in time. Everywhere the
arms of the Union are triumphant, and its
forces still pressing steadily onward, while
continual disaster, retreat and capture are the
bitter portion of the rebel host. The gods
seem to be against them, and they might as
well give up the foolish contest. We always
said that as soon as the government was ready to
bring to bear the mighty agencies and resources
of which it was possessed the contest would
be short. One of these agencies is our steam
navy, so improved by iron armor that it
can resist the fire of all ordinary Notifications.
1t was owing to this that Fort Henry was cap
turcd, and now Fort Donelson, with the extra
ordinary number of $4,000 prisoners. Had the
fort been attacked only by the ordinary wooden
vessels, or by a land force alone. the chances
are that our army would have been repulsed.
The command of the water is an advantage
to the Union arms for which nothing can COM
pensate the South Hitherto the insurgent
chiefs relied upon the railroads to concentrate
their forces at any menaced point; and were it
not for the gunboats in the Tennessee and Cum
berland that advantage would have availed them
in the recent battle. But our control of their
inland waters by means of iron-clad gunboats
not only rendered their forts untenable
but cut of reinforcements by the de-
struction of the railroad bridges. Thus
the effect of the gunboats with only
q small number of men. is to paralyze
the Southern army by destroying its communi
cations and rendering certain its overthrow in
detail. The Union army is enabled to use its
own railroads and the rivers running into the
heart of the Southern country. while the rail-
roads of the rebels are rendered comparatively
useless to them. Then the rapid and ample
supplies Of ammunition and provisions which
can be conveyed by water give tremendous
to the Union arms. With such odds
against them it is impossible for the Confede-
rates to hold out much longer, and the sooner
they submit the better for themselves. That
they are brave, and fight well, cannot be de-
MED; but with one great element Of nature
against them-water-and with the application
Of the same element in the form Of steam to the
g,inboats clothed in iron mail, and with the
other odds that are against them, what can
courage avail. Early submission would be the
highest wisdom.