Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1862-06-20
FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 20, 1862.

promise on the 1st Of March? Ths issue do
pends absolutely and entirely, 80 far as the
Northern progress is concerned, On the fate o.
the main armies in the field. All tho mino,
occurrences at the oxtremilies must follow tht
fate Of decisive evonts at the centre--tiis
branches must fall as tho tres falls. Now, tht
Eastern campaign opened with an enormous
host at Washington, we'll drilled, admirably
equipped, and, to all appearance, able TO ami
hlatc the we.tlscr- beaten force, thinued by &
winters hardships Mt Manassas. Tho South
ern army was to be driven out of Virginia, nf
a matter Of course. We now approach thu
end OF the spring, and find That groat North
ern host broken up into pieces. The chie
of these is 80 placed that the enemy might
have guided it to take the narrowest road, the
sickliest locality, and to run against the
very strongest wall it could find Ofthe other
corps, that of Mcdowell still breathes the alr
of the Potomac, while that of General Banks
devotes itself TO all inccssant march, first to
the west, thon to the south, and now eastWards.
Meantime the Southern army, greatly incroas
! ed in strength and placed i'll commanding
position, instead of its original inferiority, ap-
pears stronger than any forco that threatens
it, and, SO far from being driven out of Yir-
giria, seems vdry likely to inAict Disastrous
loss on its ssSail,nts S!lould the main ARMY
of the N3rth return for thn Third tiin5 10
Washington, w!.at Ysluu viii attach to Sue
! ceasos on the coast
Passing to tho Wrstarh campaign the Feio-
raj troops advanced in like manner in over
wheming force. Rowling Green WAS aSan-
ioned, Fort Doneisoh taken, Nashville occupied
Here, again, the operations commenced with a
premise Of continuous triumph; yet at the ond
u( two months The army ON tho Tennessee is
employed in recovering from disastrous
blow, and in seeking for further strength, while
the weak and scattered forccs Of tho Soulh have
become powerful army, full of spirit, and
nlllor General who alone has acquired a
reputation in the field. In tho impending con.
test, should Bcauregsrd gain victory, the
invading troops will be driven out Of Tennessee,
and garrison in New Orleans, entirely isola-
ted and exposed to tho effects Of n summer in
that climate, will prove but very disastrous
advantage to the North. And, in considering
tho aspect of tho main Federal operations, it is
necessary to keep in view that the real hard
ships of the war are yot unknown to them.-
| They have travelled, so far, AZ cabin passen-
gers, and have fought under tho wing of gun
boats : but before such n country is subdued,
| many footsore march must be made to baltic.
| fields away from rivers. The commissarins and
ths hospital services have not yet spoken out.
The truth is, that during !hs pnst winter tho
Northern people, having no external hope, ap.
piled themselves to form an army with admi-
rably energy and great succoss. The South.
erners, on the other hsni, were thoroughly
convinced tbst the pressure OF the blockade
and its inefliciency, as reported by oll the En
ropean consuls to their rasps ctive governments,
| would enforce an Intervention Of tho Great
| Powers. This conviction lulled them into iaac,
tlon, especially in the West, and tho conse-
quences were plain at the commencement of
operations. The delusicn passed away, the
reality aroused them 10 action, aud we see the
| result ia the relative condition of tho main ar
mic!. At tho end Of summer their effcc>
tive forces will probably be the more numerous
Of the two. That some positions have bsen
ba1ly beld and some mistakes committed can
not be surprising We judge with a European
standard, but tho half disciplined troops,
whether OF the North or South, cannot he
expected to operate with the judgment or ra.
sist with the tirnncss Of professional so!diers.
Here is people shut out from the world,
leprived Oi all tho comforts Of life, starting
without tools. money, credit, ships, or soldiers,
disappointed in their political calculations,
their commerce annihlated, the value Of their
properly extinguished, over matched in men
and means of warfare, assaed With torrents
o. abuse, and depressed by long course ci
adverse events. fn the face of such difficulties
as thcso they have naw 5000 mcn under
arms and in the two great actions of the war
they tiavs taken homo the prisoners and the
| 10 M; tbn ohn, Of fur
men, or is it the movement Of n rcsolulc
people? And if such people are to ba sub"
jugated, and such a country is to be held as a
conquered province to crafty Tho ambition OF
s Sell the profits OF Others for whom are ibcr
| ty and self-governraent to b. reserved
But such IN event may be regarded as ar
mpossibIlty. The power Of q resolnte people
against regular armies has often been proved on
small scsle--La Vendec, Switzerland, the
Tyrol, Holland has exelnpiicd; on a scale
such as this, what army, Americ'n or Euro
pean, could deal with il? Ncw Orleans is taker
only in name; its trade was gone and lis pe0-
ple are unchanged. BY a singular fatality lis
people had no chance to Fl hi Tor it-a kpen hu.
! initiation to race whose CO lrage amounts 70
reuklessness of life. All this will not MAKE
them loyal In every community thcro vii
ba found some few craven spirits 10 run up the
| h1g of the conqueror or trade with his suffers
But in every country the great majority have
some respect for the land Of their birth, and
whatever their original sentiments they cannot
welcome those who come TO rule it rs con-
qucrad province. The prople Of New York
arc ela;cd, naturally; but they forget tile fac
that their own city fell into onr hands in q
mannor no, moro glorious Now York aud tht
Hudson were quite as important to tho colo
nists as Ncw Orleans nnd tbo Mississippi are
now ycs orr possession of them had no cffsc
in subhuirg tho country, and in spite Of it The
"rebrIS" obtained their Independence Why
may not the same result folIoE now
am, Sir, your obcdient servant,
Liverpool May lG. s.