Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1862-06-10
linaain,s Grand Army Where IL itt

4 comprehensive view Of the pending Wal
in i,s present aspect, contsiDs everything mol
only to eScit. hope but TO Inspire glowing
corfiltncc in the triumph Of The Confederate
cause. Oar enemies have not only run up d
public dct,t so vast that witn all their ports
open and all their avenues to trade unoisturbed,
they itaT 10 lay tax sufficient 10 pay the i'll
terest; tut thsr expenditure Of meu has been
enormou:.
Senate. Gr.mts, OF Iowa, i'll late speech
advocating the enlistment OF negro soldiers,
reisrred 10 Ito deleterous effects OF the South
ern climate Oh lie Northern soldiers, aud said
that Ioaa, ear ago, had se'it I'VE iuii req"
meuts IL tho field, sud noE out OF them all
thrIe could not he produced thousand efsc~
tive IN. A Irisoner taken at the battle CT
williamsburg sts,ed that his regiment LETT
Maine twelve hundred strong, bat Eum os1ed at
the battle only three hundred.
It's tie boast Of the Northern bapars that
they enlisted q. tie beginning this war, seven
hundred 10 seVeu hundred aad 6fiy thousand
men, All that are lett ofthem are now in the
ii sid. The e1emy have no reserves. This is
proved by the fact that when they lately con-
sdersd their capital in danger, they had to
call ior the militia, and to seduce them by tho
promise to Keep them only lhroe months. 1t
is corroborated by the further fact, that when
Mcclellan alL nalleck have begged for reih'
forcsments, aud they have been constant bag,
gsrs, they could only DO gratihed by weakening
other comm, ,uds. 10 this mauner it was that
Backs says he was victimiz ID; perhaps, how
ever. in that sse Jackson was merely robbed
Of greater trophies,
The iurscs OF the enemy are MaClclans end
Halle ok s to.ntlan.ie say 100. .ooh eact; Mellow.
elrs, stleds'4' sid F,emonts, say 10000
buruside's, Hunters and Butisl'a, say sc, 600,
they u,usL 10 s,uAll iur lhey have kept very
s,,lI. Besides lhsse they have but few scat
tered dstachments, that would add up but lit
tie. The foregoing hgares add up SOO. Uou;
| and VI. thiak they too are liberal. But put
ting ,hs aggregate at $50 000. and there ro.
mains q balance oi 350. 600 or 100000. to be
set down ss the Consumption Of the North 'h
men, in wag"s their war upon us 'or one
year
The "Hslald' states the present strength, 81
the Northern aru.y at 800, 900. and the Con
Tolerate army a, 400 coo AS above stated, &c
d nol believe that Lincoln has near 800, ,OOU
Ensn in his caiiips, but oven thst number
would show tiiniRntinn OF 25G, oG0 from what
the "Hcrald' says they started with. Where
are the rest? They hase got their Southern
farms, or havo otherwise been placed hors dv
| com6at.
md not only.is the Northern army thus
reductd and destroyed, but wherever they
stand confronted with ours, il is We who seek
ths fight and theg VITO shun it. AT Oorinth
and at Richmond, ,uoy prefer to burrow and
dig, and although they have come to whip US
decline the gage of battle. The excuse they
give is rbst We outnumber them. The atrate'
gy on which they rely, is to cut eli our re
souroea, and to cong uer US, not like brave ant
strong men attack their enemies, but as un'
derminers. The New Y York Herald" exuits oVer
the idea that food is to fail US; that our meol