The weekly union record., 1864-07-30
The Prospects of the Contederates.

The London Quarterly Review for April
contains 81 article entitled The Prospects Of
the Confeierales." Il is written with great
apparent candor. and is worthy Of perusal IS
showing the English view Of the American
contest.
I he article is mainly devoted 10 review Of
the milita:y operations of the belligeFenls~ bur
toward he close it glides into sou,e severe
remarks in regard 10 the treatm tmeni of Freedmen
By the Federal authorities and the general
results Of emancipation.
The military situation the Review sums up
as beiug decidedly favorable la the South. 1h~
only time when tue North could have gained $
victory which might have resulted IN the
success of lis cause. was duFiag the suiuma
after the battle of Ball Kun
Al that time. the South was poo II provided
with everything. A victory, which resulted il
The capture Of large uumher Of small arn,s
and field pieces, would have left the South
defenceless. No new army could have been
organized, as there were no more arms to put
iu US hunds
The Review places the chief blame of per
mit,ing the golden moment 10 pass urimproved.
upon the shoulders OF Mcclellan, whom it calls
A helstane, the Unrvady;' snd awards the
SOlt Nf Sfutu ituin : utit7
less position to JEFF Davis. whom it evidently
regards as the ablest statesman in America.
From this period, according to the Review,
III the Northern power OF offence grew a
hundred fold, the Southern power Of defence
grew a thousand fold"
At present. il estimates he fighting popula
ton of the South at eight hundred thousand
men, from which the Confederate Government
will always be enabled 10 keep four hundred
Thousand in The field
The questions Of food and money are easily
disposed Of The former is merely question
Of transport. which will be overcome by 1.-THE
Of The energy that has already been displayed
in the conduct Of the war; The latter is not
worthy Of consideration, as The whole people of
the South are substantially devotlng the pro-
ceeds of their labor to the service OF their
Government.
The North is paving nearly one thousand
dollars for each recruit, while the system rf
cunscripu"n to which the South submits
enables The Cnhtedrraies 10 replenish their
armies at tr,fug expense.
Many Of the speculaions in which the
Review iudulged have been proven erroneous
by events that have sluce occurred For
instance it regarded t1e material OF th, Federal
armies in 1864 as n6ni'>Jy less good than il
was 10 1862, particularly Tie army at that
time under the immediate comnand OF Gen
Grant. but since led 10 victory urAer q D.
Sherman, and now reported close under The
fortl6ca'i0ns Of Atlanta.
History is more reliable than prophecy. The
armies OF the Cumberland and OF the Potomac
have since won plaudits. even from their
bitterest enemies-~hn may or may hot be the
foe they meet in the field.
Bal the article IN question is chiefly worthy
of comment from its cunlempuous treatment
Of the great problem Of emancipation now
being solved by the Federal Government.
When il was disl discovered that the sym
pathies Of England were unmistakably with
The South, the loyal people of the North were
surprised and panied. They had counted upon
the moral support of the Eng sh people not
50 much frum any supposed love that nation
bore Us as from a professed hatred OF slavery.
English Aboliiionists bad Travelled through the
Northern States exhorliHg people, at whatever
cost, to eface the stain Of slavery from he
national escntChecn. \ mprican A bolitiouist-
had been received in England, by nobility and
people, with distinctions rarely accorded 10
foreigners The institution Of slavery WAS the
one Standing repr"ach urged against Americans
in England who we're not identified With the
ami slavery movement.-G Golden Era.