Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-09-24

fold that of the strictly Confederate
territory; aud from the border
Southern States aud communities
of Missouri, Kentucky, East Ten
neSsec, West Virginia, Maryland
and Delaware, she got more men
and supplies for her armies than
the Confederacy got for hers.
Kentucky alone furnished as
many men to the Northern armies
as Massachusetts. In available
money and credit the advantage Of
the North was vastly greater than
in population, and it included the
possession Of all the chief centres
of banking and commerce. Then
she had the possession Of the old
government, its capital, its army
and navy, and mostly, Its arsenals,
dock yards, and workshops, with
! all their supplies of arms and ord
nance, and military and naval
stores of every kind and the
means of manufacturing the same.
Again, the North, as manu-
featuring and mechanical people,
abOunded in factories and work
shops of every kind, Immediately
available for the manufacture Of
every species of supplies tor the
army and navy; while the South,
as an agricultural people, were al.
most wanting in such resources.
Finally. in the possession of the
recognized government, the North
was IN full and free communication
with all nations, and had full OPP
portunity, which she improved to
the utmost, to import and bring in
from abroad not only supplies of
ali kinds, but men as well, tor her
service; while the Sonth, without
a recognized government, and with
her ports speedily blockaded by
the Federal navy, as almost en-
tirely shut up within herself and
her own limited resources.
Among all these advantages
possessed by the North, the first,
the main, and decisive one was the
navy. Giving her, all but this and
they would have been Intellectual to
prevent the establishment of the
Confederacy. That arm of her
strength was at the beginning of
the war in an efficient state, and 1t
was rapidly augmented and i'm
proved. BY it, the South being a.
most without naval force the Mort b
was enabled to sweep and blockat le
her coasts everywhere, and SO,
aside from the direct distress i'm.
nicted, to prevent foreign recog-
milton; to capture one after anOth.
er seaports; to sever and cut up her
country in every direction through
its great rivers; to gain lodgm ents
at many points within her territory,
from which numerous destru ctive
raids were sent out in all directions;
to transport troops and supplies to
points where their passage by land
would have been difficult or i'm
possible; and, finally, to cover,
protect, and save, as by the navy
was $50 often done, the defeated
and otherwise totally destroyed
armies of the North in the field.
But for the navy, Grants army
was lost at Shiloh ; and but for it,
on the Peninsula, in the second
wear of the war, McClellan's army,
Notwithstanding bis mastery re-
treat from his defeats before Rich
mond, was lost to a man, and the
independence of the COnfederacy
established.
After q glorious four years strug
gle against such odds as have been
depicted, during which indepen-
dence was often almost secured,
when successive levies of armies
amounting in all to nearly three
millions of men had been hurled
against her, the South, shut off
from all the world, wasted, rent
and desolate, bruised and bleeding,
was at last overpowered by main
strength; outfought never, for,
from first to last, she everywhere
outfought the foe.
The COnfederacy fell, but she
fell not until she had achieved i'm
mortal fame. Few great establish
| ed nations in all time have ever
eNvhibited capacity and direction in
government eqeal to hers, sustain
I'd as she was by the iron will and
persist ence of the extraordinary
man whC-t? was her chief, and few
have evt-Gr won such a series OF
brilliant victories as that which
illuminate forever the annals OF
her splenl ibid armies; while the
fortitude annd patience of her peo'
pie, and pa rticularly Of her noble
women, undn'er almost incredi bic
trials and 81 lflerings, have never
been surpasssied in the history OF
the world. nd
Such e1t'ilted character and
achievement bewere not all in vain
Though the Csnpnfederacy fell as an
actual physic~ 81 power, she lives,
Illustrated by o'them, eternally in
Ter just cause, '"the cause of con
hberl. ".
And Mr.. DaNvis's Southern tour
s nothing lcss'.ss than veritable
moral triumIaph Tor that cause and
or himself " as its faithful chief
nanifestingw to the world that the
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