Additional from the North.
From our latest New York papers, of the 4th inst., we extract some additional intelligence, which we give below:
"who's Afraid?"--"Nobody's Hurt."
When
Lincoln sends forth his calls, they bring less and more than he intended to — less men and more of those bitter reflections, which at the
North need but a proclamation to bring them out. Every call for men is another dash of the brush, which brings our of the cloudy ruin the clearly marked lines of the burnt district.
The calls for more lives, sets his subjects to thinking of the lives that have already gone to accomplish what will never be done.
The New York
World of last Wednesday, commenting on the phrases "Who's Afraid?"--"Nobody's Hurt"--says:
‘
These phrases are too memorable and too familiar to leave any occasion for tracing their paternity or explaining the hearing they were intended to have at the time of their utterance.
Each of these memorable phrases when uttered, redacted the feelings and cheated the warm approval of the Republican party.
They prove that in the Presidential canvass of 1860, and for some months afterward, there was no statesmanship in that party with forecast enough to form the faintest notion of coming events.
In our judgment, time will show that these men are as politically blind now, in 1864, as they were in the autumn of 1860 and the cussing winter.
But, for the present, we wish to call attention only to the instructive contrast between the light and caviller manner in which the
Republican statesmen scouted the idea of possible danger, with the actual consequences of the election of
Mr. Lincoln.
When
Mr. Seward was scoffing at the apprehension of more prudent, and sagacious men, and feelingly crying out "She's afraid? " what would his audience have said it the curtain of a near futurity could have been little and the danger disclosed to their view which has since justified these enormous calls for troops.
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| April 16, 1861. | 75,000 |
| may 4, 1861. | 64,748 |
| from July to December, 1861 | 500,000 |
| July 1, 1862. | 300,000 |
| August 4, 1862. | 300,000 |
| Deaft, summer of 1863. | 300,000 |
| February 1, 1864. | 500,000 |
| total | 2,039,748 |
this is the aggregate of the calls for men in only one branch of the service.
The Navy has not in deed, been developed on the same enormous scale as the army, but the number of vessels purchased and built, the number of seamen enlisted, and the expense incurred in the brief space of three years has no parallel in the History of any other nation.
From the recent report of the
Secretary of the Navy we compile the following statistics of that branch of the service:
| total Number of vessels in the service and under construction | 588 |
| total tonnage | 498,000 |
| Number of guns | 4,443 |
| Number of segment, July 1st. | 34,000 |
Patriotism naturally enough exults in these exhibits, which so splendidly attest the resources of the country; but they equally attest the fearful magnitude of the danger which so enormous a strain puts upon the national energies.
But do they not still more emphatically attest the unstatesman like blindness which some judged the tendency of events, and laughed to scorn the predictions of those who foresaw what was coming?
but our prodigious armies and flects are not merely displays of power, they are also evidences of debt.
The following figures, which we find compiled to our hand, show the various loans and liabilities of the
Government thus far authorized by various acts of Congress:
| Loan of 1842 | $242,621 |
| Loan of 1847 | 9,415,250 |
| Loan of 1848 | 8,908,341 |
| Texas indemnity loan of 1850 | 3,464,000 |
| Loan of 1858 | 20,000,000 |
| Loan of 1860 | 7,622,000 |
| Loan of 1861 | 18,445,000 |
| Treasury notes, March, 64 | 512,900 |
| Oregon war loan, 1861 | 1,016,000 |
| Another loan of 1861 | 50,000,000 |
| Three years treasury notes | 139,679,000 |
| Loan of August, 1861 | 320,000 |
| Five twenty loan | 400,000,000 |
| Temporary loans | 104,933,103 |
| Certificates of Indebtedness | 156,918,437 |
| Unclaimed dividends | 114,115 |
| Demand treasury notes | 500,000 |
| Legal tenders, 1862 | 397,767,114 |
| Legal leaders, 1863 | 104,969,937 |
| Postal and fractional currency | 59,000,000 |
| Old treasury notes outstanding | 118,000 |
| Ten forty bonds | 900,000,000 |
| Interest bearing treasury notes | 509,900,000 |
| Total | $2,774,912,88 |
All the loans included in this table have not yet been raised and expended, but they are no more than sufficient to carry the war through the next fiscal years.
But all the expenses of the war are by no means included in the expenditures of the
Federal Government.
If we include the large sums paid by the several States, and by municipal corporations in bounties, in the outfit of regiments, for sanitary purposes, and for supporting the families of soldiers absent on duty, several hundred millions would be added to the enormous total.
If we farther include the losses occasioned by the shock given to business in the first years of the war, the injury done to our commerce by the rebel privateers, and the wealth which would have been created by the men employed as soldiers, the aggregate will swell to a sum so formidable that the party that laughed and sympathized when their leaders so jauntily exclaimed, "Who's afraid" should at least be convinced that they were then following blind guides.
But what reason is there for supposing that these leaders possess more wisdom now?
Have the fanatical passions and sectional hate which blinded their judgment then abated anything of their violence by the progress of the war?
"Nobody's hurt." The shallowness and levity which prompted this noted remark were a shocking prelude to the bloody scenes that were about to open under the direction of the man who uttered it. The corpses that mouldier beneath the soil of a hundred battle fields; the hundreds of thousands of brave fellows who have perished in military hospitals; the hundred and twenty-four thousand widows that are now applicants for pensions, are a sad and terrible commentary on this heedless and heartless text.
Do such leaders deserve the confidence of the country?
Shall its destiny be longer committed to their keeping?
Diplomacy with France — a Hitch with France.
A telegram from
Washington to the New York
world, of the 21 inst., says:
‘
It is rumored in high official circles here that we are upon the eve of a war with
France, owing to the singular diplomacy of
Mr. Seward touching the questions growing out of the building of Confederate rams in
France.
It will be remembered that
Mr. Seward assumed a very bold tone toward the
English Government after he discovered that the
British Cabinet bad determined to detain
Laird's rams and keep the peace with this country.
His high-sounding dispatches were all written after the change of policy in the
English Cabinet was definitely understood.
Emboldened by his bloodless victories on paper, it is understood here that he assumed a similar tone toward the
French Government, touching the
Florida and the escaped steamer
Rappahannock, and also with regard to the rams which were known to be building in
France for the rebel Government.
His position was so incautiously belligerent that he has received a reply from
Drouyn de L'Huys which has put the Administration in a cruel predicament.
The
United States must either abandon its pretensions or go to war to maintain them.
This, it is stated, is the only interpretation which can be put on the reply of the
French minister.
Hence the panic in the gold market, the call for five hundred thousand men, and the orders which have been sent to various naval stations to fit out the iron-clads instanter.
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Another telegram says:
‘
It is now alleged that the trouble between
France and the
United States relates in some way to the special embassy which
Mr. Wm. M. Evarts had been sent on to that country.
After his services in the ram dispute in
England, it is known that he was instructed to demand of
France the surrender of the belligerent rights it accorded to the
Southern rebels.
Whether the demand, for whatever course of action, was based in a too peremptory tone, or whatever may be the trouble, it is certain that there is some serious difficulty with the
French Cabinet, so much so as to alarm all save
Mr. Seward himself.
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