Latest Northern News.
Our files of Federal paper of the 13th instant, furnish us with the lowing intelligence:
The game of brag.
The N. Y.
Herald says, the
Southern of brag is now played out. Before the name note defeat the whole number of rebel a sonars, held by the
Union, was 1,990.
The rebels held 2,198 Union prisoners, and thus had slightly the advantage of us. Now, however, we have bagged between 2,000 and 4,000 prisoners at
Roanoke, besides rebel Brigadiers and lesser officers at
Fort Henry, and hold a very large balance of power.
It is not probable that we shall hear any more threats of hanging
Col. Corcoran, and other imprisoned patriots, from the rebels after this.
That game works both ways, and we can hang two or three men for their one now, if we like.
Thanks to Foote for his victory.
Navy Department, Feb. 9th, 1862.
Flag Officer A. H. Foote, U. S N., commanding United States Naval Forces,
Cairo, Ill.
Your dispatch announcing the capture of
Fort Henry, by he squadron which you commanded, has given the highest gratification to the
President, to Congress, and the country.
It was received and read in both houses of Congress in open session.
The country appreciate your gallant deeds, and this department desires to convey to you and your brave associates its profound thanks for the service you have rendered.
What is to be done with the South when it is conquered.
The New York
Herald has the following;
‘
This is a very important question.
What is not to be done with them was decided by the flat rebuke received by
Senator Sumner whose resolutions, on Tuesday, were laid on the table
Ly a vote of 21 to 15.
These resolutions are only part and parcel of the same impracticability which has marked the career of the fanatic faction to which
Senator Sumner belongs.
The man who proposed to send ambassadors to the black republics of Hayti and
Liberia.
now proposes to put the black race over the white race at the
South, wherever the blacks are more numerous than the whites.
By some unnatural idiosyncrasy, all
Senator Sumner's sympathies are lavished upon negroes, in antagonism to the interests of the race to which he is supposed to belong.
Such is his passion for the negro that he would lay the train for
St. Domingo massacres from the
Susquehanna to the
Rio Grande, and he would bright the
Christian civilization of the Caucasian race in order to substitute the cannibalism and fetishism of the
King of
Dahomey.
Having played his part in breaking up the
American republic of white men, this fanatic is now engaged in the work of preventing its reunion.
Mr. Sumner maintains that the
Southern States cease to belong to the union, and therefore we of the
North may treat them as we please — they are beyond the pale of the constitution.
Territorial Governments must be established, and we will rule them with a rod of iron.
Now, if the
Southern States are not legally within the
Union, what are we waging war with them for?
Has not the war been set on foot to ‘"execute the laws of the
Union?"’ Why did we not establish a territorial Government for
Mexico when we conquered her?
And why have we not annexed all the neighboring nations around us and made them Territories?
The colonial system of the old country is unknown to American laws.
We do not believe in the folly of enslaving the white men of our own race for the purpose of emancipating negroes.
The moment we attempt anything of this kind we absolve the
Southern population from all allegiance to the
United States, and we have no longer any cause of war against them.
This is either a war for the maintenance of the
Constitution or it is not If it be a war for the
Constitution, then it must be carried on according to the principles of the
Constitution.
If it be not a war for the
Constitution, what is it for?
Surely not for a mere abolition theory, a fanatical abstraction, is this great nation to pour out its blood and treasure like water.--If the old Union is not to be restored by the war, then we have no more to do with the
Southern States than we have to do with
Mexico,
Central America, or
Canada.
But if the object of the war be to restore the
Union, it may be necessary during the struggle to place under provisional government those Southern States which are subjected to our arms.
That has been done to some extent already.
’
Miscellaneous.
A meeting on behalf of
Colonel Corcoran was to have been held in Tammany Hall last night; but, in consequence of the necessary preparations not having been completed, it has been postponed until next week.
A large audience was assembled last evening in the Twenty-third St Baptist Church, to listen to the narrative of
Mr. James Gillette, a member of the Seventy-first regiment, who was captured at the
battle of Manassas, and imprisoned at
Richmond for five months. The account was deeply interesting, and confirmatory of the statement already published in the newspapers relative to the treatment of the
Union prisoners by the rebels.
Indeed, we published some time ago an interesting letter from the pen of
Mr. Gillette while he was a prisoner.
The proceeds of the lecture will be applied to the relies of the prisoners of war.
