THE CONTINENTAL MONTHLY:

DEVOTED TO

LITERATURE AND NATIONAL POLICY.

VOL. I.--MARCH, 1862.--No. III.

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SOUTHERN AIDS TO THE NORTH.


Perhaps the most difficult question at present before the American
people is that so often and so insolently put by Southern journals, and
so ignorantly babbled in weak imitation of them by English newspapers,
asking what, after all, in case of a victory, or even of many victories,
can we do with the revolted provinces? The British press, prompt to put
the worst construction on every hope of the Union, prophesies endless
guerilla warfare,--a possibility which, like the blocking up of
Charleston harbor by means of the stone fleet, is, of course, something
which calls for the instant interference of all cotton-spinning
Christian nations. Even among our own countrymen it must be confessed
there has been no little indecision as to the end and the means of
securing the conquest of a country whose outlines are counted by
thousands instead of hundreds of miles, and whose whole extent, it is
too generally believed, forms a series of regions where dismal swamps,
bayous, lagoons, dense forests, and all manner of impenetrabilities, bid
defiance to any save the natives, and where the most deadly fevers are
ever being born in the jungles and wafted on the wings of every summer