THE GREAT INSURRECTION: Active Movements Among the Federal Troops; An Attack from the Rebel forces Probable; Their Position Ascertained by a Balloon Reconnaissance (6/24/1861)

New York Times archives – Times Machine ^ | 6/24/1861

[Homer_J_Simpson]

WASHINGTON, Sunday, June 23.

I see you are puzzled to understand the proposition of the rebel Government to buy one-half of the cotton crop. Let me tell you what Mr. Ex-Secretary COBB expects to make by his scheme, and how he expects to make it successful.

The cotton obtained from the planters is to be sent to one point, probably New-Orleans. Mr. COBB then expects to say to England, "We have gathered one-half our crop at one point; you must raise the blockade and let it out." If England's necessities are so great as to impel her to such an act, COBB expects then that the remainder of the crop will be sent forward through the same direction by the planters, and thus the entire crop will be sold and the cash realized.

You can elaborate this idea. I know it is the key of COBB's scheme. The prospect of such a market induces the planter to give the rebel Government one-half of his crop, while concentration induces England to risk a war with this country. This is the way in which Cotton is expected to prove that it is King.

A naval expedition of much magnitude will soon be fitted out to operate on the Coast of Texas. It will consist of transports, carrying munitions of war and men, conveyed by small vessels-of-war. The former will be large enough to take the field and form a nucleus, around which the Union men, under HOUSTON, can rally. Preparations are now making for the expedition.

The Second New-York goes over the river to-night, to replace a regiment moved forward from the internments.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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The American Civil War, as seen through news reports of the time and later historical accounts

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The Great Insurrection: Highly Important News from Washington – 2-3
Affairs in Grafton – 3
Proclamation by Gen. McClellan – 3
The Indians in Council – 3
Editorial: The Kentucky Concordat – 3-4
A Union or a Federation – 4
A Day at Fort Pickens: Extract from a Letter of the London Times Correspondent in the South – 4-6
Editorial: Northern Freedom of Speech – 6
Editorial: The French Declaration of Neutrality – 6
What Cobb will Do with His Cotton – 6
The Ninth Massachusetts Regiment – 6
Another Privateer: The Ship Windsor Forest Chased by a Privateer – 6

[Pikachu_Dad]

A good report on Kentucky !

The villain Breckinridge is finally mentioned.