The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-12-05

veefesye. better pay than that allow cd by
law because many ofthe,n are in such a
situation that their families are dependant
OH their personal services for subsistence
---and it as not possible that, at the present
rate OF pay. any thing car be spared b..
TIE soldier tor his family at home think
my worthy friend from. North Carolina has
indulged rather IN curious specu,a,ions than
s.und practice, when he won Il refu Z to a.
vail himself or the services OF a man be-
cause lie has no participation in tho govern
insat Would ne also dissranchise those
who had passed the PERIOD %; liability 20
militia di,.y / know he would not But
II there DC truth in his position, that lao
RAN should be called to perform military
{, duty who hasn agency IN the government,
it would follow that no man should have
an agency in government who is not called
OH by it to perform military duty.
81 Whether as Respects tie regular army,
enlistments are to be procured mere rea-
dIty by an increaEe OF pay or buunty, ]
leave to those more skilled in military at
fairs than myself to determine. But it
strikes me, that it is not by an increase OF
pay that you will obtain any addition to the
number OF recruits. Those who enlist in
the army doit not with view TO the pay.
but TO the bounty. lake away that, and
venture to say you may treble the pay *
Ccnhdent you would not il you doubled the
pay. How far i, is polite in government
ike that oil the, United States, to CHERISH
military establishments by high bountes,
viii properly be a subject of discussion
when the bill is recommitted to, commit
= tee OF the whole House, as l trust it will
be bat it always has appeared to ME that
If you wish to perpetuate any establishment,
TO rivct it on nation, you ought to make
it as 3" respectable" and lucrative as posi-,
BILE. What is the reason that any particu>
lar class or profession iii society has held
It's ground against all opposition Pit
has been the +" respectability" of the cal
ling, the lucrativeness of it. If YOU could
never get rid of the army when it was nei-
.ther lucrative or respectable, do you expect
ever to get rid of it when il is more iucra-
tive and trespectable-when the whole
youth of the country is embodied in it, and
there is scarcely family in the Country
that has rot an. interest in keeping it up
My eyes were caught last night by para
graph ina newspapers announcing the trial
OF deserter. 1t was. there stated, that
the practice had become SO common as to
endanger the safety of the nation. Will
that practice be diminished By an increase
OF the pay OF the soldiers The man who
was condemned to death was one who had
repeatedly enlisted for the purpose proha-
bly, OF obtaining the bounty. When, in the
Roman Repub!ic-and we have been
taught by my friend on my right to refer
to them--the army became not only part
but the whole OF the constitution, was the
army ever effected, in point of number or
power, by the immense doaatives, the vast
increase OF pay and bounty gwen by the
emperors. From the moment, you make
the army what see gentlemen DESTROYS of
making it. the great lucrative and respec-
table profession OF the country when you
thin the ranks of law and of msdicine-and
In that respect perhaps spare .human life |
1t not human blood--we have q new order |
Of society, new constitution
Mr.. Il. then adver,ed to the last section |
of the bill. He owned it was with some |
unpleasant feelings he saw this provision |
tor Communication of service from a Eve
years enlistment to enlistment during the
war. Butt was highly possible that upon
this as well as other topics, on which he
had incidentally & very digressively touch
ed, the House has, heard objections and /
arguments similar to those he had used &
infinitely more worthy their attention.
Before he sat down, Mr.. R. said he must
be permitted to remark, that although he
should not, as he intended, from the late
ness OF the hour of the day, go very far in,
TO the book o: Chronicles, the Records of 4
lfy4--He must De permitted, and the |
House would excuse him for it, to speak in |
reference to transactions of the last session, |
on the subject of Indian savages, who had |
been brought up in this days debate. The |
House may not have troubled its recollecti-
on, said he, with the declaration on this
subject at that day made by me, and which,
however ineonsideratcly made, ] still adj
here to. The power of the Indian savages
within the limits of the United States, with
whom we were in any danger Of coming in
to collision, was broken by the same arm
which broke the letters of British domni-
on. The peace of Greenville, which fol-
lowed Wayne's Indian war, put an end to
all collision between us and those barbari- |
ans &C there never was, from that time up TO !
the transaction at Tippecanoe, any inter-
ruption OF our ascendapcy over them
When the present President of the United |
States came into power, Mr.. X. said, he |
had announced the pacific disposition of the
Indian tribes, who were generally linked |
together in the Message with the Barbarian
Powers OF Europe. The declaration of |
their pacific disposition had been reiterated |
in each Message until that Of the last ses-
sion, as Mr.. X. proved By quotations which
he read. In the Message at the opening
OF the preceding session, which Mr.. r. demo-
minated the penultimate session, their pa
eihc disposition was distinctly scated.--
These continued declaTa lone, he said, were
conclusive OH the subject Of Indians and of |
Indian warfare.
in my tiesHltory way, continued MIR. II.
] will make another remark as to the pay
of soldiers. ] had always understood that