The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1813-01-07

his way tco much reliance cannot be pia-
ced Oh th,ni; eooi.oft, both To them and
the govei nment. forbid their use for other
purposes. Their state ID discipline and in
differentiation, Except in the face oil dam
ger,) circumstances growing QUE uf the
freedom of our institutions: the waste OF
pubic Property, which he could illustrate
10y strong facts, all unite to dissuatlc us
iron, this resort. Call them out on short
tours OF duty. for much time is lost in
marching to and from TIE places of rendez-
voas. you are subject to pay nearly double
the force necessary to maintain any one
point--mase the term OF service long, and
you disproportion the burthen OF the war.
IN snort, the great mass who form the nil
liitia will ind it cheaper to pay regulars
than fight themselves.
Shali we any longer deceive ourselves: by
further dependence on the absurd vol;,n-
teer acts! E1pe rience is equally warning
on them. Though thousands of YOUR bra re
oountrymen. Mr. Chairman, have rushed
| to the field OF danger. it was certainly not
under the volunteer aCts-if ever one
scheme was better calculated to deceive
It's authors than another. this surely is sit
10 say nothing about its DEMONSTRATIONS
] character, IT Is miserable contrivance,
perfectly nugatory. except to accomplish
disappointment. Without a head, its ope-
rations, to say the least of them, begin at
the wrong end. The people are to manage
the afair-to associate-to enroll them
selves-to recommend officers. /. Organ
lie regiment, it will be made up
OF such disoordant .insubordinate materi-
ais. strangers to anc ignorant of each
other, confidence cannot exist i'm it; but
above all, the volunteer is to indent himself
tor three years for the performance of one
years service. Repeal these acts as the bill
proposes, with reservation of the rights
that have accrued under them, and the
services to the government of the men who
have enrolled themselvesland, in their
stead, authorize n corps of 90, 600 men of an
efficient regular character. When the CO.
lone!s shall have been selected for their
virtues and influence, give to them the Sc
lection of their officers--they can better
Judge who ought to command, and who can
raise men in their own neighborhood, than
the President or the Senate This mode
Will only change the appointment of officers,
from individual members of Congress to the
colonels, who certainly will be more scru-
putous who ne associates with him in dan
ger than any can be: they NAV be safely
intrusted with this power, under the an.
probation OF the President. With such a
provision the corps can be raised almost as
soon as the officers can be nominated by Che
President, approved by the Senate. and
commissioned by the Secretary ct Wsr.-
The term Of enlistment, is, confessedIy.
not the most eligible to form soldiers; but,
inasmuch as it is doubtful, whether you can
get force sufficiently strong on. e long pc
rod, the present is proposed. But Cor the
gallant and brave patriot OF the revelation
before him (Col. Stuart) he should have o.
United to add. this mode as found the most
efheaclous to raise men, dnriDg the revolu-
tionary wer: having been tested by expe-
flence, 1t may be again relied on.
| Having shown the necessity Of augment
ing the regular forces, it was equally mate
rialto provide for filling the ranks, and for
keeping them at their full compliment when
| hlled., With this view was the 1st section
introduced. The greatest evil, incident to
the recruiting service, results from the
fnumbcr of persons to whom the public mo-
Iney was necessarily distributed in proper
tion to the number of persons with whom it
is Entrusted. will be 'Its misapplication.
io remedy this, tits PROPOSED to appoint
officers to each regiment, FOR that particu-
lar purpose, in 10 way different from those
already appointed, who shall be employ ed in
| recruiting for their respective regiments
these to be under the order of a major, who
shall receive and be accountable for the is
sue. of money and clothes for; that service
The ranks filed, the presence Of all the Of
/ hcers onthc present establishment will be
| indispensable, as in our service the proper
ticn OF privates to the officers is greater than
In any other service whatever. The new
organization which was given to the army
at the last session, increased the number
| OF privates in each company without COR
responding increase of officers. If two
ileutcnants were necessary in a company,
for the purpose of discipline and recruiting
when It consisted of only sixty four priyates,
assurediy three, are as much so now it is
raised to 80. The recruits as fast as they
are enlisted may be concentrated under the
eye OF the major, where they may be cxcr-
clsed and drilled, SO that when he joins the
regiment, they will be,qualihed TO enter the
ranks and face the enemy. ..:
He expected to hear Sc objected, that
these additional officers were unnecessary,
seeing the regiments were not full. He ap-
pretended tbs objection was more speCious
than solid. Considering air the circumstan-
ces in relation to the army, the period when
raised and how Differed. he believed, sup
posing the regiments only half filled, it was
indispensably necessary, the officers should
be Constantly with them. He was much
mistaken If the officers were not as raw as
the private soldiers-eit was as important
they should be familiar with the duties, as
they whom they are to command. Ii would
be nothing short of butchery to send brave
men into the field, under such circumstan-
ce' when IN our power to avoid them. All
the dsllars and cents you will save, by re-
fuSing these few additional officers, would