Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-05-01

THE EIcfiIOH--ASB THE "STASDiSG Army.
The Petersburg InellIgenccr is rapidly sinking all
Tho courtesies of society in the frantic fury Of par
zan We pass over the several ilberal remarks which
have lately shaded its columns, to notice the following
broad assertion, which appeared IN IFS last No al
there was window through which we could look INTO
the ENQUIRER heart, we should that all tbcre was
the backncss Of despair He kno,rS that if the State
goes for the Wings now, II must go for them IN the
Fall-This assertion IS Just true, as IT is polite
We have never expressed or felt donb, btore
the late election, about the result in the Fall But this
wiscacrc il appears knows us better than do our
selves We tell him At once, that Our buOyant hopes
have not yielded 10 dcspalrand that we are sangnne
about the fall election. We assigned the IN our
last and they ought to have been satisfactory to every
ingenious mind why should succeed in the fall all
though we might fail in the spring, We shall furnish
statistics enough in few days, to convince all-but
such heated partizans the dignIicd and decent Ed
tor of the Petersburg lnicgcnccr. When We lately
nailed to the counter the assertions 1t was pleased 10
rcpublish that we had been writing to our 'potcal
friends in different parts Of the country. avowng tourl
apprchcnsons for the result OF III" Presidential! iirc-
ton in Virginia. and urging the party action all
may be lost we were i'll hopes that should not
soon be compelled to contradict another 'swhappcr
from the muddy fountain. We may have lost the
State, this Spr'ng-ln consequence Of the arrange
ments of our county system, assisted by the duFp'-
Gated votes Of the towns. But would have sur
mounted even these difficulties, and glorlousy carried
the State if il had not been for the humbug Of stand
inr army about which this same Sir Oracle makes such
flourish
The Richmond Wing and its echoes did not blush
TO represent il as St0nding army OF 2OO,Ooo men,
KEEP, .comstsahy in body, and IN pay," involving the
Treasury in millions Of expense: when Hkmc'c that tie
Secretarys plan extended only to the training OF from
10 to 30 days-and that he had expressed himself sa
tis(cd with ~ DAYS which he estimated would not
cost half million of dollars. Such the infamous
bu9bcar and the gross misrepresentation 10 which IL
rcsorcd to deceive the people and carry the election.
The bill itself was liable to objections; but not only
its character grossly perverted, and organization OF
the militia assduously and unblushngly magnhed into
standing army, but It's details were attacked IN every
variety %! form. Those who assailed lis proposition
for every man to furnish his own muskct, Nc,
as unprecedented, and (as Major Campbell calls
it. damnGbiC,J either did not know, or done no.
thing more than followed the act of Congress, re-
mcmhered to forget, that the Secretary of War had
passed in 1872 and approved By Gen Washington,
which Declares '.Ihat every citizen 50 enrolled and
notified shall within six months hcrcat'rr provide
himself with good muske firrlock, sufficient bay
one and belt, two spare lintS and knapsaci, shot
pouch and powder horn twenty balls suited to Tie bore
OF the rifle and quarter OF pound OF powder ana
shall appear 50 armed accoutcd, and provided, when
called out TO exercise, or INTO service. ne niooe
saws that this is now the law Of the land II this
proposition be cxceptionabc (and 1t 50 appears 10 u.s.
vet is not more applicable to MIR. Ponset than is
10 the Congress Of 1882 and TO Washington himself
And let it be remembered, that Mr. + himself subse
queny and properly modified his bill, BY proposing ito
assemble the militia a. near convenient dePots OF
arms TO be established within the State TO which such
nilitiaman belongs thus supplying them with arms
for temporary training instead of requiring each man
to supply his own musSet. Nc.
If ,his proposition Of Mr.. P. does CO. the Peters.
Eburr sanrwhangcr contends, o raise in Republican
Amcrca, at a time OF profound peace, Standing Ar
INV of 100000 men, what will this Editor say to his
own candidate for the Presidency Aye, what will the
r. Wing saw or thc dolts and asses, who have been
caught BY their humbugs, the knaves who have con,r
buted 10 propagate them when they told that Their
own "Mltary Chleftain did in 1909 seriously recon-
mend Militia system the most pompous and extra
VACANT scale-lnstcad Of the few days says ne, now
appropriated to the purpose Of training and the very
few hours of those days actually employed, SOM;
weeks at least must be devoted TO the purpose ana
the must be taught IN camps OF discipline uloSe
studies which, representing faithful image OF aciu
al war form the best school in which can be taught
For the accomplishment Of object 50 desirable, 40
pains or expense should be spared
And again: IL have recommended amps y G'Sf'.
nine tor inst5uctIng those who axe already capable OF
bearing arms: but the career Of military instruction Tor
on. youth, should commence as soon as their nentai
and bodily powers have acquired sufficient strength