Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1840-05-21

tie himself tells thai il as "the plann snbmit,
by Mr.. Poinsett. We will ,hen look beyond the
btf, aud go back 10 the Report, which IL is admitted
that the President had seen. read and approved
what is the plan, as embodied in the Report Here
tits;
I'll " proposed 60 r,de he United States into eslt m
try districts and organisr the militia in each dstr so
as 10 g,e body OF twelve Thousand five hundred in
~ Nv SfkNltE, nnd another equal number n re-
HnSpR e T9nd sys az smsd mta 5ree Of TWO
as To be ready 10 take their places the defence
The country wheney called upon opppse the sneny or
eps the invader, The age OF tue RECRUIT to be rum 20
To ~ the whole term oi service be e,yt wears
N the first class, aud four ia the onconh part
twenty hive thousand men, leave the service every sear
passing nj the conclusion OF the first term, reserve
and exempted from ordinary militia duty altogether nj the
end oil The second In this twenty FIVE thousand
twenty-five thousand FRESH RECRUTTs Be rscsirsi INTO
nc serr.ee IL will be sufficient all useful purposes thai
e remainder OF the militia, under regulations nroy.
de ior their government be enrolled be mustered al long
a stated intervals tor IN due OF tae, nea, the
noe mass Tue militia Will pass through the hls aud
cond classes and he either members OF corps o, OF
he reserve or counted among the eNemps who viii be lin
e !" og 9aiea upon only IA periods OF danger imminent
peril he manner of enrolment the number DAVIS Of sen,
e ana the rue OF compensation ought! he fixed upon by
u ou the details Ind better be c subject TO regulation
"P'ah OF winch am prepared 10 submit you.i
"eii-the BIZ rs nothing but an ampli6ca,
uon oil 'he report, So that, even if, as is slylv
Insulated, not boldly asserted, as il would
oe Il 1t were tue, that the President never saw
the Bill, yet he did strongly recommend" the
"pan" dlml, shadowed forth in the Report And 10
that we hold him. No ingenuity, no sophslry, no
special pleading, exriea,e him from this position
1t will stitch to him like the poisoned shnt OF Nessus.
In some respects, the Report. which the President
did approve, is odous Than the Bill which it is
said there is no eridence tpltfu sub,eruge y that he
eversaw. For in the Report, we are told that in
each OF the eight military districts into which the
country is 10 be divided, there is to be "a body al
l2,500 men IN ACTIVE SERVICE" making a
Standing Army, to all intcnts and purposes. # there
be any meaning in language, of 100 900 men, with
dawn from the ordinary asoeations life. taxing the
treasury for their support, and forming class of citi
soldiers having interests distinct from the mass OF
the people, aud IN process of time perhaps becoming
The willing instruments oil their subsection 10 the
IRON sway OF some daring usufper. For not only are
they TO be in "aeive setyice," but they are to be
"STATlONED" al convenient points-nnd the
term "RECRulTS" is applied to them.-a tern,
used heretofore in reference TO the regular army
and never applied even In time OF war to militia in
active service! This language at once shocked and
alarmed the public aud hence Mr.. Po,nsett in his
Bill, absolutely modified his original "pan," which
the President did aud approve, by substituting
camp instruction for a tenn not exceeding lhllty
days, twice year, for the proposition 10 keep then,
In active service" and stationed" at convenient
points. while he studiously omitted the word ere
erus' altogether
If it be true, then, believe il 10 be Otherwise,
tla, the President had not seen the details Of Mr..
Ponsets '.pau," when lie so .'srrongly recomrnen-
led" the plan Itself 10 the consideration Of Congress
we conceive that his endorsaod embr ces prlnci
plies utterly al with the genus OF our iDstitu
tlons and with The pursuits Of o,r people, and which
had il not been rebuked at the outset, might have
heen forced upon the countty. as the Sub-Treasury
has we'll nigh been, through the combined influence
Of Executive patronage and Party discipline, thus
converting the whole country into one great camp
and reducing almost every thing unSer martial law"
We have already outrun our space, however. and
must conclude for the present. We shall hereafter
invite public attention other features Of this mon
stous scheme, which sufficient OF Itself: il there
were no other ground Of objection to this Admins
ration. to sink 1t deeper than athom line has ever
reached.