The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1849-03-15
CRONIW WELLS ARMY.
nYT. B. MACAULAY.

state, was an army very different from any that
has since been seen among us. AT present the
pay of the common soldier is not such Sc
duce any but the humblest class of English la
borers from their calling; barrier almost impas.
sbe separates him from the commissioned Off
Ger. The great majority of those who rise high
in the service rise by purchase. So numerous
and exclusive are the remote dependencies OF
England, that every man who enlsts In the line
must expect to pass many years in exile, and
some years in climates unfavorable to the health
and vigor OF the European race. The army OF
the Long Parliament raised for home
vice. The pay OF the private soldier was much
above the wages earned by the great body of the
people; and if he distinguished himself by in.
telligence and courage, he might hope TO attain
high commands The ranks were accordingly
composed OF persons superior in station and edu-
cation to the multitude. These persons, SOBER
moral, dgent and accustomed TO reflect, had
been induced to take up arms not by the pressure
OF want, not by the love of novelty and license,
not by the arts of recruiting officers, but by re-
ligious aud political zeal, mingled with the de-
sire of distinction and promotion. The boast of
the soldiers, as we find it recorded in their SOL
emn resolutions, was, that they had not been
forced into service, nor had enlisted chiefly Tor
the sake of lucre that they were no Janissaries
but free born Englishmen, who had Of their own
accord put their lives in jeopardy for the liber-
ties and religion of England, and whose right
and duty is to watch over the welfare of the ma
ton which they had saved.
A force thus composed might, without injury
to its efficiency, be INDUCED in some liberties
which if allowed to any other troops would have
proved subversive of all discipline. In general,
soldiers who should form themselk es into clubs
elect delegates, and pass resolutions on high
questions of state, would soon break loose from
all control, would cease to form an army, and
would become the worst and most dangerous
mnbs. Nor would it be safe in our time TO toer--
ale any religious meetings at which corporal
versed in Scripture should lead the devotion of
his less gifted colonel and admonish a backslid-
ing major. But such was the Intelligence, the
gravity, and the self command oil the warriors
whom Cromwell had trained, that in their camp
a political organization and religious organiza-
ton could exist without destroying military or.
ganization. The same men who when of duty
were noted as demagogues and field preachers,
were distinguished by seadiness, by the spirit of
order, and by prompt obedience on watch, on
drill, and on the field Of battle.
In war this strange force was irresistible. The
stubborn courage characteristic OF the ENGLISH
people was by the system of Cromwell at once
regulated ana stimulated. Other leaders have
maintained order strict; other leaders have in
spred their followers with zeal as ardent: but
in his camp alone the most rigid discipline was
found in company with the iercest enthusiasm
his troops moved to victory with the precision OF
machines while burning with the widest fanati-
csm of crusaders. From the time when the ar
my was remodeled to the time when il was dis
banded, it never found either in the British Is
land or on the continent, an enemy who would
stand its onset. In England, Scotland, Ireland.
Flanders, the Puritan warriors, often surrounded
by difficulties, sometimes contending against
threeiold odds, not only never failed to CONQUER.
but never tailed TO destroy and break in pieces
whatever force was opposed to them They at
length came to regard the day OF battle as dav
of certain triumph, aud marched against the most
renowned battalions OF Europe with disdainful
confidence. Turenne was startled bv the shont
OF exultation with which his allies marched IN
the combat, and expressed the delight of true
soldier when he learned that it was ever the
fashion OF Cromwell's pikemen to rejoice greatly
when they beheld the enemy and the banshed
cavaliers felt an emotion of national pride when
they saw brigade Of their countrymen out num-
bered by foes and abandoned by allies, drive be-
tore 1t in headong rOut the finest infantry OF
Spain, and force passage interscarp which had
just been pronounced impregnabIe by the abIsst
marshas OF France.
But that which chiefly distinguished the armv
OF Cromwell from other armies was the austere
morality and the fear Of God which pervaded all
ranks. 1t is acknowledged by the most jealous
royalsts, that in that singular camp no GA Oh was
nearu OF drunkenness or gambling was seem and
that during the long dominion of the solderv the
property OF the peaceful citizens and the honor
OF women were held sacred. II outrages were
committed, they were outrages of very different
KIND from those of which victorious army il
generally guilty. No servant girl complained of
the rude gaantry OF the red coats not an ounce
oil plate was taken from the shops OF the cold
smiths; but Pelagian sermon, or a window on
which the Virgin and Child were paiated. pro.
duced IN the Puritan ranks all excitement which
II required the utmost exertions OF the officers to
queil. One OF CromwelPs chief difficulties was
10 RESTRAIN his Pikemen and dragons from invad.
ing by main force the pulpits OF ministers whose
dlscourses, to use the language of that time.
were not savory; and too many Of our catbed.
rails SUI bear the marks of the hatred with which
those stern spirits regarded every veslige Of 90.
perry.
Etects Of Cheap Postage. The Hon. John
M Niles, in recent speech in the United States
senate stated the following facts as substantialv
accurate namely, Number of taxable letters
passing in the mail under the high rates. b tore
the reduction in 1916, % 900, 900 in population
OF more than $4,000 900 Under the reduced rates
the number in l847 arose 50, 900 ,OOO and in ls4S
to 58,O00,O0O. The increases the first wear 1s-
40, was about sixty per cent, and for the three
Years, nearly 100 per cent. BY now reducing
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