The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-06-20

The expense Of the pay clothing and subsistence of these
" = nnossible to estimate without referring to the
concentrations Of the different States for that pur-
nose We should think it cannot be less nan hVe nun
ared millions Of dollars And where does all this money
come fom From the profits OF the nqustriops classes
The soldier earns nothing he seed and reaps no
harvest but that Of blood He lives by the aoors ohes
and repays them by defending his country when his sword
is required While thus employed his profession in the
highest degree honorable but when he becomes the pas
sye instrument Of he ambition avarce of his rulers
and turns his sword the bosoms Of his coanymen he
degeneraes into little better than a cut-throat
1t is well known that the standing armies OF Europe in
time Of peace occupy this dsgraceul position They
not SO much instruments in defending 10 expressing the
people; and when occasion requires turn their arms
against their countrymen With little hesitation as il they
we're foreign invaders. Almost everywhere in Europe
standing armies the passive instruments ofkings in
pressing the struggles Of the people for liberty
Yet the people compelled to pay the very whose
bayones are turned against their bosoms whenever they
hrob with indignation towards their oppressors or they
attempt attain that position among their felowcreaures
originally assigned them by God and nature They must
pay feed aud cothe those rapacious oilers they must
work their hands the bone and deprive themselves Of
the neeessaries of life; they must bow in abjec
Difference these stuffed and whskered heroes dare
to utter word raise hand against them for any vio
laton Of the domestic 6resde outrage those they
love The soldiers the nobility Of France said the
Emperor Louis Napoleon the other day. and Of course
entitled to all the ancient privileges Of that order In
short every in Europe with the exception OF
Russa) is essentially military government depending
not on the attachment of the people but the point Of
the bayonet welded by hired soldiers whose only aerna
tive is obedience or death
1t urged by the advocates Of despoc power that these
stopendous armies indispensable to the Of
public order and the prevention Of universal state Of
anarchy They say the people have become so centous
and ungovernabe that nothing but force restrain
them and that there remains but
or unbounded icentousness OF chains we do not believe
word Of this; but IL 1t true who made them 50
To what to ascrbe this alleged ignorance and de-
pravity7 IL II not in great the fault OF their
governments whose policy il has been for centuries TO
crush the people the earth and keep them there bound
by thousand invisible ligaments, like the Giant GULL
yer among the Lputans7 Has IL not been their nvari
able policy TO m them forever for being Slaves by depr
wing them Of every vcstge Of freedom, and condemnng
them 10 life of ccaseless toll which left neither time nor
opportunity for the cultivation Of any faculty Of the MINI
but that which s exercised in the scquision Of their daily
bread
Whatever The people Of Europe may be their rulers have