New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-08-21

$40, 25O, 0OO or thereabOuts, standing Us IN, say,
| Sl,250 man-a sum which many of our readers
would be glad to earn by hard years work Now,
We are not going to deny the inestimable value or
| the indispensable importance Of the services per-
formed by these gallant men. How could the great
National Idea of the subordination of the many to
the few be maintained in the Territories excepting
| by the terror of the National arms The indie
| feasible, natural right of Platte County. in Mis-
souri, to make laws and levy taxes in Kansas, could
not be upheld fer moment were it not for the bay
| onets and sabers Of our troops. And when the ex
| treme van Of orr Squatter Soyereigns have pro
yoked their Indian neighbOrs over the line to retail
| late their murders and rObberics, how should We
ever chastise and eIterminate the rascally Red
| skins, had We not our regulars to Get upon them
| And so, when negro is to be escorted back to
| happiness, the cortege would not be complete if
composed merely of citizen volunteers, without
representation of the majesty Of the Nation as well
as of the State, in the persons of its professional
champions.
Now, all these things are good to be done, as
well as the conquest of neighborng countries
whenever Freedom finds her Area too narrow and
is obliged to enlarge it so that she may draw her
breath, and God forbid that we should say word
against any Of them. A less matter than that has
been adiudged treason, and we are altogether too
cbary of our necks in these days of Griers and
Kanes, and Lecomptes and Leavitts, to mutter the
faintest objection to these necessares Of our Ma
tional life. We would merely beg leave to suggest
whether they could not all be had at cheaper rate
Twenty millions seems great deal to pay, even
for such blessings as these, aud We cannot doubt
that some way might be devised for providing them
for much less money. We can think of no more
excellent one than We suggested several months
ago, and which We beg leave to enforce again on
the attention of our readers. We mean the scheme
for doing our fighting by contract and by the job,
which we had the honor OF submitting to orr read
ers on a former occasion. There are manifold ad-
yantages attending the proposed change altogether
too numerous to b. perfectly set forth in single
article. We haze room only for the enumeration
of one or two of the most prominent ones.
In the first place, there would be no leakage.
We should not be paying men for fighting when
they were doing nothing OF the Kind. No discreet
manager keeps men under pay and on expense,
when he does not want them. He hires them as
he needs their ser ices, and why could not Uncle
Sam do the samel Take the present distress, for
example. The maignants in Kansas are suspected
Of imagining treason against the paternal Govern
ment, bestowed upon them without any trouble on
their part, by their benevolent neighbOrs on the
other side of the River Missouri. Suppose we had
no army The Secretary Of War would advertise
for sealed tenders to furnish so many men, and to
do up the job in wOrkmanlike manner The con-
tract would be given t. the lowest bidder, and as
soon as the rude eye Of rebellion had been IN.
threaded, the hands would be discharged and go
about their business instead of remaining a per-
manent burden on the country. So as to our In
dian warfare, or war with Mexico, or with Spain;
a. soon as we are ready TO steal the crown Of Cuba
from tie ,helf where its mistress keeps it, and put
it in our pocket, the same simple process would
furnish US with all the men we could want, for just
| as long time as We wanted them, and no longer.
As to any particular training being necessary to fit
men for these arduOus duties, it is all bosh. No
trade is so easily learned that Of CITING; and
| for officers, why the streets are swarning with
| materials which could room be worked up into as
good as the best turned out by the mandatory at
| West Point.
And this brings US to the second head of our dis.
course In the second place, then, We should all
| have fair chance for glory. An odous monopoly
in that prime necessary Of life would be broken up
Now. none but officers bred at West Point, such
as have been hoisted over their heads by Executive
| favor, have chance at immortal fame. Under the
proposed circumstances you or we would stand on
an equal footing with them all, and could send in
sealed tender to pluck bright honor from the pale
| faced moon, or by the hair Of her head from the
bottom Of the deep, with the best of them. That
we should not be competent to fulfill the terms OF
| the contract, should it be awarded to u.s. is the
weakest of inventions. Even if we were not ca
pable Of setting squadron in the field ourselves,
we could have the pick OF the best and most scen
tifc of cut throats in all the world. Good pay and
rations would attract them surely as the carcass
| does the eagles. And, then, We said Just now,
| who knows what vet inglOrious heroes may be
handling yarJstchs or mixing juleps all around u.s.
| Washington was surveyor, Knox bOokbinder
| and ,eller, Greene an anchor.smith, Arnold
country shopkeeper, and so on, and so forth. Who
can say that our plan would not bring to light mill
tary seniuses quite as shining as these, who. We
presume, it will be admitted were quite match
for any Of the productions of West Point, or for
| anv Of the heroes of the Mexican warl We for
bear to produce any more Of the numerous areu-
| merits which occur to us in favor OF our iayOrite
scheme, thinking these sufficient for the present.
| And what we have said as to the Army applies
with at least equal force to the Navy. That branch
of our defense, and Ofense, costs US about
SD, 500, 600, and employs about 10000 men at