Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-13

The BifBcalfy Or RecruItina at CHARLES
ton-The FrsvaIling Discsutent There.
The Charleston IS. o. correspondent Of
the New York Tribuas thus writes on the
9th inst:
South Carolina Is a barren field for the re.
cruiting business; hence, those who have
been sent ont to recruit have been compelled
to 20 beyond her borders or return without
men. Asa consequence, squads Of new re-
cruits arrive almost daily from Georgia, Ala
bama occasionally from North Carolina and
even Virginia and Maryland. Nearly the
entire available force Of South Carolina is
already in the field, mostly as volunteers.
The experience already had in the business
has quenched the ardor of her sons, and
made them unwilling q enlist. A number
of companies have shown an ominous I'M
e~asiness, and many men have returned to
their homes and business. Most of them vol
unteered under q supposed emergency, TO
engage in q kind Of patriotic spree. The fun
Of the thing has worn away, and nothing but
drudgery and an irksome service remains.
The case has not been improved at all by
the fact that the control of matters has been
transferred from themselves to JEFF. Davis,
thus allowing them no longer to be their
masters, but mere soldiers under the
direction Of officers not of their own choos-
ing or State, with a policy foreign TO their
own. This change has had the necessary
effect to destroy the tone and spirit that
promised so much at the outset. The two
months that have elapsed have afforded
time for reflection. Tho great body of the
soldiers called into the field during that
time under a sudden impulse are men well
to do in the world, many of them gentlemen
of wealth and ease planters, professional
men, and men of business of some kind or
| other, which they forsook with no expecta-
tion ofbeing long absent.
This is the season Of the year when planters
desire to be on their plantations, and when
the welfare of the State, as we'll as their W
in particular, requires their presence and SUI
pervision. Their absence is working a seri-
Gus injury, not ONLY to themselves, but to
the aggregate products of the State. Pro-
fessional men have been away from their
business quite as long as they can be with
out entailing ruinous sacrifice, which they
did not contemplate when they volunteered.
Few of all the 1000 or 5000 men now I'M
der arms ever contemplated a long absence
from their homes and business, and least of
all did they intend to become mere soldiers.
1t was what may be termed the high duty of
citizens that impelled them to take up arms;
a paramount duty laid on every man in
times of invasion or great sudden emergen~
cies.
Probably the very last thing a single one
of them contemplated was the contingency
that JEFF. Davis would be over them, with
power to prevent the very thing for which
they particularly volunteered, compelling
them to await his time, to adopt his ways
and policy, and abandon their own. General
Beauregard could not have failed to discover
these things on his visit of inspection to
Morris and Sullivan's Islands within the last
few days. Carolinians do not know him,
and little wish his presence. 1t reminds
them that they have been transferred to
another head and direction, and they, and
the officers of their own choice, in a manner
Inundated and superseded. l am assured
by some of the most discreet of the Carolina
ans that a blow has been dealt the cause,
from which it will not recover, and the
morale of the army we'll nigh destroyed.