Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-09-15

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War In America. II
A letter appeared in the L'Opinion Ma !,
.ionare, of Pari-. Aug. Is, dated New York.
July 81, which IL sscribed to the pen OF I,
Prince Napoleon, then and now making
tour of observation in this country. From
this letter we make the following extracts, as
contained In translation in the N. 7.
HraH.
You will probably INQUIRE. among what
classes of the population volunteers are re-
cruited, and what is the motive that impels
the volunteers to eulist-patriotism or the
eleven dollars a MONTH
confess that have not seen enough vol
anfeer Regiments to hazard an opinion on that
point. The opiBien OF thuse who look upon the
worst side of things II. that in contrast with
the personnel of the militia, which represents
the middle, industrious, honest, but not very
wsr-like class of the population, the volun-
teer army will only present the scum OF
emigration and will be recruited among that
,ating mars of adventurers whom Europe |
sends to the United States and whom work |
Dir gcsts as well in the New As in the Cd
World. 1t Is certain, on one side, that 1t rs I
not the millionaire bankers of Philsdelphia |
and New York that become simple 'uavesi |
and on the OIher, that firegners prevail 10 |
the ranks of the new -corps.
Hence the tendency which you must have
retnaI ked TO national re con p ,Bies and even
regiments France, Scotland. ireland, Ger
many aud 1 ally have given their rames, va
ried 10 thousaad shapes, to great number
of corps, the elements of which have BEEN
furnished by those countries respectively
In the clashing of warlike nationaliiies, that
which eciipses all others is the French nation
ality, person6td. of course, in the ZDuave.
Everything at New York is in the Iuave
style-fashious, hand bills, theatrical speeta-
cles More u yuaves ttne Uniform OF the In
perial Guard) are met in the streets OF New
York than in the streets ofParis. Whole
companies are really composed of French
men who have served less or more aud
who seem to look down upon all other sol-
| diers-American, English. Germans, &C.
| from the top of the tower of Solferino or the,
| Malakoff | should be sorry to pass rash
tjud gment on brave 'mpatriots, who appear
| 10 me very careless, very gay. very socIabie;
but cannot help rejecting upon what series
| of adventures have been able to bring these
| Parisiaps from the Place Maubert to the
| shores of the Potomac, there 10 risk thetr
lives for the greater glory OF President LIN
coin, at the rate of eleven dollars per month.
Seriously, l do not belevetbat the eleven
1 dollars 90 for everything At first, with
more clearness OF vision than Americans,
English and Germans, they appeared to me
to reckon little on the eleven dollars; but
what can certify is, that they are quite in
| sensible to the glory of the flag with the
thirly-four stars aud the fate of the untortu-
| nate negroes You see>by this what the weak
side of all this organization is: 1t Is not an
. affair of appreciation, il is an affair OF arith
metic. The weak side, the very weak side, il
the eleven dollars. For 100,0 600 men, aud OF
:. that footing. the expense is five and half mil
lions of francs per month, or sixty-six mil
lions per year.. For 400 900 men the ex
: pense is uuadfupled-two hundred and sixty
four millions per year. And reeollect tina
. this enormous figure represents only the sol
diers' pocket money; that the provisioning o
American soldiers is more abundant and ex
| nru i've than with us by nearly double; that
: in fine, the most irightful dilapidation ant
3 disorder confessedly reign in what Is caiie'
D the military administration, and which
e really only a continuation OF measure
q adopted from day to day by localities for th
e account of the federal government for tn
! purpose OF supplying the prime necessities
?, the troops. So the North Americans estimat
4 the cost of the war at over million dollar
8 a day, That is enormous for country r.
!, duced to about twenty millions OF lnnab
l. tauts, deprived of its great element oil con
y, Observation-Disclosures enjoying doubil
T | credit One thing that is certain ls, that To
Z militia soldiers have as yet seen nothing
the pay promised them; mat at rev Q,
o. tumultuary demands of soldiers wives,
ne whom the pay of their absent husbands shou
u mace been b ludcd, aud who nave made as
81 less ouiery for it even at the doors OF u
. City Hall.
rs When the great battle of the 21:t W
Is fought at Manassas Junction. the directit
lis of it was given TO a General Mcdowell VII
's out its being easy to- say why's aGo N9S,
Is still less comprehensive, is that Gen, Sc1i
The generaiissimo, very brave. capable al
D" esteemed 8, Id er, gave he order to tue who
'1 armv to attack The enemy. and TO engage
en- a general affair, without going himself On {
y field of bat. le. | reserve 10 myself TO VII
'a you hereafter on the strange position ol |
NC arm es, as well on the Potomac as IN I
provinces, aud l will endeaVor to learn I
ias truth on the subject of the battle OF the III
on which was so shametel an affBir for the Nor
ny That which can tell you il that here, at M
'u' York. they have taken the matter very
ng concern, div. Thy have not appeared I
re- | least discouraged or Inundated. The TEL
IN ments that fed. abandoning everything
III guns. baggage, &c.-retnrn to the city da
because their term OF service mas tXpii'
Us aud because they couiess they have b
TO Ell M ge OF war. E-v,r mind: these bra
peouie enter, and are received as c1nquero
with music at their head, professions and
N. clauatlons of the people. ,wers and illuT
ng nations. Il is not that they d ssimu late th
retreat. or rather rout. They rela Q to tn
D. fellow citizens how they have been ute
ne routed, aud these stories inaame the imagi
ton and exalt the enthusiasm of their heare
!. That is doubtless, one OF the traits OF
to American character. There Is no quest
as about peace or Cancellation, and the put
In | mind in the North Is more opposed TO 1t tt
ore | ever. The hate between tbs two parties
the driven to an extraordinary degree. 1t m
ow, even be said that the Northern Sta
low have completely forgotten the original
ere, lives of the quarrel-tarlffs, negroes,
mp They have but enc thing at heert--tnat Is
the honor of the confederation, the insult done
ieh the flag of the Uuion. The South has TT
all den it uuder foot; therefore the South m
be subdued Negropbilism has always
RED an uncomfortable place in the quarrel,
was has been only Pretextj to-day the W
de- s.abolition" is not even heard pronounced
the It is q war purely political, war OF passi
aek and it ia really strange to see people
LOT positive, SO attached TO their material IN
reu ests, 80 foreign to our traditional errors
nay to our Old World prejudices. II you eho
fight each other only Tor a sentiment, 70
rom point OF honor. and almost through a chi
egi- rous spirit. But there, is nothing save [
ney trast. or rather inconsequencn, IN the I'm
was States. They vote hundreds of miliions,'
we're knowing that they will not pay them; !
vote soldiers, we'll knowing that the sold
ZEN will not come, and in spite Of very pa
and DISPOSITION, they continue with an unqu'
ines "a ph.t;nacv war which ruins them-a
day; without object for all the affair can have
ived one issue-the political separation OF
North and South, and the resumption OF
ven mercial affairs between them on the same
are ing as in the past. Prodigality and ava
lere. enthusiasm for the war, enthusiasm to Sta
ants So ,oI;ti,al fanaticism and egotis
as sneculations is the Incompetent
lney melange which have found here.
ions
* in From Richmond.
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