The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-09-14
The Gerat Need of the Hour.


Ne have not seen the great need of tho hour
more clearly and truthfully set forth in fewer
Wil6{ds than in the following from the Boston
Journal of the 10Th. Let Vermont profit by the
s1{gestions
s. MORE SOLDIERS.
MI We consider that about the only important
rx1otical remark that was made at the grand
Union meeting in Faneuil Hall, was Gen Will
$3.50 declaration that we need $50, 900 more
rasn in the field Gen. Mcclellan said he,
speak what know-needs $50, 900 men on
TN Potomac tonight, and if he had them the
tc0 Before him would be vanquished in L week"
lkn we hear these things and be unmoved Z
No know they are true. We know that Gen.
tU Ro down to New Orleans on the tide OF vieto-
~ We know that Gen. Grant wants more
rner 10 give his position at Cairo and Kentucky
the impregnabilty which its Importance de-
ma1Gs. We know that the only apprehension
fslknbou, Gen. Rosecrans in Western Virginia
isoRing to the inferority of his fl rces to the
1reb6is pitted against him. We know that if
9Th. w COL had more men at Fortress Monroe he
eoii1d put them to use Of which the tlatteras
expediton was only Il slender hint. In short,
We know that the transccndent need OF the cam
paign at this stage is more men.
4 III ere we are in the second week in autumn,
'Whcn we ought to be beginning to moyc-hut
Wae cannot move. We are hampered and pinned
to the ground everywhere, for simple want OF
forces. We, with our twenty millions of men,
~ Still waiting day by day, and wondering
when and where the enemy--Wlth their eight
nnillions to draw upon-will' attack us This
ought not so to beat least any longer. We
let the past 60, and take the matter up as it is
rixht before US Wcarc at the beginning of the
very bes. season of the year for pushing on the
WI, when, if we were duly prepared, we might
hfeak the front of this rebellion in three months
and display campaign thatwould be Of immor-
MI honor and priceless value to Us as a nation
Hit is allowed to pass unlmproved, the cold
weather will set in, materially interfering with
drill, EN- barrassing all movements, and immense.
n enhancing the cost of all operations. And
yet, it requires three months at least to make
rood soldiers. Every one, then, can see just
where we are. But, " we can afford to wait
batter than the rebels" So we can ii we are
enployng the interval better, otherwise not.
W they are to continue TO have the most men at
every probable point of conflict, drilled and Off
ceked ut least as we'll as oars, then we shall GER
tAinly have new sense OF the old maxim that
sdelays are dangerous
How shall we get more men into the field :?
The press can do much more in this direction
than it has done hitherto Every man can DO
eomethng within his sphera-go himself, or
make the way clear for his ncignbor to 60, or
contrbuta his mite Of influence toward arousing
y deeper feeling Of interest in this stupendous
conflict. Here is where we all fail, and let us
6etabout reformation. The Government can do
much If the enlistnents arc not going on fast
enough, and they have not been till within a few
days certainly, a remedy should be attempted.
Drafting should be resorted to, in the absence
BIZ other means-but 1t will do no harm to re |
Member that the capture of the Hatteras forts
has been more efIicacious than Il general order
would have been. Blu t wlateyer methods may
be pursued, the one result must be realized
We must have more men in the field within
hort time.