Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1861-09-27
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FRIDAY MORNING, SEPT. -, 1861.

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FRIDAY MORNING, SEPT -, 1861.
eve o}e serve that the Ffe,man and burlington
FRO Press very much an ictcd because the
Governor has lot lvauced altogether ahead Of
the authorities at Washington, aud raised aud
equipped regiments without waiting for the or
ders II the Federal Government Ii strikes us that
this censurc Is aimed at the President. Secretary
of Nar, and Lieutenant General commanding, as
vel as against the Governor
The above is the first paragraph Of a snlrl-
ing sort of an article in Wat5n's Daily Joprn
al or the l7tb directed against the Mont
pelier Freeman and the Burlington Free
Prcss The Free Press has at mo- time in
l1lgel in grumbing or carpins at the con-
duct of the Governor, in reference to War
'matters-whch by the bye, is wha. cannot
bc said Of Ua1on's Joonol-aud at first we
were puzzled to see what the Journal was
talking about. Its very spicy hints that the
editor of the Freeman and Free Press would
do well to 90 "straight ahead and enlist
regiment, or a dozen Of them, if they like
"Colonels ioy jbe first two regiments to
volunteer on their own part, we tried to
appreciate, as far as we could We presume
shere must be some sharp point there,
though 'we couldn t see it. We presume
however, that what the Journal said, was
meant to be what Artemas Ward calls "a
s1rtGs00n.
Don't wait for the President, nor the Secretary
Of War, nor the Governor, but 20 ahead Indeed
the Governor has exhausted the powers committed
10 him by the Legislature, having called for the
9Th and last authorized regimeut.-PossibIv the /
place Of the lst may be supplied. In any event |
the financial argument is very strong in favor Of
voluntary operations as the expense of the regi- |
ments Of accepted) viii fall entirely on the init
ed States, and not on the State. BE il remember |
ed that the 'rt7a pay by the State amounts to
$4,000 a year for each regimeut-say 100000
year for tho five regiments which will soon be in
the field. The United States refunds no part Of
this sum.
Ah! Now we b.sin to understand. \ few
days ago We slid that .he two Vermont
Regiments, now about to march, should
have been sent to the field weeks age, and init
mated that the petty consideration of saving
about s. 900 a month to the State, by not
calling them out, had had something To- do
with the delay. \ lew weeks ago, it was
stated distinctly in Waton's Journal
" The opinion of the Members Of Conercss was
that it was best to raise only regiment at a
time, vEl.ss fbs Var Department sbo,I} rCgpire
m'Ts. Bcason-Nemout pays $50 600 year frtrl,
10 each OF her regiments, which the z. s. Govern
mcnt Will not refund"
The Editor Of Walton's Dai'g Jouag1 is
one Of the Members Of Congress from Yer
mont-a very worthy onc, too--and we took
the statement as one made by authority.
Nov tnowlng well every one Of the Vermont
Delegation, we are sure that not a shade Of
doubt can be cast upon their patriotic spirit
their zeal t. have Vermont stand among
the foremost in support OF the Government
OF the country. But for all that, we
are not backward TO sly, that so far as
the saving u the State Of Vermont Of
SO ,000 10 81 600 a month. for every month
of every regiment which was kept out Of the
fed, was a reason for delay in raising and
Organizing men for the service, it was a very
poor one When the Presidents first Pro-
clamation called for -, goo men on the 18th
of April, no sane man in the loyal States
doubted that four or five times that number
would soon be needed, as the event has proved.
ON the Goth Of April, the Legislature of this
State authorized and required the Governor
80 raise, organize, and muster without delay
tlco regiments, and gave HIM a discretionary
power TO raise four more and to encourage
the enlistment, it provided an extra pay OF s.
a month to each non-commissioncd officer,
private, and musician, over and above
'he pay furnished by the L. S. Government
Surely the Legislature did not intend that
the orha lay So promised should be made to
operate as a reason for keeping mon oar Of
the service, instead Of hurryinc them into
1t. Yet if We understand " alton's Journal,
we may infer that such has been the effect,
and that instead Of an caqrRess to get
readY for service from this State its full pro-
portion Of the 1905 zoo men asked for by the
.
6,0O0,) there has been disposition to wait
for them TO be specifically called for from the
{. $ War Department. Who believes that
il, when the the last two regiments went to
the field. there had been rendered to the
Government not two, but freregimcnts fully
ready for service, the Government would not
have welcomed the offer? More than that
who doubts that if the mark had been set at
fire regiments, and the work Of mastering
and enrolment had been pushed enersetically
aud without stop, the whole five might have
been ready very nearly as soon as the two
were Aud as to the necessary arms and
equipments, they might have been procured
also-if contracted for bctimcs-as soon as the
men were ready to use them,
As we said hclOre. we have not been dis
posed to find fault with the conduct Of our
State authorities. They may have seen diff
culties which We do not know of, and at any
rate, we cannot doubt their good intentions
but as to the Tecuniary reason which the
Journal thinks so much Of, we can only say
that we think the people Of this State are
more anxious to save the National Govern
ment, than they are to save their money.
PLoT To SEIZE THE PRESIDENT.
The New York Commercials Washington
correspondent writes as follows, Sept. Is:
14e segerment obtained information, some two