Litchfield enquirer., 1861-09-26
WHOLE NO. 1895
From the Hartford Courant. MORE MEN WANTED

are needed from the North. Senator Wilson raises the cry in Boston, and the St. Louis pa- pers echo it from the West. Meanwhile enlist ments are dragging along in this State, and all the regiments called for by Gov. Buckingham are not filled out and sent into the field as they should be. Perhaps glorious victory or a ter rible defeat is needed to spur the Tagging enthu- siasm of the war material. The following ap- peal from St. Louis is sent to us in the EUening Neos, of that city, with the request that we will lay it before the citizens of Connecticut There are points in it to which we might take excep- tion, but we prefer to print it as it is, and let every man make his own criticisms:
 | NEw ENGLAND AND THE NoRTHwEsT.-Wha hat has become of the war spirit in New England We see little exhibition of it, of late At the commencement of hoslties, it burst out with the honor of being the standard bearer in the contest. Why this sudden extinction of patri- otlc fire! Why this apathy that prevails in Massachusetts-in Connectcut-in Maine in Vermont-in New Hampshire, on the thres- hold of the war they promised to support with men and means to triumphant end?
 Did the patriotism of New England exhaust itself in the enlistment of few regiments for three months? Is it grown 1ukewam because the war has lasted beyond three months :? Is it incapable of the test of three years sacrifice, | England propose for herself the easy task of do- ing the ideal part of tho war-of defining the programme. dictating to the Government, and uttering learned magazine theories of the nature of the contest, while the Northwest plunges in- to the blood and dust of of tho combat, and bears all the burden and heat of the day?
 The New England States have done but little for the war thus far. They have furnished. we arc told only l7,000 troops to the Government. ! IIftIn ubi1a will hoI-o fun nished 45,000 and Indiana 10000, and young Iowa half as many as all the New England States put together and Missouri Quite as many | as all the New England States put together. | And these Northwestern troops are not mere holiday soldiers, who have enlisted for frolick- ing promenade by railroad or steamer to the Potomac, to abandon the cause and march home to the sound of the enemys guns, because their time of service was up. They are soldiers of the Union heartily devoted to the cause they have enlisted to support-cheerfully marching dernesses, and some of them .fghting the most brilliant and 6loodiest battle of Me campaign ten days qfter Meir term of scruice had erpired. In short, the soldiers of the Northwest have done aN the hard fighting, and reaped aU the laurels thus far
 New England must learn lesson from the Northwest, or else she must descend from her position of leader, and take secondary rank in the contest. She is able to furnish 90,O00 troops, and she must furnish them, if the war is to be waged in earnest. She has a swarmng population; she has wealth she has ships, railroads steamers and all the facilities for rap id organization and concentration of troops. She IS moro vitally dependent on the Union and more deeply interested in tho maintenance of it than the Northwest. She must make e4ertions and sacrifices proportionate to this dependence and interest. The Union spirit of New England must i, E be allowed to degenerate into fickering, driA olling, dead-alve sentiment that exhibits itself only in dissertations in the AHantic Monthly. The Northwest is in honest earnest; but even the mighty throbs of the patriotic heart of the Northwest will grow sluggish if it sees luke Warnness and apathy in the movements of those States to whom the Union ought to be as dear as to it. If New England cannot lead let it follow. Let it follow the Northwest with Q share of the spirit that exhibited itself at Will son Creek, Rich Mountain and Carrick's Ford, and the Union will be triumphantly sustained.
 As to the number of men now in the field, the following estimate from the Journal of C0m- merce, (under it's new management) is about as near the truth as we can get It will be seen that the center as well as tho extreme recogni- zes the fact that noo7'e are needed from the North Let Connecticut take heed to her share of the work
 "We have every reason to believe that the federal forces, though not rapidly augmenting, are being organized and disciplined with increas- ing activity, and that eventually they will be in readiness for offensive operations on a formida- ble scale. We may doubt, however, whether the federal army is yet even approaching the measure of strength which the exigency re- quires. On the 1st of September the Confede. rate force was estimated at not far from 100000, distributed as follows:
 In Eastern Virginia. ...................9 9O,000 western virginia. ........: ..lOOOO New Orleans, Mobile, Pensacola, Savan-
 nah, Apalachicola, and Charleston. .15O00 North Carolina. ..................... ,OOO
 192,OOO
 The United States forces were estimated at upwards of 2O6OOO, as follows: ..- Atand around Washington. n........... 100000 Baltimore. ..iUOe Harper's Ferry. o,OO0 Frederick. ..Z,UCU Fortress Monroe. .6,OOO Western Virginia. 10000 Aggregate. e...................... .l50000 Missouri and mouth of Ohio and
 Cairo. .56000 III GIo uelu ..s EUO,UUU l It was possible that in addition there might be put under arms in the course of September about l50000 more but at the rate recruiting is now going on this figure may not be realized. If 1t were the total we apprehend would fall short of the wants of the Government. The 5O0,G00 called for by President Lincoln is the minimum with which the Federal Commander -in-Chief should enter the field in order to meet the expectations of tue Northern States and
 if there is any reason for msgiving, it is precise.
 y here that the mind of the nation has not yet