Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1861-1862, 1861-09-23

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The Charleston Mercury, deeply smbusd vi b Tie Con:
ed.rats idea co client With ourselves aud from the
ssms point rsprobs'es thu astic, fbssoving on
Confederate authorities all the honor Of orgsuiz and
eouppinr our armies There glory enough for s but
the States are entitled To their fol- share The effort To
deprive them of their ,ron and to scr the Confsd
crate authorities at their eIpps would argue that our
separation from the Yankee system 10 rather nominal
than real There Is no doub. the Yankee shadow still
rests heavily upon Us; that there are men among 10
who with Confederate States on THAR lips, still have
Federal consol ation and Federal corruption 10 their
hear These people coneder that have set anoth'
or Government and departed from the Yankees for
higher end than to establish another fountain Of patron
age and another butch Of highly salsried ocsn There
are persons who have been long sucking pap In Wssh-
ingtou and know all the roper Of official corruption who
have down here fully intent setting In operation
Just such another mschns exists in Washington. With
the same raw material with the amount of patron
age and power in the Central Government and vi the
same e1haussss quantity Of addition to Hon. sscre-
tares the scheme Is not upproniking With such sy
tenn 10 full operation, the stern integrity Of JEFF Davis
will scarcely be ibls to prevail. Cerain, It L. be will
not have pus,d from the stage dozen years before TIE
rottennees Of Richmond will be on par with that Of
Washington.
If We are ftfor freedom-if earnest and deter
mined TO found pure and durable free Government
must check this central ring tendency 1t orc We must
abesh those features Of institutions which assuias
"a to the Yankees-ve must cease to have elective
King dispensing hundred millions Of revenue. and pei
lung, in spite of himself the fountains Of public and
private virtue. Against such system, no President,
however pure be may be, ,ssfOy contend Il
will prove too strong for him. and BY the degere
rating process, that Lircol, ssce,ding Wssh
ipeon shall We behold Lincoln 10 the chair Of Dav
The cornexion b,tweeu cause and Ell cs Is invnobls.
We subjoin the article rom the Mercury:
OUR ARMY, WHO CREATED IT.
Never, We believe, in the history Of war has army
been go up, armed and equipped the existing army
i of the Confederate States The Government, which
usually raises armies has had little nothing 70 do with
the raising of army Il consists of volunteers who
asked be received soldiers 70 defend the Confeder
ale States and oil that the Government did 70 assent
TO the offer of our volunteers enroll them It's books
as soldiers of the Confederate States and designate their
field of action. Nor ID the Government the mears 10
arm cothe or equip the army. The States furnished the
arms, directly and indirectly. giving them to the Confed
crate Government. The States also clothed and equip
pd the soldiers which they sent out into the service Of
the Confederate States; and when great battle was
fought the States and people Of the States have sent
and surgeons, set up hospitals, and supplied the
necessities by which thousands Of the sick and wound
i cd have been saved from death. The Confederate
Government was totally Incompetent to minister to
the necessities of the wounded, sick and dying
| of our army; and IL they had been left eKc.u-
svely TO It's care by this time half of the army of
the Potomsc from bad food and inadequate surgical and
medical attendance might have beer uuder the green
earth Yet In the face of these notorious facts what
d. We see In some Of The papersi We zee 1t boldly as
serted that the Confederate Government raised equip
ped and placed In the field cur whole army-an army
greater in numbers than the army OF the United States
aud We called upon 10 admire and praise the immense
the unparalleled energy 1t has displayed In this mighty
achievement Thus the States, nd the people Of the
States are ignored and the whole credit Of the exist
ence Of our army assumed for the Confederate Gov
ernment To show how far this Is true there IL conclu
sive There Is portion Of the Confederate States
srmy which it vas left TO the Confederate Government
.xesivsy raise At the frss Congress which asssn
bled Law was passed, establishing . regular army Of
l. 900 men, On the Government devolved the duty Of
raising and qu,png this foc for the CoDfsd rate ser
vice. At the time this Law passed, recruits could
have been had in all the great cities OF the Morrill, %
| well as ef the South. How many regiments OF this
army HIS been raised ald equippedr Not one
IT, then, the Confederate Government has been urs
bls to raise or equip single regiment Of the eleven
thousand men who authorised 10 be raised a. the
regular army Of the Confederate States IL reasonable
that Il raised the two hundred and fifty thousand men
Who now constitute the army Of the Confederate States
And show that the Confederate Government did not
arm and equip the existing army Of the Confederate
States there is also similar test At the hrst Congress
an appropriation made for the Confederate Govern
ment TO purchase arms. At that time, and for two
months and half after, ports we're open and arms
could easily have been purchased in Europe and brought
into the Confederate States. The opportunity was neg
ected and no arms were purchased or imported from
abroad All the our troops possess With the eI-
cpplon Of lately cast, we're furnished BY
the States. The Virginia Arsenal Alone We see Il stated
has furnished the Confederate Army upwards OF sixty
thousand stand Of small arms. Yet We are told to cd
mire and applaud the gigantic army the Government at
Richmond has raised The noble efforts Of the States
aud the peopl Of the States are appropriated TO coths
our officials at Richmond with repute and popularity
IL appears already busy manufacturing hs,ory,
| in orier 70 make Il conpmptble.