Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-01-31
A. B. LONGSTREET.

. A. B. LONGSTREET
The Offer Of the New York Troops.
The recent tender of the services of the
First Division of New York State troops by
Maj. Gen. Sandford to Gov. Morgan, seems
to have created considerable dissatisfaction
among the rank and file of the Division.
The Herald contains column of commu-
nications expressing indignation at the Gen.
erals course, of which the following is a
sample:
see by your mornings issue that Major
General Sanford has, with the concurrence
of the Division Board of Officers, rendered
to Gov. Morgan the services of the entire
First Division, for any duty the present emer
gency may require. Now would like to
know by what authority Major General Sand
ford, or the Division Board of officers, has to
offer the services of the New York State Mi.
litia without the consent of each REGIMENT
which, I know, has not been obtained; and
I think there are many who would object
to 60, so long as the Republicans persist in
disfranchising the South of her rig hts
And | would like to ask if it would not be
imprudent on the part of Maj. General
Sanford, under the present excited state Of
public feeling existing in the city, to order
the military out Of New York? 1t seems to
me the action of Major General Sanford
confirms what | have often seen in
some of the New York papers, of his ut.
ter incapacity to fill the high position he
now occupies.
Among number of similar commuuica-
tions in the Journal of Commerce, We find
the following, from member of the gallant
"Seventh :"
General Sanford has offered the services
of the First Division of the New York
State Militia to the Governor of the State,
should he be called upon to assist in main
tanning the integrity of the Union. Very
patriotic-or very ambitious to see his name
in the papers, hard to determine which.
Better wait till he receives orders to offer
that which he has no authority of himself
to grant. The first Division would no doubt
be prompt to render any aid in their power
to maintain the integrity Of the Union.
which is dear as life to most of them. But
l, for one. as an old member, would like to
say that if the fourth of March should come
round without proper concessions having
been made-concessious just, lawful, and
constitutional, to allay the storm and guar.
antee security to every one of the States of
this Union-I would be happy to join the
First Division and proceed to Washington
to stay the inauguration of the power which
has caused the deplorable state of affairs
now existing, till sufficient guarantee is
given that the agitatiug causes will be ig-
nored, and the rendering of the Constitu-
ton, as it has always been interpreted by
the Supreme Court of the United States, be
conceded.
A letter from New York to the Philadel-
phia Ledger says, on the same subject:
The city military are all in a ferment,
owing to Major General sandford's tender
of the First Division to Governor Morgan,
in case an emergency should arise out of
the crisis in our national affairs rendering
their services desirable There can be no
doubt that our citizen soldiery are, every
man of them, loyal to the Uuiou; but be.
fore any official plcdge was given, commit
ting them to take part in civil war, there
are not few of them who think they should
have been consulted.
This feeling probably fuds the freest ex-
preston among the members Of the cele-
brated Seventh Regiment, the officers of
which will probably unite in an address to
the Major General, in the course Of few
days, gently reminding him that they are
citizens as we'll as soldiers, and have a
"will' to be consulted in such cases, as
we'll as orders to be obeyed.
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