New-York daily tribune., 1861-07-16
TIE WAR FOR THE UNION.
rEow WASHINGTON.
Eniarging the Regular Army
From Our Own Correspondent.

The House yesterday followed ouS iVS SV
Of the day before, by taking up and passing Oo'"
the Army and Navy bills with but little oeDoSe'
Their spirit is admirable. II the army wouio 10
moved 10 such beats Of time, we might nave o"''
and durable peace. But if we have sennqO"''.'
nj one end Of the Avenue, we must nave sei,h
breves at the other. The soldier keeps step 70 inc
Dead March IN Saul, while the Senator and MeilOei
tread to the measure of the strathspey anu ioo"
The Representatives of the people are alrec' nU"
the sources of patriotism and earnestness' Inv
Cenorpls s;t in the icy oOolness OF Isoa'ion'
draw their pay and ratiOns, and suppose 'Da' SuU
whole nation have q plenty OF money anu H'0 '''
fed. .ss With
am much gratifed to be able to agree WIZ" w.
old political opponents. Dr. MeCIerOanu VI
nois takes the proper and the wise posNoh wi'n
,eoora 70 our Army. Tie demaSoglsm oi
standing force, and the declarations againSs ~
sre somewhat overleaped, and have tainted ooOr'
A nation of fifteen thousand miles oi ironuer
ought TO have force large enough to place at
laast two sentries for every mile, but that Is
what we cannot and never could do. lDere
should not at any time be less than fifty thou
sapd men in permanent and wel-appointed iorce'
ulaced ct posts where foreign aud domestic ene-
mics can be repeed. Washington ought never
again 10 be without garrison, and If do not
greatly err it viii be some years before our gun
cities can be left without armed occupation.
The bible is an inestmable treasure, and the
Home Missionary Society beBignant association.
The ten commandments are better code than
Napoleon gave the French, or Livingston the
creoles. Moral saasion does wonders, ana
6rst-rate preaching sometimes brings fifty to
hundred fold to the autumnal garner. Still,
am panied to say that penitentiary is as mucn
a necessity as a church, and gallows and gun as
indispensable as pulpit and prayer-book. 30 long
as the world and the people in it are as now,
and the change for the better is not SO marked
ms to be startling, We must have something 70
held evil in check beyond the Golden Rule and The
Statutes at Large. Twenty-Five thousand men
would have closed this war before 1t began, IL
You win pardon an Irshism and now you VIII
need in aD-home guards and marching lines
half million. You have saved your penny In
not having one, and ROW you are looking about
10 borrow the pounds to pay for yeur deiln-
auency. viii you now unlean the WIS.,
dom of the experience ard go back to the
fouyi The weakness which Alexander Ham
nton saw with prescient prophecy comes
10 us IN present observation. 1t is
wisp of straw or o twisting Of withes.
Guided BY great genius it is sovereign and grandi
held BY incompetent hands it is o shell or a
shadow Of power. What sort of a Government
was il for the last three months of James Bu-
ehanan most pitiful paraphrase--a travesty,
The mere shreds and patches Of administration.
1t was moi the purple Of power bat the garber-
dine Of shrinking and shyering atOny, worse than
feeble because below contempt.
You may sleep for forty years with loaded
musket by your bedside, and never need to use
Il; but the knowledge that it is there may save
your own throat from the knife and your goods
from the grasp of the spoIer. Of all sentiments,
that OF reverence to high qualities Ofcommand most
preserves the strength of civil institutions. We
love goodness and admire talent, but we instinct
lively uncover our heads and bow with a some
thing Of devotion to force Of mind and mastery Of
will. He whose clear voice rings out with au.
thority on the sinking deck or sends it's stern
mandate in the deyouring fire, or the destructive
ferceness of mob and rotor much more, the
one who places himself in the van of a mighty
natiOD moving in the inspiration of strength TO
revolution which stamps great deeds upon his
tory-he it is who has awe and obedience while
living, and eulogy and elegy when dead; and
more, the memorial arch and the scuptured
column.
Build and sustain your Government as you set
tle the foundations Of your dwellings, upon the
granite. Strengthen it with girder and beam,
mortise and teDon, drift-bolt and brace. Upon
the smiling front of benevOlence and mercy LET
there be the shadipgs of wrath for violated Ordi-
nance, and behind It have the mailed glove and
cartel-ax.
lfyou have not had your fill Of rebellion start
ing to arms, with people helpless and without
weapons, some Of US have, and the experience
will last us for lifetime. The next generation
may 70 back to the sickle and the slunber Of
peace Fatal as has been our mi,udgment in
this we are not the only sufferers. The posterity
which takes from our hands the trusts, must take
also the ineumbrance. The debt We incur they
are to answer 10 in payment. While we have
prated of standing armies, and thought Of Greece
end Rome, SyDs, Cromwell, ard BcnsParte, the
fpiquity which has blinded US comes 70
Us with its heavy penalty. Do if yoa
please, gentlemen, tickle the ears Of your con-
sttaents with some other pleasant tattle than this
Of subvertng soldiers. Talk to the farmer Of
bullocks and Siberian wheat, Of cuttings and eeed-
iings, Of compOsts and the chemistry Of sole.
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