The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-11-23

hussell on our Army Of the Potomac

mere nave been no great achievements re-
ceNea oy this army lately, in consequence Of
the division of Ohio and illinois and Indiana
troops to the State Of Kentucky and to the West
ana the largest estimate of the forces in the
ieid does not rise it much above the number
gwen IN one OF my recent letters 1t is the New
Hnglanc States. and the emigration from them
IN the est, which have put forth their STRENGTH
IN TINS war for the Union, and the Puritan and
quaker element of the other states has been an
inl'ea by similar spirit. In the regiments
IN camp there are prayer meetings, and preach
'ngs' anu revivas, and Young Mems Christian
associations the colonies give benedictions.
INC mayors preach, the sergeants pray, and the
battalion march, singing sternly,
oid John Brown lies Wondering in his grave,
But MS soul is marching on
Hallelnjah, Halleujah
~ Hallelujah. Halleujah
Old John Brown lies q moudering in his grave
But his soul is marching on"
NO army was ever 50 well provided, in GUAM.
uty az all events, with chaplains, and in some
men s minds the war for the Union is crusade
Tor all that is good and holy in the world. The
gut that separated Christian Knight from Sar-
aeon Emir was no wider than that which divides
the northern volunteer from the southern chiy-
airy. The contest over, new political relations
will not be more distinct There seems to be
no apprehension that this great mass of armed
men cannot be disposed of by a few circulars
They are an immense power in the state and of
the state, and they can determine issues not on
y with their votes, but with their bayonets.
The regular army, of course, views its volun-
tecr associates with feelings it dares not express
But each is 4 check upon the other, and, while
the former would lady reform some of he mis-
chiefs, as they conceive, of democracy, as it ex-
lists here and would resist any attempt to turn
this into an abolition war, the latter are deter
mined to keep the power they have got, and are
leavened by strong anti-slavery feeling, which
in some regiments, is nearly unanimous. 1t is
scarcely possible to imagine any calling in life
for which man will be as well fitted after three
years absence as he was when he left it. What
= rift three years can make in the purposes of a
life 10 suppose that the immense mass of men
collected here can ever return to their usual av-
ocatioDs is to give them credit for more tenacity
in civil pursuits than human nature exhibits
generally elsewhere. What will lie their humol
at the end of the war if it lasts three years
They will be entitled to their discharge, blu
long before that the farm must have found some
other perintendence, the trade and the pro
, iession must have gone to the dogs, and to ten
of thousands eleven dollars month and loo(
and clothes must bc IL better thing in the presen
than anything in the future can offer to them
They have pay, subsistence, clothing, pensions
: bounty lands, just the same as the regulars
They have, hawever, the privilege O. eectin
their own officers to great extent, which !
open to many objections. Law or custom india
ces the Governors of the States to leave to tn
men of the companies of the State volunteers tn
nomination of their captains and subalterns, an
: the habit OF acting 30 as to please the men he
/ comes inveteratc In any officer who has ono
gained certain amount of favor and hopes t
procure higher advancement 1t will be d yer
glorious proof of the patriotism and purity
the American people if they overcome all tenn
: ta,ions which usually bcset men in power, an
lay down that which they have had conferred .
G them for special object as soon as it shall hay
II been accomplished.