The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1862-12-04
what Has pennsylvania Done

In looking over the operations ola year,
we sometimes become almost IL rcreduous
of the things that are most palpable, so
numerous have actually been the results
sld the achievments OF Pennsylvania. If
one year ago, the people had. been told that
what has been done, would become a part
of their labor in discharging their duty
to the national government, 1t IS very
likely that the very men who now regard
the action OF Pennsylvania as only halt IA
test of the power OF the Commonwealth,
would then have pronounced the task I'M
possible For instance Pennsy ylvauia has
paid S3 100000 tax to the United States
government-paid this sum in advance,
before she has gathered a single penny
from her people. What other state could
have or has done as much At the same
time that this enormous SUN was advanced
to the government, the other expenses Of
the state were fairly pet-aud in thus
meeting this sum, the state government
has saved the people handsome sum in
the reduction which was granted for the
advance payment.
in the furnishing of men to swell the
armies of the republic, the Keystone state
presents record which no other loyal state
can equal. The quota of the three years
men required both skill and tact to recruit.
While this portion of Pennsylvania force
was being raised, other men were called to
serve less time, yet in the face of this
disparagement OF terms, the entire quota
for three years was raised. Other states
have been called on to raise their quota OF
this three years force. This was not
nI hx-+ +ha 9TH cta onl
the 18th Of August last a draft was order
ed in such states to make up these dehclen
cies This draft has never been enforced
in such states, so that Pennsylvania, to-
day, is the only state that has her three
years regiments up to within figure that
may be regarded as their maxium strength.
Pennsylvania is also the only state that
has almost doubled her three years men,
because the regiments for this period that
first sent to the field We're more than half
destroyed. Let any other state-nay, let
any nation in the world, show ike
force, alacrity, vigor and promptness
Under the call of the 4th of August,
for 100000 men, Pennsylvania presents
similar alacrity and vigor. Her quota of
that force IS complete. Her regiments
forming this quota all fully organized
and either in the field or ready to march
at a days notice. Let il be remembered,
too, that the material comprising these
forces is OF that order from which heroes
are made. Better men never marched at
the word of command or shouldered a mus.
ket In dcfeCce of a holy cause.
All this is what Pennsylvania has done
towards the support Of the federal gov
ernment. While she was engaged in this
work, it must be rcmen, bered that the
state was hourly and daily discharging for
the federal government. In less than FIVE
days, when the Commonwealth was sud
denly threatened with invasion, fifty thou
sands men were put in motion, more than
one-half of that number fully armed and
equipped, and thrown on the border ready
to meet any foe that might show himself
for fight. The late COMMANDMENTS Chief
OF the Army Of the Potomac acknowledged
that service by admitting that the display
of this force was instrumental In intimi-
dating the army under the rebel Lee, ie
not in actunlly frustrating the designs OF
that able general to invade the north.
What has Pennsylvania done How
magnifcently, as we'll as eloquently, does
the record answer this question?