New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-07-04
OUR COUNTRY,s CALL.

OUR COUNTBY's CALL.
The President of the United States, acting
in concert with tho Governors Of all tho
loyal States, has called upon the country
for Three Hundred thousand more Volunteers,
mainly Infantry, to meet and defeat the Rebel
esions now outnumbering and pressing upon
tho wasted Union armies already in the field.
We sntrsat every patriot to ponder well this
appeal to his loyalty, and judge " to tue
response which it becomes him 70 make.
There arc some who say We thought the
Government had men enough, and had stopped
enlistments on that account. 1t had men
enough three months ago. as things then were,
to hive broken by this time the back Of the
Rebellion. But the traitor chiefs. realizing
their extremity, took the last desperate step
that usurpation aad tyranny could devise.
They ordered . levy en- masS OF all the
Whites and Mulattoes in the South between
Il aud 50 years Of age, and sent their myr.
midons into every county and neshborhoOd TO
enforce this decree. BY brute force aud terror,
they have filled their ranks with Three Hun.
bred Thousand Conscripts, large proportion
of them true and hearty Unonists but lacking
power to resist this edict. They are dragged
into tho ranks of Treason and made to fight.
kill and die in its cause, through simple terror
of the swords and musketa that CLEAN threat
eningly around them. The Government has
found it necessary 10 call Three Hundred
thousand Patriots into the field to meet this
new army Of conscript Rebels and victims.
This 10 probably the very last cali that will be
made on tho loyalty Of the Nation, as the
Rebels have now done their worst and must
hencsforth grow weaker and weaker.
When this Rebellion first broke out, il had
not more than One Hundred Thousand abettOrs,
mainly made up of the old Calhoun "Chiyalry,"
and the negro-traders Of the South. The
gamblers and criminals of the Southern cities,
smelling a prospect OF riot and plumber rushed
eagerly into the ranks Of the conspirators, in
order TO achieve power and impunity. Those
Of the sayehOdins caste aud its abettors who
had not before listened fayOraby to the Calhoun
sophsts. were gradually drawn into tho plot,
through fear Of being left behind by ths popular
wave, and ,tgmetzed as Lincolnites" and
Abolitonists. Thus class after class was drawn
into the vortex, BY ambition, BY hopes Of
rapine, BY terror, and finally BY wholesale
lying, until ten States and fragments of four
others are now in the clutches Of tho head.
TRAITORS, And are doing their utmost to divide
and destroy the country.
Patriots Unicnists! loyers Of Freedom, this
mu.t not be! lou must heroicaily prevent it !
Resolve now that tho needed force shall be
raised promptly and fully-yOu that are of
proper age and full vgor must volunteer, while
the in6rm or superannuatsd must freely con.
tribute Of their substance TO sustain the fami.
lies of those who peril their lives for tho coun.
try, Resolve to do il of once
Hours are precious. Some great disaster
may bsfaIl while We are getting ready to avert
il. You who can possibly b spared and are
able TO fight. Lot not day bo lost in offering
your services to your distracted. impsrled
country.
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