American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1862-07-18
HARD TO GET THE aoo.ooo

As we stated few days ago, it will
De with great labor, promises and all the
other machinery of craft, that the Lin
coin Government will be able to collect
Its $780, 900 recruits. We are certain
that they cannot be got by any process
except drafting.
The following extracts from the latest
New York and Philadelphia papers
those OF the 9th inst. ARE, in this re-
spect. worthy of republication. The
World of that date says:
What means this indecision at Wash.
ington Why are the people kept in
this suspense Is there to be a change
or not? The call for more troops has
not yet kindled the first flash of enthusi.
asm. Distrust weighs like a pail. A
sulen gloom IS settling upon every heart
The tirmest loyalty is staggered. The
clearest minds are bewildered in IRVING
to account for the Presidents inaction,
Why stands he passive in This turning
hour of the nations destiny =? How is il
that be can fail TO heed a necessity which
is as notorious as the sun above him.
Why do not our enterprising recruit
ing officers call into play some of the
agencies employed in other countries to
stimulate enlistments Let the eve and
ear be appealed TO. The air should be
resonant with trumpets, and drums, and
martial music, and every day or two our
streets should be gay with professions
and small armies with banners. The
pomp and circumstance Of glorious war,
if properly presented to the Imagination
our young men, will be quite as effectua
as large increase Of bounty money
though that should not be and is not neg.
lected. AT all events, let this plan be
tried. The pocket nerve is not the only
one that goes to the heart of Young
America.
What can the authorities mean by
thrusting the sick and wounded of the
army before the eyes of the whole com
munity Instead of providing five Oh
six great hospitals In healthy inland To-
calitles for the manned and enfeebled, il
has scattered them all over the country
to sadden aud depress the SPIRITS Of the
people. Surely this is not the way to
inspire our young men with enthusiasm.
or induce them to enter the ranks of the
army. With conspicuous inlelicity the
park has been selected in this city as the
depot for the wounded, and there, day
after day, in the presence Of tens of thou
sands. may be seem Hundreds of poor
fellows, every one of whom is melan-
choIy remainder Of The horrors Of war,
and a powerful dissuader to those who
may desire to enlist. Let proper ar
rangements be made forthwith to remove
every sick and wounded soldier away
from the large centres OF population.
These extracts are from different ar
ticles.
The Philadelphia Press, of the 9th
inst, says:
The matter of recruiting for the new
army levy is beginning TO engross a
share of public attention, but not to the
extent which its Importance merits, or
which true hearted patriots could desire.
There seems to be Withholding of sup
port on the part of the public press
There is not that unity Of effort among
newspapers throughout the North which
yielded such gratifying fruits q year
ago This is unwise, unpatriotic and
wrong. 1t tends to produce the bane.
full impression that the journals which
heretofore had lent their whole influence
to the Union cause have grown apatnetic
and selfish because of the governmental
restriction upon the publication of wal
news.
Some other extracts are significant o
the grave feeling with which recent events
are viewed Thus the n. \. Post. Of the
9th inst, says:
All the signs show that we stand a
the grave and serious crisis of our his
tory The recent intimatons from
Europe look to speedy Intervention in oul
affairs and if the foreign powers hest
tate, it is not improbable that the new:
which the next steamer will take to Eng
iouJ fban, conclusion