The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1862-09-06
SPEECH OF JUDGE EWING.
DELIVERED IN EMpoR1A, AUG. %, 1862.

! ne United States Government has called
for three hundred thousand volunteers fol-
three years or during the war, and tor three
hundred thousand drafted militia for nine
months. The quota of Kansas, under this
call, amounts to about three regiments
The President of the United States has
given authority to Gen. Lane to recruit the
quota of troops to be raised in. Kansas, and
Gen. Lane has intrusted me with the duty
of raising one regiment in this district.
| There is already number of cavalry in
the service largely in excess of the infantry,
and more than is needed; so that the troops
| the Government desires are infantry. And
the Government desires infantry not only
to restore the proportion of the branches,
but because it is also the most effective arm
| of the service. I find some few young men
who will not go as infantry; they will go as
cavalry, or will stay at home. Now that
is not patriotic. The Government calls for
infantry, but for no cavalry; and he who
would show his patriotism must respond to
the call of the Governments. They must not
dictate to it where they shall go, or how
they shall go-for that is no offer of SER
vice. No one now responds to the can be-
cause he would prefer to live in the army.
The early call took all who could go as well
as not, and more. Those who 90 now must
leave families, or business, or both They
make sacrifice in going, and they should
not dictate terms to destroy the value of
that sacrifice. They should rather say to
their country, "'Do with me as you will. "
There is too much cavalry now. No new
cavalry regiments will be raised. If here
after they are wanted, Government will
mount the Infantry. And that is fair.
Those who are willing to go into any de-
partment, ought to have the choice. Both
Blunt and Lane have given assurances that
cavalry will be thus raised, if ever there is
need of raising more in Kansas.
The Presidents call for 10000 new SOL
diers has struck the North with astonish-
ment-not the call itself, but the necessity
for it. The war has not been as successful,
nor its results as satisfactory, as has been
expected. The Northern people did not at
first realize the magnitude of the contest.
Before the close of Buchanan's administra-
ton, the South had been preparing. For four
or five years, Northern arsenals had been
robbed, arms and cannon had been stolen,
Northern factories bad been busy making
arms for the South-the loyal States not
dreaming that such fearful contest was
impending.
When South Carolina seeded she be-
finely equipped army for months beseiged
and finally reduced Fort Sumter. But the
North went on in the paths of peace while
every Southern furnace was glowing, and
every anvil ringing with preparations for
war.
At first it was thought that rs, 900 troops
could sweep over the South and drive the
hosts of rebellion into the Gulf in three
months. But wherever they marched they
found larger and better armies. Two or
three victories i'll Western Virginia, and two
or three defeats along the line of the Poto-
mac, are all the record that the first army
of the Union has left upon the page of his
tory. 1t did not make dent in the mailed
armor of the Rebellion. Then the North
put half a million of troops into the field,
thinking that force sufficient to defeat the
recover their States to the Union. And
again were they mistaken. They under
valued the resources of powerful people.
They failed to appreciate that they had to
run over and occupy territory larger than
France, Spain, Italy, Austria, Prussia,
and Great Britain and Ireland combined.
The work was too vast. The Southern peo-
pie were too numeroGs-too rich in resour
ces, and ruled by government too strong
and despotic-a government that had FIVE
millions of freemen and five millions of la
bOrers. Never were ten millions more pow
erful; half white, half black-half gentle
men, half slayes-half to fight, and half to
labor.
Although our army has done much, yet
it has generally met larger forces than our
own wherever it has marched. And these
forces have had the advantage of operating
on their own ground. Our troops have
been forced to march over country in
which they were strangers. A large part of
our want of success is due not only TO our
lack of numbers, but to lack of stern
purpose. Never before have generals led
armies into hostile regions and constantly
excluded from their camps all who would
be friends. One third of the North trained
to love, and another third to palliate slavery,
have been unwilling to destroy it. But adj
.versity has taught the conservatives what
war demands. The loss of kindred by
hundreds of thousands in the field and in
the hospital, has neryed them at last to re-
ceive their friends-to welcome loyal blacks
if We cannot meet loyal whites. The poll
cy We have heretofore followed was never
before pursued by any nation at war
What general but welcomed all friends If