Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1862-08-28
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NEW RECRUITS-THE 1f|8
Mr.. HARpER:-Wken the 4; Is; Is
present experiment Of hirin5 ~ 4
defend the liberties Of theif <t4< ;r'
has subsidized, audience may be OBJ ii
for plea in behalf of she equity 40.
policy of conseription laws, 70 Hkiel
the great Napoleon insisted on snbje
eating the French nation. This tnin
born statesman and soldier was sri,:h'
when he declared in bis Couurn d
State, "I am inexorable on this sah "a
Of exemptions. How could I reeoas Iz'
20 my conscience % expose ne. q
io6s man FOR the advantage Of another!
Conscription is the everlasting root oil
nation, its moral puri6eaIion, the
resl'foundation Of its habits. By means
Of CONSUMPTION. the nation was classed
according to its real interests for defence
abroad and tranquility at home"
When we have ceased to buy men to
fight, and have avoided the error which
marked the decline Of the Roman En-
pire, who purchased from the barbara
ans exemption from the duty of defsnd-
ing themselves, we will be ready for
the logical proof Of the proposition.
that military eonseription is he ever
lasting root of the nation. Not nation
Of pismires, but a nation Of heroes.
virtuous enough to be proud. and
proud enough to be Yirtuous; nation
of democrats that would welcome ex-
tinction sooner than live in the denial
of its principles, and would rather
perish by the sword than live under the
yoke of fighting nation; of a nation
Of manhood that dares battle for its
own and die for the right-a fighting
nation.
Half a century Of material develop
ment has been given to it by God
This measure was in excess of His u.s.
ual discipline of growing States. A
sectional rebellion now thunders at our
gates. The eternal necessities of the
two most powerful nations in Europe
will require us to be strong enough and
fierce enough to dictate the terms upon
which we will raise cotton for the world.
Sixty years of money making have
been vouchsafed to US. War is the
process by which God weeds in His
garden Of civilization. IT'S His me-
thod Of enthroning herOism above pro-
perty and placing virtue above success.
With blood and fire He baptises pro-
gressiYe races, in the new births which
luxury periodically makes necessary
We ihIisy have armiesiCIarge,armles,
standing armies, and the sooner we
reconcile ourselves to this idea, and
turn our thoughts to public and private
economy which are underlying condi-
tions OF successful war, and 60 at the
vast work of srming this nation and
making it the vicegerent Of Democracy
on this earth, the better it will be for
US.
Indeed we have little time to wait
for conscription IN the free States. It
is timely to say that the use of new re-
cruits for any other purpose than to fll
up and enlarge old regiments, is the
greatest folly that has been suggested.
Though the rebels threaten to march on
Washington and to invade Maryland
and Pennsylvania, and visibly rake and
scrape under their conscripIion law,
armies of recruits to enable them to
execute their threats, the Administra-
ton is proceeding with the slow process
Of raising new regiments out Of raw ma
terial in which the officers are as green
and useless as the men. and which can
not possibly be so disciplined as to stand
| fire for six months to come. This re-
bellion must be stifled with our own
hands, and that speedily. The new re.
cruits are recruited for the cause. and
as soon as sworn in should be sent for
ward to the seat Of war. and instantly
interleaved into the old regiments
There the conscript, touching in the
ranks the shoulders and elbows Of veter-
ans, will absorb discipline, and magnet
ically drawing in the camp and on the
march part Of the life Of men who fol
fifteen months have faced and fought
the enemy, and have become soldiers
by habit, will within six weeks be as
trustworthy on the battle field as II be
had been in the army for six years.
The new recruits are recruited for the
cause, and no official person North o.
the boundary Of the rebellion. should
paw the least attention TO the bswliDe
of any man with shoulder straps upor
his shoulder, "These are my men. re-
cruited for my regiment, which / wal
expressly authorized to raise by Gov
Didler and by Secretary Fidler."
don't care what engagements they hay'
Iill- advisedly made with gentlemen am
bilious to be Colonels, and purpesing Z
get hatched by and by in the depart
ment ovens into full feathered Brig4
diers. These contracts, void as sgains
public policy, should be broken every
where, and the companies and regiment
that have been raised unincumbere'
with green officers, should be prompt.
sent to the army, and made p ons
available. It is time this war "A
treated with blood-earnest sense.
new regiments composed Of raw 70
cruits are 10 be sent to the Potomac o
: the valley Of Virginia as reinforce
ments, while the ranks Of the veteral
regiments are untitled. the commandlnI
Generals will but show themselves D
,, for their place by saying to the officers
! s.~o hor,a and await orders, you ar