New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-04-05
READY 4.

We have published nothing with more hearty
satisfaction than the statement embodied IN the
telegrsphic dispatches from Washington in ocr
last that the President has suspended all en-
listing or recruiting, whether Of Regulars or
Volunteers. until further orders from the War
Department. No more regiments az" TO b.
raised. no men enlisted 70 fill up The raubs oi
those already enlisting, until tLo suficiepcy O.
our armies already in the field or preparing to
take it shall have been fully tested II hey
prove inadequate to tho work In hand IL VII
be easy TO call out One Hundred Thousand more
al short notice; but let us first sec what can
be done with the Half Million Or over Of good
and true men already confronting the rebe.
leyies or anxiously awaiting orders 20 break up
their camps Of instruction and e wler. bat.
ties sre 10 be fought AID victories won.
Up to this hour, not less than Seven Hundred
thousand men have volunteered 20 tight ior tie
Union. In no case has recruiting been aided
by any kind Of pressure or cOnstraint, even from
public opinion. Those who chose 20 60 have
volunteered, az legiOns beside would have done
did they not believe they could serye their
country more efficiently elsewhere than in the
tented field. Some have died in the service,
many more been disabled; while many thousanda
served for limited term and We're houorcbly
discharged, leaving more than Five Hundred
Thousand gallant men uphclding the integrity
Of the Nation and the honor Of It's Flag to-day.
/ This vast army is not perfect in all the details
Of military service, but we are confident thai
it's rank and file are surpassed in yalor ana
efficiency By the armies OF no other nation on
the globe.
The Rebel. have come Two Hundred Thou
sand regularly enlisted soldiers. 1ith perhaps
Fifty thousand irregulars-haf guerilla, half
robber-and they are now swelling their num-
bers by dragging into the field every white
person who wears pantsloons and can carry n
muskct. Whether these now reluctant levie.
will prove worth the cost of arming and feed
ING them remains to be aen. But their weak
point is the notorious disa0eciion Of q grea'
portion Of their men, regularly enlisted Tor The
war. At least Fifty thousand Of Their enlisted
men are of Northern or Of foreign birth, wh.
we're practically made 10 choose between bc'ni
starved Tor want of employment, hunted dow
as Abolitorists or enter the service OF JEFF
Davis N Co. Thousands OF native Nirginaul
and Tennesseeans are IN The Rebel army, no.
because they really Wisb DisunOn, or believe
there is Just cause for Secession, but bccause ,
re.gn of terror had been inauglrated which ,ef
them 10 alternative. If the War should ems
tomorrow b. the surrender at discretion Of The
Conlcderafes. one-third Of their spiders would
receive the tidings with heartfelt and many @
them with open e1ultaJion.
The great fact that the Don.Mitary Norti
has filled IL. ranks amply without a singh
draft and without the least constraint Of an
kind, while the martial and illIbusterin.
South has only raised a smaller iorce by sweep
ing conscriptons, BY police justices giving then
offenders the alternative Of enlistment or in
prisonment and by the potent machinery @
feminine eXecfatiOn directed against the lsG
gard brayes-rot that the Southrons are lei
brave, less devoted, than the citizens Of IL,
Free Statcs-but that the Judgment, the COZ
science, the intel lgence Of tie South coHdem'
this parricidal rebellion. Hence our assurance
that the Unon cause must triumph, and tha
The struggle cannot be much further protractcd
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