Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-08-05
THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND
MORE I
No nore waiting f0r volunteers to en- u,

NohOFe waiting for volunteers to ill up
The arAyi Tars, haadrsd tlousand nor,
men .ars 10 Be innsdiat,ly drafted fss nine
months, and il BY, the 18th of August, the
three hundred thousand called for under
the list 'cAn have not volunteered, they,
also, are e Be drafted. Siz huadrsl ihoas-
aad MAJ are 10 81 raissa at once, and the
rebellion is to be SFussd BY O7er-pOwering
fOrOt 81 numbers, This Is riigaL It would
have been a glorious thing to put down
this rebellion by volunteer yalOr and
strength, bat the country cannot wait
months for the volunteers to come slowly
in. s,........
Wsmust 1t once sllup theqpOta Of vol
untesrs, and then prepare to meet the draft
braYely and h0nOrably Those who are
wOrthy,win be promoted, and the incOm-
petspis- WA be woeded out Of the army
Thiswfiigensure honor 10 those who de-
serve it, The time for trial of our patri-
Otism has come; let US meet it like men.
Whatrho Women Can aud should Do.
Not less than in Revolutionary times
have TIC women Of loyal America work
to DO IA, this present war. We do not speak
now Of the aid they have furnished and
viii continue to furnish through Soldiers
Aid Societies, which have caused blessings
to be bestowed upon them by every sick or
wounded soldier who has felt their kind
ness in the hospitals. That work has been
vast and noble, and for it the loyal women
Of kmerica viii be honored through all time
to come. But the work that we now speak
of is that Of Tscridhag. If their efforts are
rightly directed, they can do more than
any bounty Inducements in putting the
array Of three hundred thousand into the
field. In this work the women Of the South
set good example to those of the North
There they drive the men into the army
not with the traditional brOOmstick, but
with The not less tangible weapons, the
tongue and the eye. They look with nc
fayUrppOu the craven who refuses to join
the army, but by word and act show that
they consider him reoreant to his duty
nis not only the furious termagauts who
assail our soldiers with torrents Of abuse
from southern doOr-ways, who are earnest
in -tks rebel cause, but those Of education
and refinement, while less demonstrative
are no less determined that the traitors
Gauss shall prosper. And by the thousand
acts Of which they are the mistresses, they
shame an who would otherwise hold back
to enter the ranks. And here is great
work that deyOlves upon the women of the
North. To urge and persuade the young
zaoz-zha can 20 As well .as to stay at home
ing her lover into the army, or maxim,
sure that he had sent substitute, the req
iments would soon be filed. There ar,
many young men whose duty to families
dependent upon them, or to business tha
eannot be left or whose want Of physical
ability fully excuses them from service
but i every able-bOdied young man who
has no such excuse were sure that he
would find no favor in the eyes Of his fe-
male aequaintanees until he had put one
man h'into the army, snlistments would GO
forward with all desirable rapidity.
This is the work that devOlyes upon the
women Of the country. VIII they accept
it in behalf not only Of their country, but
Of the honor Of knowing in after years that
those who have come back from the war to
claim their hands have had a part in the
saving Of that country?