Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1863-07-21
SATURDAY MORNING. JULY II, 1865.
WANT ~ MEN

stoned BY Immense superiority OF numbers on
the part CT tie enemy. For want of men
Gen. Johnston Sound himself powericss to re-
lieyc N.yk>u.g Foo the same reason Brag.
has had 40 anaud u Middle Tennessee and
ta!! bach; Iu ,hr Tennessee river. For wl,il
OF men We have hrcn unable, here at HoIi-
mon,i. 10 keep the Peninsula clear Of bri'
gands and save tue crops, negroes and houses
Of the citizens. If Lee had had twenty tn u
sand more troops to preserve his communica
tons he could have followed up Mcadc's army
and taken Baltimore and Washington. II
the heroic city of Charleston should fall now,
it will he solely because Bcauregard has not
force enough TO defend its lines Of tortltica-
tionS.
Yet there arc actually fighting men enough
in the c"un'ry 70 drive out the enemy II they
were only organized and armed. There has
been too much slackncsS, the result of over
weenins confidence. in the whole Of our mill
tary operations. Not only repeated sue.
ccsscs have caused us to lisdain the Prov
ess Of our enemies, but the absurd and
constantly and confidently repeated state
ments, that the Yankee army was tired of the
war, was 'dcmoralizcd," was depleted by the
mastering out of service Of troops enlisted for
a limited time, and soforth, have brought the
public mind into most enerratins condition
Of vague expectancy of peace; so that the
immense armies of Yankees, which are al
WAYS in rent Of us at every ONT, are an
ever new SUI prise to us; the continually in
cr.as;nc fury ami perseverance of the war OF
invasion has amazed us, as.i 1t were some
ching unexpected.
We have always, in this Journal. endeavored
20 l,.:n. home to the hearts of our people, the
true PROPORTIONS Of the war now raging, to
dissiparc those decisions about the Yankees
Icing tired uf the war. or unable to recruit
their .arulic<, 10 impress the fact that every
clfnr, Of tic couutry will be not too much for
Oh. ultimate triumph; and that the war must
BE made according TO the phrase of monarch
zeal couutrics) toto corp9re reyai: that Is 10
saw, that the Cunfcleracy must become one
CAN'T and the whole force Of the people be
concentrated in the hand of the military
chief.
Oar people have gradually and reluctantly
lc. g.ru many things in the course Of the war.
Thry nave not Yet fully learned this one great.
fact. But learn it they will and we trust
not Uro la,e. The Confederate newspapers
are even now awakening 10 II. Says the Sd
vanna4 R"rublican -
"Ta.r, ar. ~ many able Bodied men out "t
the army a. there ~ n II. We proclaim tie
"a ,.yrn ,..a,.gul II NAV be {" our >ha!ac--
tn >nainy 90; H,tn = Nc.!UIcai and people. ii
.iriuiu. no; ur -: ..UI Il Ill n"l. unless "c
haze ma.ir up Ur m,'r.>>i" ~ III N""i,;'"n
ch-.m.. W ur.ieyc tnc people. ~ body. axe
real, il the II 'Tcrnurn;. Confederate ana
) q: t. w.!l u.i> tax" III. Proper steps II ar"u:"
tu.u ( acI.,,.! ;.:.G i'rluG th'i ~" tie fc!d.
l MS De- uUIl: without another day delay.
Tue man vino ants '.Ciwe",. the citizen and
the service u: his country. whenever be may
b.. needed, in times like these. he he Governor
or peasant. should be branded Us Il traitor and
dragged Ia Il traitors doom"
Everybody halls with satisfaction the Prc>i-
dents further call Of all the men between
forty and iorly-ivt. Many urge that it should
be extended 10 fifty but the existing laws OF
our Congress DO not authorize such call
and the Presidents power TO enforce it, or to
order anything like levy en- maSseis doubted.
Besides. some are inclined to disparagc force
raised in hurry for in emergency. The TX
aminer' says:
Raw recruits, volunteers who enter the
array in Il tit Of enthusiasm and strive TO get
out of it in fit Of disgust. militia under arms
this week and following the pillow in the rest
of the month, home guards, minute men, le-
vieS en- 5adSse-all that is mob, not Soldlery.-
To get soldiers. men must be enlisted under
the laws ni the country, to remain in the army
till they learn the trade and till their work Is
done"
This is all true surprising that the enemy
will but give US time to teach every man his
trade of Il soldier, and convert our ''mobs"
into regular armies: but nop-for this pre-
sent emcrgency-for tomorrow and next week
what are we to do? Surely it is better to
have unframed soldiers than none at ALL
OF men who have already learned the trade
of arms, there are now i'll our scrvice-after
all loSSes-about - thousands. They are
not enough to make head everywhere all
round, TO the vast hosts of our enemies. Be-
sides the achievements that have ere now
been done Ivy citizens defending their own
soil. are not to be despised: and even in the
rrc-cnt war, the examples Of the good folk
Of Knoxville and of Rome, ought to encour-
age us to expect stalwart service from theSo
same "yoluntccrs who enter the army in q
fit Of enthusiasm Admitting all that can
be said IN cpnrcmptuous diSpraise of extern
porizcd soliicry. still every man who de-
serves that name will desire and crave to
have hand in tn" fight rather than see his
codni.y subducd and dishonored. Regular
soldiers, however dcscrvedly proud of their
training aud discipline, have no right to re-
fuse such men place in the field, and
chance to STAY an enemy or to win an homo
rablc death.
But, besides those who may now be called
into the field by CONSUMPTION. and who have as
yet nothing to make them formidable save
their determination to perish rather than to
Weld: there are mut;;udcs "f our soldiers al
ready Injured to service. who are new absent
from duty, Oh thousani false prctences.-
The "Examiner' we'll says:
The chief evil Of these times is the escape
of ,unumcrahle individuals from the service
under false prcicnces and by the criminal in
diligence Of those who are appointed to enforce
the law.
But the Government would do a w.s'r aa':
q better thing. if ii would take proper steps to
remedy the defects in its machinery of con-
scripton which diminish its proper effect. If