Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1863-08-05
From the Petersburg Express.
How to Enlarge our Army.

Amid the gloom OF the present moment,
people become irritable in temper and abu.
sive in language, and as in danger and dis
tress, everything but self is forgotten, and
the better principles Of human nature are
invisible and become subject to their un-
controlled whirlpool of passion. This is
too apparent at the present time, and while
one portion Of the people through the press
abuses President Davis, another portion Sc
lects the unfortunate generals of our armies.
No one has the omniscience and omnipo-
tence of Divinity, aud therefore they should
think soberly about all things, and looking
more hopefully of the future. After a
thing has happened, everybody knows what
ought not to have been done-for instance
the battles at Malvern Hill, the 3rd days
battle at Murfreesboro, and the last days
battle at Gettysburg, ought not to have ia
ken place. It is worse than useless to cen.
sure the unfortunate. Under the circum-
stances our officers have done what they
thought best for their. country, and their
hands should be strengthened for the fu.
ture contests with the enemy. IF all the
newspapers were to call upon the people to
realize the crisis of the country, and in the
event of the Yankees subjugating the South,
every man would lose his property, and for
generations to come would be hewers Of
wood for their conquerors; white slaves
toiling hopelessly for their daily bread at
the commands of Yankee task.masters.-
And if the whoze people don'tsee their con-
dition in time to prevent it, they will soon
learn from experience the miseries of a
subjugated people.
Now with all due, Difference to the wisdom
of our legislative and executive government,
it may be safely asserted, experience has
proved that the principles of substitution
and large exemptions, have been injurious
to the success of the Confederacy. Instead
of large portions of the country being over
run by the enemy by the want of soldiers,
it would have been avoided by calling all
men Except those engaged in manufactu.
ring army implemeuts) into the field
And to rectify the mistakes of the past,
Congress ought to be called together and
pass laws to increase the army from men
who have furnished substitutes, from doc
tors, honorable bodied government officials,
from overseers, and the whole people from
16 to 55, put on war footing.
In regard to substitutes, men who have
furnished those now subject to military
duty, and who have deserted, should be
called out, and their money returned to
them by the government. 1t is not a very
hard thing for men who obtained substitutes
under $1,000 and been exempted from the
service to be defending their property, As
the law now stands it is worse than the
Federal law. No poor man now can fur.
niSh substitute, the money required is too
much for him, and he is compelled to- fight
the battles of men having all the negroes
and landed property. This is particularly
hard for poor men now being called out -
The adage of poor men for children comes
homes to themselves in deeper feeling than
it did before.
There are probably $4,000 rich men who
have gotten substitutes who ought to be
fighting for themselves and their property.
There are from 6, to 5000 doctors who
might be spared. There are $4,000 gov.
ernnout clerks, whose places could be easi.
ly supplied by females and wounded sold
iers and by old men. There are thousands
of men selling whiskey and running their
unfortunate patrons-thousands occupying
stores, whose places could be supplied by
females or invalid soldiers, or old men,
hundreds of printers, printing novels and
too many ncwspapers-(by the way, what
is the necessity for five daily papers in
Richmond p
Every branch of business eau spare
portion of its population, and it ought to
be done, and done now or never. Wien
Lincoln drafts Lis 100000 men, aud buys
300, 900 others of the hardened miscreants
of the old world, the end will be too near
to be prevented, and thousands, now cou-
tent to count their gains apd smile in safe
security, would be willing to give their
last cent, if the opportunity were again Of
fered them.
In conclusion, Congress ought to be call
ed together without delay, and emitting
their usual buncomb speeches, act for their
unfortunate country promptly and wisely,
now or never. And if such vast country
like the Confederacy, should be overrun by
the Yankee race, the people deserve all the
degradation and barbarities held in reserve
for them by their diabolcal enemies of the
North.