Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-10-27
West VIrglnIa's Quota Under the
Last Call.

West EAERNnA2so 4uoE1 OhoGE tue
Last Call.
The Government has called for 300 900
more men. Some portion of them will
of course, be required from West Virginia.
Had we no credit at the War Department
for an. excess, it would be, in a call for
800, 900, something over 4 900 men. But
we have a credit for an excess of 1900
three years men, although We are def
cisnt under the nine months call. Take.
the average of the two accounts. and we
still have a small balance to our credit;
not enough, however, it is supposed, to
cover what will be required of the State
under the last call. It is more than likely
we will have to furnish about 1000 men /;
perhaps twenty-five hundred or three
Thousand. We may safely calculate on
one or the other of these numbers. This
being so, it is time for US to be getting
the matter started. The FIRST thing
TO do is to avoid q draft. We have
had no such thing among us yet,
and we need not have, and we hope for
the sake of our good credit with the nation
at large, and more than all for the sake of
the cause, tnaIia uraEt-wuI not 10 .lssese---
~. We believe that the call now issued
will in all human probability be the last
one. Three hundred Thousand more men
added to those already in the field will COM
ple.e the work. Even now they are called
out more in the nature of reserved force
than with any expectation objective service
An effort is going to be made in every State
to raise the respective quotas by volunteer,
ing, or in other words by offering bouu-
ties and stimulating voluntary enlistments
Volunteering is the true way to raise sol,
dlers in republic. The armies of fret
government fighting, in a just cause, can
always be replenished provided there il
virtue aud patriotism enough among tn,
people. The curse of the. times is tina
every body is,thinking ofmost anything
else except the. end of the war. The insa
table greed Of the millions for ''green.
backs" is the bane of the war. The thin
has got to be done different before the en-,
comes. More time and more money, NOR,
active charity, have got to be given to tn
cause of the soldiers. Those who stay a
home and make money have got to pa.
more oft ont for the bene6tof those whS
fight than they have been doing. This fac
is becoming more and more apparent sver!
day.
All this is preliminary to saying tina
our quota of soldiers under the last cal
can be raised by voluntary enIistments i
the matter is entered into with the righ
spirit. Our plan is briefly this; Let tn,
Legislature, when the quota is ascertaiued
make an appropriation for bounty money
to each man enlisting. The United Statel
Government now pays S4O2 to each mar
already in the three years service unde
the first call, who re-enlists. And it pay
$500 for new recruits. The reason, VIII
the bounties ought to be paid by the Stat,
is this: In so doing the burden is equally
distributed among all, those loyal ant
those disloyal, those liberal and patriotic
and those sordid aud unpAtriotic; aud
further, it is distributed to those counties
where few or no volunteers have beer
raised and where there are many peopl,
able TO pay. Under the last three year
call mapyot the counties in West Virginia
this one for instance, paid large bountiei
and furnished a large number Of men :
, Twenty thousand dollars were levied in THU
county, to say nothing Ofssoms large ,pri,
5yate bounties: Some counties. made nc
{ levy and paid no bounties. Aud this il
why that going at the thing byseonnties
works pueauRlly. The right way is to
make State concern out Of the matter.
and impose the burdens equally. 1t is the
most available, the cheapest and the most
: equitable Way.,s a.9ss IS 80 ~ >
81 THE following sentences became familiar
to the people of Ohio during the past cam
paigni but it has now anew sound: