The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1864-07-27
Five Hundred Thousand More I!

The country is again startled with another
al for more men. With every new call
comes the promise that it will be the last,
bat each promise iSmaie but to be broken.
There is no end to the slaughter. Each
s:lcosadiny call brings US no nearer the con-
elest Of the South; but the past which
wight teach US wisdom, is Of but little
noticed TIE figures are magnifcently
grand The number called out previous to
th;a call wa 2403, SIS; this call viii verge
on to throe milionjI If the 100 per cent.
required BY the Con- inscription law be aided
the enormous number OF 3,436, S64 is the
number required as the sacrifice to the foul
tsul, Abolition. No one appears to be
greatly startled. The people have been
driven to that degree of recklessness which
ignores all emotion. We obey not our own
feelings The Que man at Washington
touches the springs and the automatons
porforn They follow the fife and drum
they mach to the battlefield they are
sy.pt dpwn by shot and SHE'LL they are
tamb!el into gtayes or crowded into hospi
tl,l, sli hen five hunlrel thousand more
n7e 5ro4gh. upon the seem, AMI the tragc-
d. goes on.
Grant has lost more men in one campaign
a.yAinst Richmond than was commanded by
both Wellington and Napoleon combined at
the great battle OF Waterloo, yet Mr.. Lin
coln $ craving increases with gorging. The
herd Of bullock" bargained for in the
present call exceeds in number all those
heretofore marked for the shambles. Five
hundred thousand additional victims in the
fourth yoar of th7 war, aud with our val
leys already studded with graves, our hospi-
t,ls already crowded with inyalids, and our
s.reots with limbless men--thc thought de-
Inands that we should be hardened to ca
Amity, or human nature would revolt. -
Five hundred thousand more workingmcn
to b, taken from the loom, the anvil, the
plough, Tho various implements which Gre
ate a nation's strength Five hundred
thousand more to be drained from the chan7
slsis Of industry, where their presence is es-
sontiaI to supply the absolute wants of trade
and to give food to the millions Five hun
tlred thousand more, to be torn from their
psa.aaJ!e homes, from the arms of their
wives an children, who will be left without
protectors to beg, or starve, or search for
daily bread as best they may. Five hun
deed thousand more, whose immolation will
swaI tho list Of orphans AMI widows whose
lamentations already appeal to Heaven and
a.iail the earth with the voices of woe
.sllay heart will shrink with forebodings
AZ The eye glan3as over the cold AMI pitiless
l4aguago Of that proclamation. Many IA
thor ana husband will look anxiously around
at the inluiring faces of his loved ones clus-
taFinz around the frugal board. How long
viii ho be permitted to commune with them
Ia the briot hours of respite from his daily
4oii2 For the Summer, the delights OF
home, For the Autumn the terrors Of battle,
for the Winter, perhaps, the unmarked
gave Meanwhile the sound of revalry al
Washington mingles with the roar of can
non, the shrieks Of the dying and the sob:
of the bereavcd. Why should the jester
mourn with the afflicted, when his PARASITE:
are laughing at bis ribald jokes? Weep on,
mothers and wives and daughters of oul
lani; inlrch on and perish, fathers aud
brothers ami sons count your boards, you
trafi ,kers in blood weave at the looms Of
your ambition, you aspiring dernagogues, the
balance Of justice is in the hands Of God
aui at last it will find its level
The quota Of Harrison county we sup
pyyc viii be between four and five lrr1r,