New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-12-21
TuR NATIONS OALLn

TIC. lnCB WHO MtCtt w w oso tA'NNN Va S'I
pointed by this call ONLY betray their chagHn at
the now manifest future Of their reiterated ana
confident predictions that the Rebellion mover
! would, never c0nid DO put down. Never DE-
fore. in twice The tine, was such progress made
IN the work as during hc six weeks that have
elapsed since Mr.. I4incoln's reehction. During
that brief period Georgia has been tpvereed
from Atlanta to Savannah by Gen. Sherman,
with hardly q show of resistance, and tho Robe'
Army of the West, repulsed and tesrinlly
decimated at Franklin, ha, been assailed
in ;ts htrcuchments before Nashville,
driven thererro3n with vast loss, again attacked
and again beaten tho next day, and sent Tying
headlOng toward tho Tennessee River, routed,
reckless mob. having lost ffty-louT out of sixty
FIVE guns, thousands Of muSSots, hundreds OF
wagons three Major. Generals and at least hal
dozen Brigediers with not less than Fifteen
Thousand OF the Forty Thousand Men who
filled It's ranks when it advanced in its pride
from Alabama threatening to capture Nashville
with al its irnmeuso stores, and chase the rem
nant Of IL routed defenders out OF tennessee
and across Kentucky to tho Ohio. II Is plum
that what IS lcn Of Hccd's army cannot regain
Alabama or Georgia n hoG the available
strength it carried thence low weeks ago.
| Then why call Coz more men' Because,
!. The late call for Half Million produced
but Two Hundred Thousand Credits demand
ed by this or that looai.ty-most Of oil by our
own City-cut i down nearly hall. while large
numbers drafted have s.srlked 10 Canada or
nearer hiding.places, leaving our armies no
stronger to-day than they were three months
ago, as tens Of thousands have meantime been
discharged on the expiration OF their term Of scrv
ice or by reason Of disability; while some have
deserted, more ore disabled and many have
| given their lives to their country. Actually,
there are no, so many men In the Onion armies
to-day as there were when the President issued
his last call for Half Million.
| II. We want TO geo the last veotiees Of tho
Rebellion speedily es well as sarely crushed out.
The country haa already been too long afflicted
and devastated by II. II Is mercy, it is human
| itv, it is p0ipabe economy, so 10 FL tho ranks
Of our wasted armies that the staggering blows
jus. dealt TO Secession shell De swiftly followed
up and repeated until the breath ia fairly beaten
ont Of it, body. Had tho last call been truly
filed, no further call would ever have been
necessary. Let this be 80 filed that the Rcbel-
lion shall not Catlao. tho vcrnal season OF le65.
III. 1t has born the habit of tho Opposition Jour
mails to add up The various calls and present the
aggregate a. The number who have actually
swelied the Union ranas. when il Is notorious
ths, nothing lac that Number WAC over oh.
tanned, even Cor few months. Many OF those
who have really served are counted thrice in
this way: frs, as threc-inonths' men; then o.
nine.nonths' men; q third time az newly en-
listed under one of -ie late calls. Probably
half the number called would equal tho whole
number who have actually seen service.
". We I.ote cayi!s ut The call which assume
tha, Volunteering is preferable 70 Drafting. The
criticism il purely inc,ious. Zach State, each
County, each township, IS at perfect liberty and
i. accorded Ill reasonable time Ia ill rs quota
! by yolunteerins M one wishes or cOntem-
.
| il only in case volunteers are not forthcoming
/ thai dra,rinc is 10 take place The President
and all aboU' him will rejoice to learn that
drafting IL nowhere necessary. II Is only in
case %: failure 70 realize the requisite men by
volunteering that i:jar Is 10 be made.
| Y. We t.il cherish ardent hopes that few or
none Of The men now called viii ever be wanted
at the ilont-that the Rebcl!ion will collapse
before they can be seni forward. Could the
aholc Three Hundred Thousand he raised in
January. we confidently believe that the War
inc viii 70 contribute % that blessed consuui-
NATION as a PROMPT end hearty response 10 the
new call.
VI. Cur soldiers in the field sre proYiug them
selves he,ecs. The sGafon subjects them to Sc
we're privaticns, but they do not ialter nor quail.
They deserve ~ well AZ need evidences of our
Sympathy aud admiration. And nothing will
50 encourage AID stiInulate them to surpass cven
their own achievements az tdngs that their
coInatriots at home continue 10 "rsly round !
tbs flag and viii Soos he filing up their
thilned ranks with new lcvics. Assure them Of
this, and they will 20 on conquering and to con-
Quer until the Rebellion Is NJ more.
We bopc 20 be able TO chronicle. before the
end Of January, that at least two-thirds OF the
naluber required by This call have already been
enlisted, and that the residue soon will be. In