The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1864-07-07

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the farmers pay double prices for all woollen
goods the coming season, and it would be
unjust, if they are enyeigled into selling
their wool at less than it is fairly worth,
tfN -s-ae--
Military Resources Are they Exhausted.
Some statements were made in the Senate
a few days since, by Mr.. Wilson, Chairman
of the Committee on Military Affairs which
will doubtless interest the country to know. |
In conversation with Mr.. CONFESS of Cal
fornia who charged that the efforts of the
Government had been 'spasmodie, he re-
piled:
''Mr WILSON. Does the Senator Mr.. Con-
ness know that we have raised or re-enlst-
ed since the 18th day of October last six
hundred thousand men, not to count black |
men, and that within the last year we have |
put in the field seven thousand men; that |
we have made an exertion, such as few ma
tons ever made, and few nations can make
that we have spent $135, 100000 in boun-
ties that wehave drafted, that we have
used the whole power and influence of the
Government to increase our military forces ?
Sir, we have put forth an effort that excites
the establishment, and commands the admi-
ration Of the world. e
''Sir, that Senator should remember that
some of us live in communities where the
calls are over and over again where sons,
brothers, relatives, friends, neighbors, all
have been summoned to field of duty and
have responded to these calls While we,
their representatives, are ready to vote men
and to vote money we want to make these
sacrifices of men and of blood bear as lightly
as possible on our people. Humanity and
lust ice alike demand it. Gen. Grant is in
front of Richmond This rebellion is cooled,
to use the language of Gen. Hooker, at
Richmond, and within ten miles of that cap
tai of treason. We have sent forty-eight
thousand men to reinforce Gen. Grant since
the commencement of the march on the reb-
!. Ell capital. Within thirty days we have
gathered up over the country these reinforce
ments, two thousand of whom are the one
hundred days men raised in the State of
; Ohio ..-
We can thus see two things one, that onr
exertions for filling up the army have not
been interlnitted nor ineffective, but have
been continued, and with success. The
! other is, that the inability of the Govern
ment to get soldiers by volunteering does
> not appear in this record. 1t was announ-
ced over year ago that volunteering was
''played out" but this army Of roo, 000was
= nearly all got by volunteering. 1t is true
that enormous bounties were used to induce
enistments but it is not certain that so
: large bounties were any necessity i'll the case
= nor that as many soldiers might not have
been had for half the money. Pecuniary
inducements are not the strongest which
operate upon the minds of many men at
least to induce them to join the army; II
, they were, we should not see young mer
> leave salaries of $500 year to receive twelve
IS dollars per month in the military and naval
- service The rebel soldiers get no pay at
> all worth the name,yet they fight and marcl
:, as we'll as our own.
Volunteering may, or may not, be the hes
, form of raising soldiers; but it has brough
|, them SO far, and with as much success il
! the late months of the war as in the earle
- ones.
;, But the National LptegJigencer, in whicI
- we find Mr.. Wilson's statements makes al
y unauthorized and mischevous use Of them
! Its conclusion is that the country is exhaus
=, ted of its military force. Its statements il
u, that our enlistments have taken one in thir
ty-three from the active pursuits of industr,
"a rate higher than that which. obtaine
i under the conscriptions of the French arm,
: during the period of Napoleon's wars ant
that Allison attributes the overthrow Of Ma
= poleon to the violation ofphysical laws up
! on which the safety of the nation depends
- The IeteLijgencer seems DESTROYS Of ma
= king out case which shall tell against til
~ loyal cause somewhere, and is neither for
~ getfuI of some facts belonging to it, or doe
n not care to exhibit them.
!" In its reckonings of the troops called on
=, since the war begun, it counts altogether, a
=. if all enlisted were different men. For in
- stance we have the first call for Is, 600 the
- the next eff 600, 900, Of 1862. Then, il
~ July. 1862, we have call for 100000
= then 300, 900 militia for nine months: the1
. of 10000 more to drive back Gen. Lee
= Then we have adraft of 800, 1000, 900 Gan
2 which yielded, if we rightly remember abou
! 10000. And now since October last, w
- have as Senator Wilson says, 700, 600 more
,s Now the EatelJigencer'S inference is tina
all these troops are different men, while W
all know that the same man may count tw
! or threee times in the different calls. TIT
y three months, nine months men, and the,
!. are either returned to the pursuits of indus
try or have enlisted again. Ofthis 1000
a considerable proportion are re-enlistment
of veterans in the field.
If we allow that the proportion of men il
the military service is as large as claimed
. the differences of the IateILjgencer do no
J necessarily follow. The cases of this coun
: try and Of France in Napoleon's day are no
= by any means parallel.
{ The wars of Napoleon lasted twenty five
years, and were all the time conducted OF
that scale of magniicence as to numbers ant
expense to life, which characterized him
= Ills campaigns were vastly more expensive
= of life than ours. That Russian campaign wa
e begun with nearly half million of men; i
G ended with few hundred And the mel
d were not merely wounded or left sick to b.
VI restored afterwards, but were killed--in bat
h tle-by starvation-by cold. Such waste
e fitness of life is not known to us at all. w
r hope, too, that our war will not continu,
: quite twenty-five years.
i So the InteJbigeRcer seems to forget The
relative rate of increase in population here
and IN France. Our population doubles in
about twenty years. That of France
J., gains from one to two per cent per annum
b Between the influx of emigrants and the
e coming to years Of minors, we have doubt
G less as many men of military age as wher
h the war begun-perhaps more.
/ Another consideration of great Importance
\ is, that in France, in Napoleons day, it was
. somewhat more difficult to get bread than
t with us in this 10Th Century. We cult
/ vate the land, and manufacture clothing, by
machinery. We have many times more
power at work in the shape Of steam than
in muscles, counting those Of men and an
imals together. We plant, SOW, hoe, NOW,
: and reap, and thrash by machinery, In the
south of France the old plow of the Romans
may still be seen. One man here will raise
more bread out of the soil than twenty
; Frenchmen.
/ These statements are from memory and
may be proximate rather than specific, but