Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1864-06-25
The IDnngcr Of. Exhuustion.

The Danger OF ExhuustlOn.
There are tbose-indeed, we may say
there are comparatively few others OF our
whole popua,ion-who absurdly fancy that
our country and our countrymcn diiie1 80
widely from other countries and poolltsJ
That no lessons can bcdeduced from history
which are applicable to US in our struggt
% pa-p.lua,e our national existence that
oul enterprise AMI the .roductiveness Of or
COUNTRY and our superior intelligence Y
aYe al g ~ contrast with III other countries
anu peoples. u.at what WAS impossible to
them no, only possible, bns most easy OF
accomplishment 10 usi But tlii. pleasant
coareit canno, alter FACTS. This quality in
oar national character has had much TO do
Ia Involving us in the ruinous conflict now
raging with undim'nishcd violence but it
VIII never cxcr, til- slightest influence in
extiicaiing Us f.om It We shall find, to
our sorrow. in the end" TOO late to avail
us-lhat W are subiec; 70 the same general
!iw, ~ the rest of mankind. and that the
ha,iucination We speak OF has been but a
snare tn orr f.ct
Generality, The ability to keep an army in
the ii Ill dcp,nl- ulon the financial resour-
ccs Of pcople-npnn their a'tnjers and the
product,vcness OF their industry That
proposition is Just as true Of us asst was OF
the Romans Of an ancient and the French of
mo lcrn times Ii is an incxorable law,
W. L..-~~- ~I-.~~-~.~ 90 900.
pend. So Gar as il admits Of any qnalitira
ton the qualified exception inurcs to the
benefit of the enemy am. eorrcspondnclv to
our injury. IIlrl are fighting for theiy
"fircsid and ia, If homes and are AMI
mated by scnim, nts which in the nature of
things can hardly he felt bv the Northern
people. Hem they can continue the strug
gle more vigorously and much longer than
we can with an exhausted exchequer But
our main purpose was to call attention to the
candid remarks Of the National Mtd1igfncer
which are here snbjoined:
The seven hundred thousand men put
in the field during the last year arc exclu-
sive of those whose previous term Of enlist
nent Tor three years, dating from the sum-
mer and fall of 1861, has not vet expired
and are, we suppose, exclusive Of tire hun
bred days men recently added to our pres
ent forces The vast aggregate Of the troops
now under arms in our service, and on the
pay rolls, can therefore be easily conceived,
il not accurately known, in the absence Of
official statistics. The number can fall but
little, if any, below million Of men, and
certainly touches height which .justifics
the statement of Mr.. Wilson when he says
that the country has made an excrtion to
fill up the ranks of the army such as few
nations ever made and few nations can
make -
Rome, in the time of Augustus, with q
population of l2o. 0U0, 900. had an army Of
only 100000 When the French Empire,
in the year 1913, under Napoleon |, en-
braced within its limits the territory and
people Of Belgium, Holland. the iTanse
Towns, the Roman States, &C., comprising,
with that of France, population of u ,o00,-
600. The army numbered. at the highest
point, about million of men, thu. imply
ing, rs Allison states, the absorption OF one
in f'rty Of the whole population in tn Pr
sessi N Of arms whereas it has never been
ioune. by experience that an empire. how
slower powerful can for any length of time
flourish with more than one in hundred
engaged in sub pursuits.
The total population Of the loyal States
cannot much exceed $4,000 900, and force
of 100000 drawn from such a population
implies the diversion OF one in thirty three
from the pursuit OF productive industry
rate considerably higher than that which
was obtained underline conscriptions Er the
French army during the period when Ma
Pocon was waclng wax against combined
Europe
We have advcrted to these facts because
OF the continuation they lend to Mr. Wilson'S
statemen when he says that the "excrtion"
made oy the country in putting 700. 0oO
men INTO the liSld during the last year, Is
one few nations have ever made"
IT may be within the recollection of our
readers. that Mr.. Wilson, speaking in the
Senate on the sih of January last. and hay
my reference to the then recent rall Of the
Government for three hundred thousand
men held the following language
IN. Government has called for three
hundred thousand men. and presume that
Is shc number the Government wants. either
o. old veterans who rc-cn'i>t or of new men
More than half of those men, think. we
S''o'' navy SutiStSu NltIU the next twenty
o. thirty days
TN the same day, and in the course of the
same debate, Mr. Wilson said
"A large number Of tn. States will firm.
ish volunteers some will not. think We
4 shall have draft, bw Ido mt heiiere Il Mn
y 0e necessary 70 eohti"us drarfing. We hare
IN TIE serrice ri the country. and are pov;no
in The army, / Mink. not les than s;T inn.
drsd and .tffy or sersn hundred thousand
men: We must har, from .tour to frs hun
4red thousand efsctire soidierx IN the seld
do not btliere that the rebellion has ORR t,ro
Kindred and trenty.nre thousand men IN |
srms, and I hare cry good reason 50 to BE- |
ssere 6elsere, II ice do our dsty. the mill
tory poUer 81 this REBELLION srtH be cruaAerl
?st o.fors the fret Of Octo6ernsrt.
! want to adopt policy that shall. bear "a
flghtly IS possible upon our people-upon
'ur productive industry-and shall an nm
ar armies. Tint is the first question .nt
Il want to save the treasury ali the exnsnss
bat can possibly be saved. I 6e,isrr ovr
Hanger = more from rant of monfu Mon
rom cant Of men,
IsAsEL CUBAs, the popular danseuse died
New York on Monday evening. after .
pg and painful illness. Her disease ~. I