Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-09-16
09Io Statesr1ar1,
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The Ohio Statesman Company.
FRIDAY MORNING, SEPT. 1e.
FROM THE SOUTH.
The Richmond Press ON General
.f- Grants Call for 100000 Men.

WANTED, ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND MEN.
.n From The Richmond Examiner, Sept. s]i
Wanted, hundred thousand men =
only one hundred thousand! just the lit
tie matter of hundred thousand men Is all
that is required to finish up completely and
handsomely this job of subjugation. What
are hundred thousand human cattle? 1t
is a mere trihe; it is all that General Grant
demands. What a SANDER to speak of that
excellent man as butcher What rebuke
to his Copperhead revilers is this little call
of his for only hundred thousand more
1t would take him fully fortnight to get
them all slaughtered-only fortnight; let
him do his best; and he promises that this
trifling requisition shall be his last-posi-
lively his very last. Who will grudge. the
glorious Grant so trifling a hecatOmb as
this hundred thousand more mere human
beings, counting negroes and foreigners.
Give him just this many more, and think Of
the return. The glorious Union will be
saved-all at the inconsiderable cost of this
diminutive addition to the slaughtered lit
tie million or two already buried in this
war.
Since King Richards advertisement for
horse, never has there been such chance
for saving a kingdom at small cost. What
was horse to a king? What are a hum
dred thousand men to Stanton and Grant?
1t is only few thousand more men than
Wellington or Bonaparte had at Waterloo.
And what were those little NapoleOnic wars
to the grand affair which engages the atten-
ton of the universal Yankee nation? A
hundred thousand are only about as many
troops as Marlborough ever commanded !;
the man who conducted some campaigns in
Europe which the vain-glorious English are
in the habit of eXalting into undue propor-
tions. This last demand is only for double
as many men, or such matter, as that row.
ing bandit Caesar was in the habit of taking
with him in his raids into Germany, Gaul,
and Britain. Everybody knows that the
Yankee nation is mightier than any poten-
tate of antiquity, and yet tits notorious that
Xerxes crossed into Greece with at least
ten times as many people as Grant now de-
mands to be sent over to Petersburg; and
is XerXes to Outdo Lincoln?
What reasonable demand is this! A
hundred thousand men to complete the cap
ture of Richmond, town of thirty thou
sand inhabitants, the capital of rebellion,
now absolutely and without any further
doubt, on its very last legs. Since A. Lin
coin called out his first seventy-five thou
sand militia, and benignantly advised the
rebels to disperse, the prospect has never
been so good of crushing out the rebellion.
This positively last and merely supplement-
al reQuisitiOn for recruits is only twenty
five thousand greater than the original ar
my prepared for suppressing the insurrec-
tion in campaign "short, sharp and deci-
sive," which was not TO last, by any posi-
bility, longer than "ninety days." The
Yankees never were deceived by their Gov
ernment. Every one of its long chain of
promises has been realized to the letter. 1t
Is, therefore, moral as well as matnemat-
ical certainty that the rebellion is to 60 un-
der with the forwarding of this last squad
of hundred thousand reinforcements to
Grant. Sherman has taken Atlanta, and
thus half the rebellion is extinguished.
Grant calls for little more help to take
Richmond and to extinguish the other half
only hundred thousand men.
Well, the North will supply this last call;
the Administration at Washington will
raise these reinforcements; they cannot
afford to fail In so important matter; a
thousand millions of dollars year in pa
trOnage, for four years, are at stake; and
what are hundred thousand lives to four
thousand millions, or even twentieth part
of the sum. The men will be furnished;
but what then? Did the first army of sew
enty-five thousand men subdue the South !?
Did the two millions of men subsequently
recruited accomplish the undertaking? Are
we then to fall under the onset of hun
dred thousand recruits inferior in every
moral and physical attribute to the hosts
that preceded them? Such contingency
is not possible. But we have saved our
cause heretofore by standing manfully to
our duty. The same recipie-every man
to his post-will save us again.