, 1864-06-30
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Some statements were made in the Senate
a few days since, by Mr. Wilson, Chairman,
Of the Committee on Military AtMIrs, which
will doubtless Interest the country to know.
In conversation with Mr. Conness Of Cali
Government bad been "Epasmod{c,h he re-
piled:
''ME. WI1soN. Does The Senator (Mr. ponnessl
knew That ~Y hare raised or re,en1tated since he
en not m 10 count blacs s. men and shst within tie
last year We have put In the aeld seven hundred
thousand men: that We hare made az exettton.
can make; that we hare spent $1s5. .0oo, 900 In
bountiea; that we have dratted; that we hare
uaed the who'e power and influence OF the Govern.
have rIt firth effort that excites the astonish-
mint, and commands the admiration OF the world
"biE, that senator should remember that come
of u iio IL. communities where the calls are o1rr
nnd over afaiq where Sous, bfothetr, featiycs,
f'rnds, nefshho'f nll have been eusamonei to
tle aeld Vt 1nly and have responded to these cal,s
While We, their representatives, are ready to vote
s a. o me- and S soed SAbs psst Is shy
our s ssss s.a m9s11 oas nnd Il '1s es
h,onl. Th!s rebellion Ia co!led,' to use the Ian
guage ot dcn. Hooker. At Richmond, and within
foriy-e,ght Thousand men to reinforce Gen. Grant
since ,!tlr commit neement OF the march on therebel
sarltsl Within thi.t, daya We have gathered ap
ii se s.ta s's Of u
We can thus sec two things: one, that our
exertions for filing up. the army have not
been continued, and that with success. Tho
other is, tlut the inability Of the Government
to get soldiers by volunteering does
not appear In this record. It was
announced over q year ago that yolun-
teering was "played out"; but this army Of
Vh1nnfpnrjnn
/. is ,t1uc that enormous bcuntfes were used
to Induce enlistments; bnt it is not certain
TINT 90 large bountics were anS necessity In
the case; nor that as many soldiers might
not have been had for half The money. Pc
cuniary Inducements are not the strongest
which operate upon the minds Of many men
ut least, to induce them to join the army;
If they were, We should not see. young men
leave salaries Of S700 year to receive twelve
dollars per month in the military and naval
worth the name, yet they fight and march as
well as our own.
Volunteering moy, Or may not, be the best
form of raising soldiers; but it has brought
them 80 far, and with IS much SUCCESS in the
late months Of the war as In the earlier
ones.
But the National IateHigencsr, in which We
find Mr.. Wilson's statements, makes IN IN
authorized aud mischievous use Of them. It's
conclusion Is that tue country Ia exhausted
OF Its military force Its statement ia that
our en1lstments have taken one in thirty
three from the active pursuits Of industry
rate higher than that which obtained under
the conscriplions for the French army during
the period Of Napo1con's wars; and that ALI
son attributes the overthrow Of Napoleon to
the, violation Of the physical laws upon
which the safety Of the nation depends.
The Lutelljgeneer seems desirous OF making
ont a case Which shalt tell against the loyal
A1Y~1sr IT, - r
some facts belonging to 1t, OF does not care
TO exhibit Them
In Its rsckonings of the troops called. out
since the war begun, 1t counts all together,
as If all enlisted were different men. For
instance, we have the; first cali for 75,0O0;
then the next Of C00, 900, Of 16d1-a. Then,
in July, 1862, we have a call for 800, 900;
Of 10o, 600 more militia to drive back Gen.
Lee. Then we hare draft Of s00, 600 land
which yielded, If we rightly remember,
about 20, ,000). And now, since October last,
we have, as Senator Wilson says, 1000
more
Now, the InteNtqene<rs inference is that all
these troops are different men, while we all
know that the same man may count two or
three times in the different calls. The three
months. nine months mea, aud the militia
are either returned to the pursuits Of indus
try OF have enlisted again. Of this 700, 900,
considerable proportion are relnlistments
Of veterans In the field.
If we allow that the proportion Of men In
the military service Is as large as claimed,
the inlerences Of the IhteQjgeneer do not
necessarily follow. The cnaes Of this cpun-
try and Of France in Napoleon's day are not
by any means parallel.
The wars Of Napoleon lasted twenty-five
years, and were all tho time conducted upon
that scale Of ma agnidcence as to numbers and
expense to life, which characterized him.
His campaigns were vastly more expensive
of life than ours. That Russian canpaign
was begun with near half million of men;
1t ended with few hundred. Aud the men
were not merely wounded nor left sick to be
restored afterwards, but were kil1ed-in bat
tle-by etaryation-by cold. Such waste
fnlnees Of life is not known to us at all. We
hope, too, that our war will not continue
quite twenty-five years,
So the IntrI!igenosr seems to forget the
relative rate Of increase in population, here
about twenty years. That 'isa Of Flauce gains us
from one to two per cent Per annum. Be-
tween the influx Of emigrants and the com.
ing to years Of minors, We have doubtless Us
many men Of military nge as when the war
bcgun-perhaps more.
Another consideration Of great Importance
is, that in France, In Napoleon's day, 1t was
somewhat more difficult to get bread than
with us in this 10Th Century. We cultivate
the land, md manufacture clothing, By
machinery. We have many times more pow;
er at work In the shape Of steam than In
muscles, counting those Of men and animals
together. We 1lant, SOW. hoe, NOW, md
reap, and thrash by machinery. In the
eouth Of Franco the old p1ow Of the Romaus
may still be seen. One 1nan hero will raise
mole bread out Of the suil than twenty
fIenesmssSAa n q mssSAatements arc from memory md
may be pro1imate ratber than specific, hut
theynre sufficient to show the hollownesa of
such infertnces rs those Of the Ite1tiqeneer,
which arcsthe present capitll Of Copperhead-
lem. j" Ne can afford no more soldiers, SO
let Us give the rebels their demands" It ID
not tElc,