Delaware gazette. (Wilmington, Del.) 1837-1883, 1864-09-02
MIR. Henry q. Raymond, on the
Crisis Of the Country.


From the New York Times
THE chAsls OF THE COUNTRY.
one would imagine, to listen to much Of the talk
which Is heard about the call for 100000, and III.
drait which 10 likely to follow 1t, that the rasiue
OF men for tho United States Army was the cruel
freak of an Eastern tyran; that the war was being
carried on for the amusement or qualification Of
the President and the Cabinet; and that eysrybodv
owed Il to hiS family aud friends to dsfrAud them
of their prey by every conceivable means. The Al
bany atlas d Argue contained a real or pretended
letter, few days ago, from country reader, which
represented prodiSiouS change as having come
over the Republicans In his nsighborhood; that
they were SO outraged by the determination Of the
Government to get more men for the army, that
hundreds Of them were going to vote against the
tyrannical Lincoln In November. They were rails.
Ing men as fast as they eOuld-as fast aa a proper
attention to THAR farms and their business would
let them-as fast, IN short, as was convenient; and
to think Of drafting simply because they had mot
made up their quota, and were mot likely to make
IL up, was more than they could endure The
story was told in strong, bold, democratic way,
and was probably bali fiction aud half exRggera-
tom bat sentiments Of this kind crop out In the
the most ubbounded devotion to the war. Some
people are furious with the Government for want
ing more men; others think II quite natural they
should want them, hut think Il brutal and inhuinan
that they should not make up their minds 10 20
without Them but slill larger numbsr--and this
Glaze includes great many "lOyap ffenas Of the
UnOn-whils acknowledging 1t to be the rlsht and
duty the Government to get recruits, believe IL
to he the right of the public to prevent it, ge,tln
them from amongst the native population 10 every
way short Of armed resistance, and they act up to
their belief They seem to consider their rela.lons
with the Executive something like those Of trav-
elsr with an armed highwaymap; they surrender
with good grace what they cannot concsal, but
nothing more.
But Is this DsmoCrstio2 Is this Republican p
Ia this the way that loyal men ought to stand by
the "best aovernment the world ever saw 2" Does
any one suppose that this war can end successfully
for Us, or end in any way but in ruin, if the men
whom the people have commissioned "to see that
the republic suters no damage" can get no better
support than this from that portion of the popula
tion which is most interested in the preservation of
the Union, and has the ksenest and highest appfe-
citation of lite vslus2 Does any one seriously sup
pose that struggle the throes Of which arc felt
to tho uttermost ends Of the earlh--Which may
without the old Roman sTaggeraton, be fairly CAL
led "orbis terraram psrfSfbatio" be brought
to a triumphant close by speeches and toasis and
drawing cheoks" II We were to judge Of the
disposition Of tbs mass of men at the North from
the desperation Of sons of the efforts which We
witness on the part Of towns, counties and Htates
even, to escape the draft, might fairly conclude
that, IL II were possible, our next army would be
composed entirely OF the swsspings of emigrant
ships, of negro slavss, aud of any other refuse we
could pick up, end--hsrs ia the worst of it-ofth
noble remnant Of the old army Who, faithful to the
last have gone back after three years Of hardship
and danger, TO facs the storm once more. There
Ia hardly county 10 ths North at this moment
which ia not busy selling bonis In order TO buy up
for service 10 the army the worst military material
to be found 10 the Western World--iorsign mer.
cenariea and liberated alavss. The call OF the Gov
eminent for men Is the signal, not for rush 10
arms, but for prOdlgious scratching Of pens, and
isauing Of evidences Of indsbtedness." Every
body who can, takss up his cheek book, not his
sword, and meets tbs Provost. Marshal with o smIl
Ing patriotic face. q
These are unpleasant things TO say but II Is I'M
fortunately high time to eay them. We have got
TO the point where our dangers must be looked in
he face and talked about. And ono Of the Hrst
thing 70 DO said and rsan t- that thsurmv
in the field Is not LlnOoln's army, but ours; thai
the prosecution OF the war Ia our slfair, not his.
And, having laid this to heart Let us all DO frank
and confses Honestly that people in suoh state
ofmnd as the southsrnsrs, with armies ofso much
pluck, spirit and endurance, and 80 we'll led, a,
they put and keep in the field, oannot be snbdued
BY any force katss not composed Of the bone and
sine,O effhe North. that is not composed of mer
who will eight for love of the cause;w who have some
thing more than soldiers respect for the Aag;And
who are animated by higher and better motive,
than any hired alien or Southern held-hand car
ever be.
The country has already made prodlgious and
unprecedented exSrllOns In the raising Of armies
and II the fame and credit Of what Il has already
accomplished were sufficient to rout Lee and Hood
We would strongly advise everybody to take bis
ease, aud go on making money. But Jefferson
Davis knows perfectly we'll how much we have
done, and what great sacrifices we have made; and
yet the knowledge Of 1t does not sauss him to give
way an inch, Its, in sho:t, 10 what we will do,
and not 10 what We have once done that our ihun.
der lies.