The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1865-08-17
The Desperate EGort Made by the RE-
beIlion, and Its Consequences.

The Desperate Enort Made by the Re
beiliOn, ana its Consequence.
Gov. Parsons, in his address 10 tn,
people Of Alabama, a few days since
declared that one hundred and twen.
ty,two thousand men Of that State
were engaged in the war, and that Of
this number seventy thousand are dead
or disabled This is an extraordinary
statement, and, if it be true, il gives
us u new conception Of the despe-
ratencss with which the Confederate
cause vas defended.
BY the census Of 1860, the entire
rumber Of white males in the State ol
Alabama, between the ages Of fifteen
and fifty was 12G,j87, which was only
forty four hundred more than were
actually made Confederato soldiers
Yet what is nsuMiy called the miIitary
age-from Is TO 45 lis farwi hin these
Confederate figures, Moreover very
considerable portion of those within
this military age are usually excluded
from physical or mental disability -
In our first draft, the proportion thus
rejected was about thirtY.oHc out OF
a hundred. In our second draft, in
which the causes cxeinptju3 were
greatly reduced, the proportion was
about twcnty.six out Of a huudred
In the Frcnoh copscriptions, the pro
portion of exempts by disability is
about twenty-five ont Of Il hundred.
Thus only about two thirds or al
most three fourths. Of the male popu.
lation between the ages Of eighteen
and forty five are, ordinarily, deemed
capable of military service. Yet ia
Alabama, during The rebellion. the
conscription inc!uIed striplir gs three
years younger, aud old men five years
older, and still only about less than
four ont Of a hundred received cxemp-
ton, OF course we are not to under
stand the Governor of Alabama as
meaning that the number he desig.
mates were actually engaged in the
heavy campaigning. We must sup.
pose that light duties We're found Tor
the halt and the feeble, and the sick.
But the point is, that the jeff Davis
Government went to the utmost posi-
bic extreme in avaiIing itself of every
particle Of human muscle that could
help on its fortunes.
Gov. Parsons figures also enab le us
to appreciate better the difference in
the efforts actually pat forth by the
rebels and the loyal States. Governor
Buckingham, in his speech at the
Yale celebration the other day. de-
c!ared, with great deal ofiust pride,
that Connecticut had put in the field
over forty thousand men-siX thou,
sand above her regular quota. Few
loyal States did so well as this, in pro
portion to population. Now it hap
pens that in 1860 there were nearly the
same number of white males, between
the ages offifeen and fifty. in Connect.
icut as in Alabama-the number in
the one State being l20,249, in the
other, 126,587, Connecticut, then,
from about the same supply Of mate
rial, contributed only about one third
as much to the national armies as Il
ALBANIA did to the rebel.armics. We
see no reason why this proportion
should not hold good in reference to
all the loyal States as in all the rebel
States. We overcame the "Confede.
racy" with two thirds of our avaiia-
bic soldier material, according to the
Confederate standard, still held in re
scrve.-N. Y. Times.