New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-07-27
wEuUCING OUR ARMIES.

REDUCING QUIZ AHMfES'
| We believe there are less than Two Hundred
Thousand effective men to-day left in the Mill
tary service Of the United States, of whom each
secular dav sees one to four thousand paid oil
and discharged; yet most Of our City cotempo-
raries ion in persistent clamor at the magni-
tude and cost OF our remaining force, and IN Il
demand hat it be rapidly reduced to Fifty II
not to TWENTY-FIVE thousand.
From The South, however we have quite other
represent ations. THE Progress Raleigh AYERS
that the Unionsts, White and Black, OF No n
Carolina, will he under the feet OF the Rebels
from the moment our remaining regiments are
Uihdrawn--that threats Of hanging loyal mon
thcnceiorth are openly made-thai these will be
executed if opportunity shall be afforded.
Hence The Progress demonstrates against tn
lapprehended withdrawal.
Now, North Carolina ia one Of the most loya!
lor the States recently in rebellion. We cannot
doubt iha' majority of her people axe hearty
Unionists. But the arstocracy Of other days
were mainly shareholders, and are not yet
while nearly all the North Carolnians who pos
sess arms and know how TO use them were
soldiers in Lees or in Johnston's army, and are
IstiIl very imperfcctly reconstructed" To
withdraw the Union troops is to surrender
North Carolina into the unrcstraned power OF
these two classes, who regard her Unionists as
Tories" and curse them for the failure OF the
Rebellion. We submit that it is not yet time
for trying this experiment.
In Tennessee, the Unionists have disiran-
chised all who gave willing aid to the Rebel
lion--of course, temporary eIpedient, in
tended to give the State time TO settle into the
ideas and habits of loyalty before paroled priS-
oners, fresh from the Rebel ranks, can take
control of it. We do not pronounce this dis
| franchisement wise or otherwise: we deal with
LII simply as an essential fact. Ii is already
abundantly evident that .ho late Rebels will
quite generally disregard anu defy 1t. We shall
be disappointed if thero he not as many votes
cast throughout he State, aud more in the
western half of it, by eX-Rebols as by consist
ent Cnionsts, though the President is WELD
! ing all his Military power TO sustain the Gov
ernor in his purpose of preventing it. Take
away the troops tomorrow, and the State
would be carried on Thursday week AZ the
mouth Of The revolver by paroled men from
Johnston's and Hoods armies, who would elect
to Congress either ex-Rcbels or Unonst5 OF
the Ethcridge stamp in every District Of the
State but two OF the three in East Tennessee.
If they fall short of this programme, it will he
lentirely due to the Union soldiers remaining IL
the State.
1t is little better in Missouri, where th'
UnionistS decidedly preponderatc, but whittier
thousands of Rebel soldiers have just returned
from Prices and JEFF. Thompson's armies TO iinC
themselves DISTINGUISHED by the new Consttu
D ltion Many if not most of these live in cOuntie
i like Howard and Boone, which were over
whelmingly Rebel at the outset, and are still
preponderantly so. In these counties-and no
in these only-Rebels fresh from "bushwback
ing voted last month to reject the New Consti
tuition, and will vote again and in larger nun
Der at the next State Election. This we can re
gard with tolerable compscency; but disbanC
our remaining soldiers and they will let NJ
hearty Unionist vote wherever they arc Oh,
stronger party; and that will hardly answer.
In Louisiana, as we are assured through
various channels, the power has already yir
tually passed into the hands of the parolet
Rebel soldiers, who will return whomsoevel
they prefer at the ensuing elections. The act
ing Governor, Madison Wells, is already thcil
tool; he appoints, in the main, thinly vanished
Rebels to Office the cry of Down with The
Chase Radicals Down with Negro SUI
frage I" is as patent as "Down with the Adolf
tionists." was in the bad old times; all avowed
outspoken upholder Of the Rights of Man is
barely tolerated in New.Orleans and not toler
ated in the rural districts. Take away what is
left of our army, and Louisiana would be vir.
tually Slave State within a year.
In Arkansas, Gov. Murphy reports increased
and alarming evidences of disaffection and tur
Ibulence since the return of the paroed Rebels
from Kirby Smiths and Dick Taylors armies,
which have impelled him to shut down the gate
on applications for a removal of civil disablli'
ties by pardon He thinks the returned Rebels
now living in peace and safety at their homes,
should remain on probation until it is proved
that they make a good use of their present i'm
munties before they are accorded any more.
And, as he is no Presidential stop-gap, but
regularly elected by the loyal people Of Arkan-