Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1866-02-05
mos. Huges on the American people.

a+ sketch OF the part taken Dy the people
Of the loyal States during our war against
rebellion. "The true hero of the war,
- he says, ais, after all, the American
5 people" He proceeds as follows:
eElrv WHAT THE SMALLEST STATE DID -
Let us look, as first instance, at the
smalleslin area of all the States, and the
smallest in population of all the free
States. Little Rhode Island at the CEN
w r sua Of 1850, Just beforeths breaking out
OF the war, contained q population of
174,620 As usual IN the Eastern States
the females considerably exceeded the
asss males. and Of the latter there were 81
304. Up to December LIST, 1S62-that is
Sc ITO say, 10. less than two years from the
SIS first call of the President for troops
zIl Rhode Island furnished 1925 men to
1855 the army. and ], 400 to the navy, or al
most one in five of her total male spopn-
lation, and Of course, far more than that
proportion Of her men of fighting age
80 between eighteen and forty-6ve. In the
9s FIRST enthusiasm, when the call for 500.
sr 900 men came in the summer of 1861,
the quota OF Rhode Island was 4,057,
and she furnished 5,l24 do not give
the later returns, because there appears
to have been large number of substi.
tutes amongst her recruits after 1862
- and have no means of knowing wheth-
s@ er these were or were not natives Of the
State There is no need to overstate the
case, and / should, on every account
shrink from doing SO. Rhode Island,
49, though tie smallest, is tenth IN rank Of
all the States al q producer, and her
.9G people are consequently rich and pros
porous. If in the latter part of the war
they found substitutes in large numbers
il must be, at the same time, remember
ed that they contributed more largely
s-~ than any other State, in proportion 10
numbers, to thai noblest Of all charities
the Sanitary Commission. - 5aa j
THE WEST.
Bot Englishmen will very likely say,
"Give us an instance of any other but q
New England State; they are exceptions
al Let as take Indiana, then, one of
the Western States, community scarce
half century old. A stronger contrast
TO Rhode Island could scarcely have been
found Indiana in 1860 possessed g.
m l3l TIT acres of improved farming land, |
s Rhode Island but 329 884 Indiana was
fifth of all the States in agricultural
production, and thirteenth in manufact- |
uring-Rhode Island standing tenth, or
- three higher than-her gigantic younger
t. Ii sister Yet we find the same readiness
of response to the Presidents call for
arms amongst the Western farmers as
amongst NEW -EuBiauu mcCudulCb anu
merchants. The population of Indiana
is retained in the census Of 1860 at l
350,428, and her males at Goa, 1863 On
the 3Ist of December, 1862, she had fur
nished 102 698 soldiers besides militia
home guard when her frontiers were |
threatened When Morgan made his
raid in the State, $4,000 rendered their
services within twenty four hours, and
nearly 10000 were on his track within
L 4 1
4 TO have the later returns, and 80 must
- turn back to New England, to the old
Puritan Bay States, TO give one perfect
example Of what the American people |
did in the great struggle.
MASSACHUSETTS.
@g Massachusetts, at the outbreak of the
. e war held a populations Of i 100000 or
thereabouts, out of which there were
267,S33 males between the ages of fifteen
and forty The first blood shed in the
:, :. war against the slave power,sa az in the
Revolutionary war against England, was
Massachusetts blood The Sixth Massa- |
chusetts was fred on in the streets of |
: Baltimore on April 18th, 1851 ,fand had !
: ~ TO Eight its way through the town, losing
four killed and thirty wounded in the |
Operation Well, the number of men |
demanded of Massachusetts dufing the
war was III, 624. The number furnished |
BY her (reducing all to the three years.
standard) was 125.A37, being surplus
over all calls Of 1913 Besides these |
e.670 were mustered in answer to cell
for three months men in 1854, vaich
were never credited to her by the Gov
eminent Look at the meaning now of
this other fact, that she has actually sent
- more men to the war than, are nov 10 be |
$3.50 found In the State liable 10 do military
!, duty. How does this tell as to,wear and
tear of the human material in those /
ssssS Southern eRmpaigns2 The last assessors |
returns gave these at l3S. 767; while the
total number who served (includng !
- three and mine months men, and not
adhering to the three years sstani1d)
was I53, 486. Ont of these how many
~ does the reader (who has probably heard
more or less OF stopping the war by
prohibiting emigration from Ireland"
and of New England hiring foreign l
mercenaries- to do the fghting") think
-ssseA were foreign recruits2 just 907. This
does not include men born out Of the
~ States, but resident or naturalized there
3 e. befora the wa. broke out These latter,
however, j suppose could not come with
in the definition of foreign mercenaries;
and, of foreigners arriving in America
during the war, Massachusetts enlisted,
= ~ as l. have said, 907 out $50, 600 While
on this point may add rihat the most
IOrco5
of the North show that of native born |
Americans there were nearly 80 per
cent, OF naturahzed Americans 10, of
foreigners per cent only, in the ranks.
80 49, - CONTRIBUTIONS .. "a
need scarcely. pause to not chow the
Northern people have paid in purse as
well as in person. Let one instance
fs-a suffice In 1864 the assessment Of Mas
sachusetts for taxes to support the Gen
-IeraI Government amounted to fourteen
millions, every fraction Of which was
collected without impediment or delay
Add to this the State taxation, and the
amounts contributed to the Sanitary
Commission, and other organizations for
q distributing voluntary contributions in
81 support of the war, and we should reach
figure almost exceeding belief /
have no means of stating it accurately,
but am quite safe in putting it as high
-, as twenty Eve millions of dollars, actu-
- ally raised and paid BY q State With
population less than half of that of our
metropolis, in one twelve month.
afdsa - PERSONAL ExAKPLEs. ~
And now for my second point-the
.Eias example set by the men Of birth, wealth
~ and high position. Here, too, feel
sure that few simple faets, taken at
? g - hazard from the mass which have under
NV hand will be more than enough to
satisfy every Just and generous man