The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-06-15

lSuUlduCc, ooIu VI oAnSSAo eA
requirements o. a military life, Hithsasamin
ute faithfulness, brought homst to US, as we
saw every partof it enacted infhe frstyear
81 our late civil war the military enthusi-
asm that pervaded this city when the three
or four regiments came down from the up
country, just before the bombardment Of
Sumter, in April, 1s6l-au the boys fresh in
health, buoyant in spirits, comfortably clad,
and brimful of martial ardor, restivsly chafng
at compulsory inaciou. But the event rudely
demolished oil our a%ntieipations Of speedy
victory. All this again happened at Dork-
ing, where the Germans landed and knocked
the English into slnithereens. Those OF our
officers who brought their best broadcloth,
fine linen, &C., &c, along in trunks, in case
they should wish to go into. society, and lay
by the soldier for m hour or so, and OF
course ct the very first march lost ''store"
clothes, trunks and all, may fnd q satisfac-
ton in the fact that at DoEking the very
same thing happened to the unfortunate
volunteers. The author must have wit
messed the opening Of the late struggle in
France, else we do not see how he could
have ~thoughtef all these little things-unim-
portant in themselves, but serving to make
a perfect picture.
Their German conquerors gave them
credit for brave fighting and good shooting.
sBut, "'says the German, "they are nothing
sat the drill; if they had been as good at
ndrilling as at shooting, we should not be
shere! now" Discipline" says another
for that OF course is what they meant by
drilling-"makes the good SOLDIER
The battle is admirably painted, and the
suferings of the wounded. and then, when
all is over, the feeling of degradation'of the
tn presence OF an Jverbearing for
eign conqueror. ''Think," says the volun-
teer to his grandson, fifty years. after, 'what
those. endured, who, like myself, had
s'been citizens OF the proudest nation on
s'eartb, which had never known disgrace or
s'defeat, and whose boast it used to be that
tahey bore a flag on which the sun never
''set. We had heard-of generosity in war;
eve found none; the war was made by us,
cit was said, and We must take-the conse-
s'quences London and our only arsenal
(Woolwich) captured, we were at the
s'merey OF our captors, and right heavily
''did they tread on our necka. Need I.tell
"you the rest! OF the ransom we had to pay,
sand the taxes raised to cover it, which
s'keep US paupers to this day?
sWhat was there left to US to live for?
%'stripped.of our colonies; Canada and the
"West Indies gone to America; Australia
.forced to separate; India lost forever, after
'tAe English there had all been destroyed,
'vainly trying to hold the country when .ctt
'off from and by their countrymen; Gibral-
"tar and Malta coded to the new naval
''power Germany Ireland Independent,
'taad in perpetual anarchy and revolution
stfWhen I look upon my country as. it is
'.now-its trade gone, its factories silent, its
''harbors empty, a prey to pauperism and
ttdecay, &C., &c. "France was different; war
''coald not take away their rich soil; they
''had no colonies to lose; their broad lands,
(which made their wealth, remained to
them, and they rose again from the blew"
The design OF the writer would appear to
have been two-fold a timely warning to his
countrymen, and also q remohstrance against
the course of the Germans, and their treat
nent of the French. The whole article
in good and quotable things, but
Dur limits forbid further indulgence.