Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1877-11-10
COMMUNICATED.
WHAT WILL CONGRESS DO
WITH THE ARMYi
ARTICLE 4

/ pay of the $4,000 surplus human beings,
called 10 particular employment IN the
/ United States by law. And they ought
to be paid, and this Congress will do
and righifully. But when they havs
been paid for useless service rendered
then whatf l will answer this question
! according as il seems 10 me-disband
them every one. And what would be
the probable effect upon society. both
in this aud in other countries' Other
Governments would first look at it as
the first step TO anarchy, and next To
our overthrow. But, upon further
! examination, they would see that COM
parison with their systems would not
do, and their more scrutiuiziug states
men would regard it in perfect harmo-
ny with republican government, and
would instruct their people 10 regard
the abandonment of the army Of the
union of States as a new power IN the
| confederation because it would be a
| step towards re-es,ablishing the sover.
eighty of the States, without which the
republicanism of the States is a mere
farce. They would discover the def
cheney supplied by militia organization
in every State And the martial spirit
of the people now tardily delegated TO
the army, would be seen 10 revive ia
the breasts of the people, and would
thus respect the power of the United
States, now exercised 10y the direct re
sponsibility of the people under military
leaders, prepared aud qualified 10y State
Military Iustilules-such as the world
renowned Jackson presided over in Nir-
ginia- Will any sane man doubt the
ability OF his pupil 10 command an army
in times of co1tlic,. Such will be the
conclusions arrived at by foreign pow
ers, end among them our Republic will
assume a grandeur unsurpassed 10y any
OH the face Of the earth.
At home, the feeling Of pride will vie
with legal State enactment, TO engender
and put to practice both a voluntary
and militia system of military discipline
more efficient than the army system
now 10 practice. And whyi Because
it will not as business separate the
civilian from the soldier, but would in
one the virtues of both. No lazy
drones will under it infest the Union
| hive. do not mean that soldiers who
are such rs business are naturally i'll
| dolent, but become so as natural coz
sequence from the inactive life they are
required 10 live, hence, when called into
the field OF active strife, they are not so
able 10 undergo fatigue as the citizen
soldier, who has come from The labor.
ious life IN The fields of husbandry, the
busy shops of mechanics, aud even mer-
chants far surpass them in bodily enIur-
ance. This explains why il is so often
remarked in the histories of wars, viz:
"If only the regulars had arrived in
time il might have been dffrIeDt. But
the failure To arrive in line was, per-
haps. due 10 the fact that the regulars
could not endure the long and laborious
marches. Was il ever witnessed that
regulars were called ubiquous, as was
the 'Stonewall Brigade, composed OF
Virginia cilzensi have no knowl-
edge of such distinction, either in an
cient or Inodern history. Another anti
republican effect is produced upon the
regulars by the rnonarchial discipline
exercises in the regular army of implicit
obedience TO orders from what il con-
venlonalIy called supoio's. Mems
manhood is subordinate to the ipse dixit
Of set of graded officers, who strut in
arrogance from their cadetshp 10 tho
end Of their days, with tew exceptions
most OF them taking their standard from
Marius the Roman. The mGnarchial
system OF standing armies now connived
at by some OF our highest ranked Off
GERS, is a bad symptom IN Republican
America When we reflect on the fact
that many Of the European wars aro
commenced for the purpose Of giving
their great standing armies employment
and 10 reduce them 10 order Ia mako
room for the conscripts, actually killing
of one set Of iossi,ized soldiers 10 mako
room for another And that is the pa:-
tern our General would have us follow.
Oh! how the ebbing tide Of our free.
dom has been carrying US backward on
the sea of unrest. This retained relic
of despotisin, what fearful strides il has
made in the past decade aud bait to.
wards destroying liberty well-Digb has
il eDslaved the white race, in freeing
the black, as if the one was consequent
upon the other; but really for the selfish
purpose of continuing ia power, the iD.
compatible element 80 foreign 10 our
form OF government, aud so accidental.
ly empowered. In brief, the unjust aud
unrighIeous use which has been made
Of the army since the war fully justifes
its extinction, even If those outTsges
have been sbaled by an over-ruling
Providence. There is danger 10 the r.
public so long a, il is permitted 10 exit
by Congress LIS fearful usurpsiiocs In
the South since the war, has branded it
forever as the tool Of oppression and
the engine of cruelty and despotism, all
of which are sadly i1imical TO free
government Let patriots sound the
alarm through the whole land. Down
with the army. T.
Charlestown, Nov. 6.
He had not slept wink for twenty