Year: 1862

Lincoln's Call for Toops-What does 1t

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 Northern Journals announce the startling fact that Mr. Lincoln hascaed for ,0OO ad- ditonal troops, wherewiil to prosecute his un- holy purposes against th southern people There is much for effect in his call We notice, in Memphis federal pape- that five regiments are the number called for fom Wisconsin, and it is stated in the St. Lous Republican that eleven regiments are the portpn under Lincoln's call to be raised in Indiana

 Now, if the amount of troops to be raised in the other northern States, be proportion ac> cording to population, to the lumber allotted to Wisconsin and Indiana, the aggregate will not amount to more than o1se Hundred and ffy Mousond, even if we admit, what improbable, that each regiment shall contain 3ne thousand men.

 Regarding this estimate as corr,ct, we must conclude that the Lincolu goyernmut has pub llshed call for more troops than iteither ex~ poets or desires, and that it must hve some urgent motive for so doing.

 What then can be the motive? 1tcs hardly be to frighten the South into submission, for it must long since have learned that tha is an lnpossblity. It knows long before ths that the Southern people have made up their stern resolve to win or to perish. It cannot be mere bombast to display imaginary resources nnrely for the love of bOasting. On the contrary, the call for so large a number of troops exposes the emptiness of another boast the Yankees have made most frequently, which, it is hardly probable, they would be willing to do for so 1 light cause. This extraordinary call gives tie lie to all their past declarations; it shows that they have an all-powerful foe to deal with, thal they have not yet begun the task of crushing him, and that to succeed they have to increase heir efforts beyond what their government can long support Unless for some object ot the highest importance to accomplish, 1t IS not pro bable that the Yankees would make such an expose by calling for so large Q number o troops more than they really intended to raise

 In our opinion the call is dictated by a pres sing fear of intervention in the war by England and France, and desire to intimidate those powers. This is probably the true motive iol ] the call, and we are confirmed in our belief tha it is by the fact that the call determined l upon before the disasters on the Shennandoat 1 and at Richmond. What else than these disas CTS could have occurred to make the announce ment of such call necessary, but the intelli renee of the intention of foreign governments 10 intervene, and desire to deter them troa 1t And we are still further confirmed in this be lief by the order of the Lincoln governmen calling upon the prisoners taken and paroleC by the Confederates to report for duty " not tl compatible ,cM heir parole" What duty car that be other than service against other govern ments on the Canada frontier, or on their owi sea coast? We imagine no other duty in whicl they would be of service that would not be in compatible with the parol they have given th' Conttdtrates.

 These will probably be the reAt tctions of every one, and yet they may be erroneous. It cer tanly would be the height of folly il the South ern people to act upon them.

 We ought rather to consider that there is nC prospect of relief from foreign nations and tha ne northern government really intends to rais' he 300,000 troops called for, and we should ac accordingly. We should strengthen our veal points, increase our army to the utmost, anc make every preparation necessary for a long, { bloody and relentless war. We should re member that the north has stake in the issue second only to our own in magnitude. TheH .aiioual importance, their wealth and their hoao ire all concerued in the successful termination ,f the war. Without the South they would sinl nto national insiguiicance, be overwhelmed wllb debt and bankrupied in credit to say moth ng of the bitter modification and disgrace of al acknowledged failure.

 This is the predicament into which the north ern government and people have got themselves md 1t will tend nothing to shorten the war, tha t was brought upon the m by their own folly anC ujustice! The war will only end when the, rave yfterly exhausted themselves in the con dict/

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