Year: 1864

service. This discretion was exercised so as allow the payment of the full sum to any par ty who should procure enlistments of men, except those already in the service.

 As the War Department has decided to credit those who should re-enlist on the quota of the several states special agents were ap- pointed and sent to the several military depart ments with instructions to obtain evidence, that proper certificates of muster, and credit were gven and to see that proper orders were issued for the payment of State bourties. The War Department, and the officers ot the several military departments rendered eve ry facility in their power, to secure the object of the agencies. The result has been the en- listment of 3,347 veterans at saving of 26,97l. v over and above the amount which would have been paid for procuring the same num- Der of new recruits The payment of boun- ties was authorized on condition that volun teers should be accredited to the towns where they are enrolled, or have their residence, as ascertained by the Boards of Enrolment. There were, however, no such boards in the military departments to furnish the necessary certificates, and it could not be expected tha: men in the field would renewedly pledge their services unless they could obtain their bounty at the time they should be mustered, and they receive as favorable consideration as those who had never entered the service. To meet their reasonable anticipations, and to obtain the full quota required Of the State, orders were given the Paymaster General to pay bounties to veterans upon certificates from the Adjutant Of the regiment in which they had been re-mustered. l. is desirable that the As sembly take special notice of this order X few volunteers have Hot received bounties, be- cause they did not enlist from, and were not credited. to the towns where they were enroll cd or had their residence. So far as this was done inadvertently, and the volunteer received no local bounty, provision may now be made for payment.

 As the first selectmen are virtually the agents of the towns they were authorized to the quotas of the towns.

 All new recruits have been assigned to rcgi- meuts, battalons, and batteries, n the field except colored men. who have been organized into the Twenty-niuth and fhirtieth Resi- ments The Twenty y-ninth has gone into the field with full ranks, under the flag of the State, to uphold that of the Union. For this they have given their energies and hazarded their lives. They are soldiers fighting our bat ties, and We should give them q soldiers pay and a soldiers protection. The terrible scenes recently enacted at Fort Pillow and Plymouth urge upon us the duty of procuring for them the same treatment which We demand for all engaged in honofable warfare. It may require retaliation. That is q fearful remedy juStltiA- ble only to restrain the barbarous practices of inhuman enemies When it begins for the lowest soldier who should receive death in any other way than in accordance with the laws ot civilized warfare, We should take enemies highest in rank, man for man. life for life. In comparing the records of the AdJutnnt General with those of the War Department. i found that d portion of the enlisted men had not been credited, but on discovering the omis sion. the credit was promptly given The quo r ta assigned to Connecticut under every requ stioE made by the President is thirty-ninc thousand two hundred and fourteen, and the number furnished is forty-two thousand sever hundred and eighty nine.

 It is just to state that one thousand foul hundred and seventy-four drafted men are ! credited who paid communication aud did not enter the service. We have, however, actually sent into the field one thousand five hundred and sixty men for three months, and one thou sand six hundred and nnety-eight for three years, making three thousand two hundred and 1 fifty-eght more than have been required by the President and there now stands credi ! to the State Of three thousand one hundred and seventy-two to apply towards any future call fer service for three years.

 1 Who will not find ineKpressible satisfaction and encouragement iu this new proof the pa

 triotism of this commonwealth ? The spirit of our fathers which in much weakness, ant

 under frequent defeats, carried them through { seven years war, to establish a government fo

 the protection of their liberties and the fiber ties of their children, has been re produced il the efforts and determination of their sons tt

 preserve that government. 1tis more than the annals of the hour-it is the record of actions spr1ging from iust causes reaching forward te legitimate results, and has become part O. the history of the nation written ID the eiooc of our choicest sons

 Riotous proceedings in other States have resulted ill the loss and damage of private property, and while threats of open violence have not recently been executed in this, yet the occurrences of the past year furnish evi lessness under just and wholesome restraint are liable to the same outbursts of passionate disafection, and exposed to like consequences | Should they occur while we have no statute on the subject, the injured party would be se ElUuSl) NCldyCA III OptdiiiiI@ proper indemnity. It would, therefore, be wei to define the responsibility, and the manner ir which the losses may be compensated.

 l It is principle almost universally admit 1 ted that government is under obligation tc give protection to every citizen who does not encourage or engage in the violation of law and in case of failure, it is in duty bound to make good the injury sustained consequent upon such neglect.

 1 Apply the principle to the conflict now ra ging between the friends and the enemies oi the Union, and we find that every word which comforts, every act which encourages, strength ems, and prolongs the rebellion, is demanj for increased taxation to compensate for losses sustained by loyal citizens.

 1 The State and National governments arc only separate parts of one great system, eaci moving in its own orbit, performing its owr functions, each acting in harmony with the other, to define, secure and perpetuate the lib critics of the people, as we'll as to " establish justice and insure domestic tranquility"

 They are founded upon the necessities of ar extended civil organization, and make it al much duty to sustain the General Govern ment in it's efforts to establish justice anc insure domestic tranquility" as it would be tt sustain State authorities, if the State had sove reignty over every question relating to public safety.

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