Year: 1864

The Raising Of the Armies-What viii the Nal
| contents Have?


Those who were in the habit of perusins


Copperhead newspapers and speeches dur
ing the dark days of last winter may remen


Der that the things which afforded them the


NEST delight, and on which they were never


tired Of dwelling, were the alleged inability o.


the Government to raise any more men, and


the general reluctance 10 volunteer. They
lcontransted the general enthusiasm of 1861


with the general apathy Of 1862, and asked
with scornful triumph to what was the change
owing, except to the widespread disgust caus-
ed by the Anti Slavery policy Of the Govern
ment. The 100000 men," whose appear
ance on the scene as soon as the Emancipa-
tion proclamation was issued, had been pro-
missed by Mir. Greeley in moment of poetic
exsltatisn, furnished constant subject for
tsunts and sneers, and jokes more or less pom
deTous. The future was, of course, doubtful,
and many unexpected things might happen,
but O. one thing the public were requested to
rest assured, and that was that there could
not be 10000 men more in all the loyal
States induced for either love or money to enter
the National army to carry out the policy in
! the Proclamation and Confscation act. The
| only hope there was of being able to carry on
| the war at all lay, we were told, in the return
to the programme traced out in the Presi-
dents inaugual and resolutions of Congress,
which at the very outset limited the object of
the war to the restoration of the std,ts quo.


The tide Of events especially in politics,
flows so fast that even those who may rcmem-
ber this language most distinctly, as it poured
from the Democratic newspapers and leeture
rooms, may fancy it farther back than it re-
ally is. But strange as it may seem to those
who pay attention to what the same oracles
are saying at this moment, the Government
was actually defed to raise troops by voluu-
teering down to March last, and everything
that could be said or done..o render volun-
teering unpopular was said or done. The war
was declared to be war for the niggers !" an
unnecessary war, begun through Republican
blood thirstiness; war which might be end
ed at any moment, as the South was ready
and anxious to make peace bloody and
bootless war, in which success was impossible
and in which contractors were enriched while
the Nation was ruined, and finally war, the
object and nature of which had been so COM
pletely and wickedy changed by radicals that
no man, no matter how zealousIy he might
have supported it at first, was bound to lend
it one minutes further support.


The Conseription act was passed, but the
Emancipation Proclamation remained unrevok-
ed the COHfseation act remained unrepealed;
the arming of the negroes went on busily.-
Not one jet or title of all the things in the
policy OF the Government, which the Copper
head agitators had declared fatal to the sup
port of the army by volunteering, was chang
ed or modified, and yet since last March they
have passed most Of their time in calling the
world to witness that the willingness to vol
unteer is as great as ever that the martial
spirit of the country is in DO wise abated
that the ease with which the President raised
troops by merely calling for them in the first
year of the war, proves the folly and wicked
ness of the Administration in attempting to
raise them by force now, inasmuch as the
feelings which prompted men to enlist in the
first campaign we're as active and as inanen-
cial as ever. Anybody has only to look at
this moment into any Copperhead newspapers
and peruse an article or letter on the Con-
scription to find the readiness with which the
volunteers can be procured, and especially in
Democratic districts, as the strongest argu-
ment against the enforcement of the act.


So that we are driven to the conclusion
that either during the Winter of 1862, the
whole band, from Governor Seymour down
rresistently and maliciously stated what they
knew was not true when they proclaimed to the
world that the Emancipation Proclamation
and the Confscation and Negro enrolment
acts had deprived the war OF the support of
the country, and that no more soldiers could
be procured to aid in carrying it on or else
that they now state what they know to be
untrue, and fasify persistently and malicious,
ly, in alleging that volunteers can be had by
asking for them. We admit that 10 the con-
duct for party warfare as they wage it, lyibg
is necessary; but we counsel them as q mea-
sure of expediency to lie in one direction
throughout. The affirmation of two directly
contrary propositions in the same six months
is waste of falsehood, which even Copper
heads cannot afford.-[N. 7. Times.