Year: 1876

supporters, our numerous fellow workers
and assistants are becoming 81 well
trained to their work, that during the
month or two that would necessarily he
required in preparation, we could with
support all ready promised, place our
STAR. upon such footing that we could
be away for >ix or eight months at least
not only without injury TO any interest,
here hut with an increased power for
usefulness, steadily acquired during our
absence by the STAR, so that should we
then return We would resume dH our
present work with increased rather than
diminished resources at our command.


Therefore, in representing our old
comrades. We speak as members of the
party, with full knowledge Of all the
dangers, difficulties and hardships to be
overcome, and with mind made up to
meet and encounter all of them necessa
rily encountered in the full discharge of
n soldiers duties.


Wherever physical force is to he ap
piled, wherever obstacles are to be over
come, we always prefer skilled to un.
skilled labor. We always prefer to SIZE
force applied and directed by intellect
rather than otherwise. We acknowledge
ourselves to have all the preferences
usually found among the regular army
soldier in favor of regular discipline and
drill as compared'to unframed enthusiasm
followed by it's usually hopeless despon-
dency. 81.


Therefore should we have anything to
say about such matters we should use
our strongest efforts to secure an eff.
cheney in drill, and striGtncss in disci-
plinc equal to The s;rictest disciplined
regiment of regulars for the Object of
discipline is to enable the most efficient
one, commander of all, to control the
whole by the force of his own mind;
therefore he who commands needs the
coolest Judgment, the clearest intellect,
the strongest will; TO have the greatest
Of endurance to do the most work, and
to he the last man to W0aken. To bc
sure there are times when everything
depends on individual will, courage, and
daring, when the Jorms Of drill and pa
radc are for the. time being completely
suspended, yet It is even here the
thoroughly trained soldier is the most
valuable, because with suLh men the
greatest individual liberty of action can
he combined together with the most per.
iect control of the actions of all resting
in the hands OF the ono in command.


In very small bodies, powerful mind
may control the separate actions of each
without being materially aided by disci.
pine, but in all large bodies, for all
kinds of warfare, the same class Of men
are always improved by strict discipline
adopted to meet the kind OF warfare to
which they are opposed.


1t has ever been our delight to study
the hidden motives that influence the
actions of communities and Of individ-
uals, this has caused US to make very
wide circle of acquaintance, and to esti-
mate so closely before hand what sup
port we csuld secure for given enter
prise, that those who never investigated
this subject have looked upon our esti-
mates when made as the widest guessing,
and after realization as little short of
prophecy but in this case It is neither
guessing nor prophesy, but the result OF
nearly actual knowledge, derived from
a careful study Of the matter. As re.
suit Ot our observations. we think that
of the class VIC have described, we could
easily raise and have ready TO march ii
need be wi,hin two months full five
hundred volunteers from the Puget
Sound Basin, as many more could he
raised without ,rouhle, of the same class
in the Willamette Valley. Let these be
armed with the most improved weapons
as infantry, send them east Of the noun
tains There mount them, q thousand
more veterans could easily be ADDED in
Eastern Oregon, Eastern Washington,
Idaho, &C., through which these men
would march Their march nronerlv