die; and when the pestilence of war sweeps over the land, must one attempt
to reverse all this relation between wealth and poverty?

When society gets in that happy state, that the rich man has no advantages
over the poor, there will be no need either of drafting or volunteering.
Yet, after all, it is not so unequal as it at first sight appears. War
must have money as well as men, and the former the rich have to furnish;
and if they do this, it is but fair that they should be allowed to furnish
with it also the men to do their fighting. Besides, there must be some
rule that would exempt the men that carry on the business of the country.

We have said this much, because the riots in New York, which might have
ended in national destruction, were brought about by preaching views
directly the opposite of these.

The military spirit is so prevalent in the nation, that in any ordinary
war the Government can get all the troops it wants by giving a moderate
bounty, and wages but a little greater than can be secured at any ordinary
business or occupation. Still, the right to raise them differently should
never be denied it.

When the old militia system was given up in the State, and a certain
number of regiments were raised and equipped and drilled for active duty,
and for which the people paid taxes, it was thought they would furnish all
the quota that would ever be called for from the State--and in any
ordinary war will. The crisis, however, in which we found ourselves had
never been anticipated, and hence not provided against, and when Congress
attempted to do it in what seemed to it the best way, an outcry was raised
of injustice and oppression. It was hard, doubtless, but there are a great
many hard things in the world that have been and have to be borne. The