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WEDNESDAY MORNINO, JULY 27, 1864.
B. A. CASSID Y, Editor and Publisher.
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all necessary Information as to tlie methods of keep
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titled to it; what are the requisites exacted by the
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Aside from this THE SOLDIERS' JOURNAL will
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ter. It is the intention of those engaged in its publi
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believed that the varied talent pledged to its support
will enable it to take at least a respectable rank
among the journals of the country.
The Border State Militia.
No course of argument is necessary to con
vince the people of the loyal States that the reb
els have not relinquished the hope that, by some
turn of circumstances, they may be able to exe
cute their long cherished plan of transferring
the war from their own to our soil. We are just
beginning to recover from the effects of their
annual invasion, the third since the war began,
tit behooves us to look around and devise
ns to prevent a similar occurrence in future,
late demonstration, it is true, was not so
lidable as either of the two others, but who
will deny that the enemy have done more injury
during the one just terminated than at any for
mer time. At Antietam and Gettysburg they
were soundly thrashed and sent bootless back
Into their own territory, but not so in this in
stance. They entered Maryland, almost without
resistance, and after pushing their columns to the
very gates of the capital, are permitted to retire
in the almost undisputed possession of a larger
amount of spoils than they realized in both their
previous campaigns combined. Through the
Providence of God and the invincible courage of
• small band of patriots, the nation was spared
captives to the traitors. But how stood matters
at homo while this state of affairs existed here—
while the enemy was hammering at the gates of
the capital for admission ? It appears that the
militia were wrangling amongst themselves and
with the Stat© authorities about unimportant
military technicalities, absolutely seeking by
various subterfuges to avoid the requirements of
the order altogether, and while they were en
gaged in this foolish and unpatriotic business the
enemy was destroying all the railroads leading
to the scene of national peril, extorting heavy
contributions from, and burning the residences
1 of, private citizens and public officers, driving
J off the stock and systematically despoiling a
j broad expanse of territory which the prompt
action of the local military of the border States
might have saved from invasion. After doing
all the damage they could, and securing their
spoils, the enemy quietly retired pursuing almost
the same lino on which they entered our ter
ritory. If the country has not been sufficiently
chastised for her apathy, and fails to improve
the lessons conveyed in these incursions by
making the necessary preparation to prevent
their repetition, she deserves all, and much more,
than she has yet received. If the hundreds of
thousands of available men in the North are so
insensible to the demands of patriotism and the
j common instinct of self-preservation as to look
with cowardly indifference upon the destruction
of their own, or brother's property, and the hu
miliation of their country, the rancor of a traitor
is incapable of inflicting a punishment commen
surate to their crime. Had the local military of
the border States, whose duty it was to respond
promptly and cheerfully to the call of the gov
ernment in such a crisis, exhibited a tithe of the
Irdnek and activity usually displayed by the non
ibatants of the rebel States under similar cir
tstances, not one rebel in ten of those who
sred Maryland would have returned to tell
story of their discomfiture,
tie raid is now over, and the enemy is safely
jonced with his trophies in the shape of fine
ses, fat cattle, greenbacks, etc., in his own
le, beyond the reach of the home-guards, but
dereliction of the militia will be retrieved, in
,no doubt, by the men w r ho, as soldiers, rec
ze no "State lines" but fight the enemy
rever they find him. It remains to be seen,
ever, whether the late immensely expensive
>n will be improved by the citizens of the
es devastated or endangered, but should
refuse to learn they should be left to suffer.
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jnorable Burial op Our Defenders.—
>nel Wisewell, Military Governor, having
jested to Secretary Stanton the removal to
National Cemetery of the bodies of the brave
who fell in the defense of Washington, the
etary instantly wrote the order :—
ar Department, July 18, 1864.—Ordered
»«" the Military Governor of Washington cause
the Union soldiers who were killed in the re
cent defence of Washington to be carefully disin
terred and honorably buried in the National
Cemetery, with suitable care and materials to
preserve their identity.
(Signed) Edwin M. Stanton
Tho above order has been modified and General
Meigs has selected a spot in the vicinity of Fort
Stevens for an inclosure, which shall receive
those who fell in the defence of Washington on j
this occasion, no other persons to be buried
Honor the Brave.
At no time since the outbreak of the rebellion
has the country witnessed so signal a demonstra
tion of the devotion of her soldiers as during the
late rebel raid into Maryland and the District of
Columbia. The enthusiasm of the 13th of April,
1861, never had a parallel until July llth, 1864.—
In the first instance, the announcement that the
South Carolina traitors had fired on Fort Sum -
I ter brought into the field the patriot sons of the
loyal North in such numbers that they could not
all be accepted, and they returned to their homes
in many instances sorely disappointed because
an opportunity was not afforded them to show
their devotion to their country and her flag by
shouldering the musket in their defense. In the
last instance, the wounded and worn-out heroes
of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House,
Cold Harbor and Petersburg, arose from their
hospital couches and swarmed around the coun
try's standard when it was published that the
enemy had appeared before and threatened the
capital, all anxious to lend a hand in driving the
audacious traitors from our border. This was
patriotism—an example of devotion to country
that should forever silence the unjust imputa
tions of those who say that greenbacks are the
incentive to duty, and that patriotism is dead.—
How nobly the conduct of these war-worn and
battle-scarred patriots compares with that of the
silk-stocking militia, who should have been
isee themselves surpassed in zeal for
ation of their own hearthstones by
ho had nothing to lose or gain, in a
point of view, by either the success
>n of the enemy. While the militia
id in cowardly tergiversation in ref
io term of their service and how far
1 be required to follow, or to what
pould be expected to resist the enemy,
fell in, hastened to the scene of dan
fore the militia had perfected their
v, had driven the invader from our
ed the honor of the nation,
the country will delight to honor
men and true patriots, and after the
rminated in the re-establishment of
authority over an unbroken Union,
i will be inscribed on the brightest
history of our struggle for universal
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tish Pirate.—The loss of the Ala
i to be felt more keenly by the Eng
y the rebels. They feel it, because it
nferiority of their navy to our own,
them what they may expect in the
ey try to account for the defeat, by
But the facts cannot be put out of
Alabama had a larger armament
sarsarge, an equal number, or very
f men, and gunners trained by the
he was prepared for the conflict, and
d his friend Lancaster of the Royal
idron, felt sure of an easy victory.—
s galling; for it was an English ship
aten. The.Deerhound was the Ato-\
ier. Of this there is plenary proof; for
t on Sunday morning, before the
. took place, Semmes sent his sixjy ,
nometers on board the yacht for safe
id they are now in his possession.—
;he fact that Mr. Lancaster "ran Off
ate concealed in his hold, leaves no
complicity with the rebel. A stir
tould be written which our jolly tars
the ears of tho men who built and
English pirate.— Exchange.
