Men in Buckram!
--It appears from the following article in the New York
Herald, that we were not far wrong in conjecturing that the
Federal army of 660,974 consisted, to a large extent of ‘"men on paper."’
Brooks's intimation that
Cameron is pocketing the pay and rations of the supernumeraries, may be the means of procuring that gentleman a free ticket to Fort Lafayette:
Booby Brooks Giving Aid and Comfort to the Enemy.--While the Abolition journals, on one hand, are openly assailing the
Government or undermining it by covert acts because it will not make the war a war of emancipation, one of the Secession journals in this city, which by some mistake was not swept away by the
Secretary of State with the same besom as the
Daily News, the
Day Book, and the
Freeman's Journal, is laboring hard to damage the Administration, by the most outrageous attacks upon its integrity.
We allude to the recent articles of
Booby Brooks, of the
Express, in which he says the 700,000 troops mentioned in the report of
Mr. Cameron,
Secretary of War; as having been raised by the
Government to carry on the war for the
Union share ‘"soldiers on paper only,"’ ‘"men in buckram"’ and that ‘"he has not near 500,000 men in arms,"’ though ‘"the treasury may be bleeding for them."’ In proof of this case,
Booby says, for want of troops, Hatteras is in
status quo Gen. Wool cannot three miles,
McClellan is afraid to go ahead,
Brownlow be relieved for of men by the General in
Kentucky,
Kelly stand at
Romney,
Hunter is quiet in
Kansas, and
Halleck retreats from Western M burg When's, concludes Books,
Mr. Cameron's army only on the payroll, and not in the field."
This is a fair specimen of ure Lin--a newspaper threatened with for daring to at there are really not quits 700,000 Yankees in the field, though they may be on the pay roll!
