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The Daily Dispatch: January 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National Crisis. (search)
on, however, among the brave gentlemen who now swell the ranks of the South Carolina soldiery. We take it for granted that men of the highest social pretensions in the South will not be slow to volunteer in the ranks, as the highest nobles and gentlemen of England did on the apprehension of a French invasion. The ranks of the citizen soldiers, raised to defend England, are full to overflowing of the proudest aristocracy of the land, sometimes whole companies being mainly composed of Dukes, Earls and Barons. Moreover, in the organization of a Southern Army, we shall, if we are wise, adopt the system of France, the most military nation of the world, in which every soldier is considered a gentleman, and when off duty as much entitled to courteous recognition from his officer as if both were civilians; and in every case keep the door of promotion to the highest rank open to the humblest private.--Beginning right; enforcing the strictest military discipline, yet discarding the starched,