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The Daily Dispatch: July 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway in jail. (search)
ch filled the country with good-officers; but for the volunteer companies of the cities, which served the same purpose of the schools in filling the towns with capable commanders of companies; but for the large quantity of arms, which a Southern Secretary of war, foreseeing the danger in the distance, ordered into our Southern arsenals; but for the volunteering spirit to which these circumstances gave efficiency, the South would have been in as object a state of defencelessness as Poland or Lombardy or Maryland. The federal government on which they relied as their military protector, has turned to be its assailant. The South owes none of her safety to her militia system. As a means of active war the militia is perfectly inefficient. It is of value only as a depository of men from which soldiers may be drafted by the Government, when they do not volunteer in sufficient numbers. That time has not yet come; for vastly more men have volunteered in Virginia than have been accepted