Western Sun, Volume 3, Number 34, Vincennes, Knox County, 18 August 1810 — Page 1

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SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1810.

NO. 34.

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Thoughts on tht subject of the Discipline of the Militia of the United States in a letter from Governor Harrison of the Indiana Territory, to Governor Scott of Kentucky, NO. II. Vincennes, 17th April, 1S10. Dear Sir, CIRCUMSTANCES of adomeftic nature have prevented my completing1 until now the observations on the difcipline of the militia of the United States, which I promifed in my letter of March 10. There is no political axiom more generally defuied amonft the people of the United States, than that which declares militia to be the only proper defence of a trpublic. Standing armies are univcrfally reprobated and yet, with this juft view of the kind of fo rctt which they ; tight to cherifh, and that which they aught to avoid, it is allonifhing that they fhouid fo neglect the former, as to make the employment of the latter, a matter of abfolute necelfity, upon every sppcarance of danger. We hve, indeed, no militia. That term is properly applied only to citizens who are difciplined, or trained for war. The placing a man's name on a mullcr roll, or including him in a return, will no more confiitute bin) a militia man, than the enrejMltcring his name on a lilf of attorneys or phyficuns, would autiiorife h im to a Hume either of thofe appellations, without the previous ftudy and preparation, by which a knowledge ot law and phytic is only to be acquired. It is to this mi'.hkc of the materials to form a force, for that force itfelf, which is, 1 apprehend, the caufe of our fupiuenefs and confidence. We look at the returns from the Department of War, and find that 630,000 men are enrolled but we forget that not a fiftieth part of them are foldicrs. We might, with nearly the fame propriety, exult in our ability to cope with the fleet of Britain upon the ocean, becaufe we poffcf the materials for forming one ctjual to hers, as to reft our defence upon an aimy which podefku no clhci claim; to the appellation th ui what it would derive liom the law which called it into Invite. Another caufc of the neglcdt of difcipline, ia, our great diftance from any formidable pawer, and the peculiar circumftances of the two ; reat rivid notentates of Lurop; the one commanding the ocean, but with a I.i!.d force fchi cely equai to the oefrncc of ti:rir own ten itories and ti:e o-

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ciples fo oppofite to theirs, and from which their fubjedts may receive lefions that may once more cauic the thrones of the earth

but to ths celerity of their movements, and the manner of their attack. Thefe qualU

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to totter to their foundations. I have no J gular troops, and were pofiefied indeed by

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me ngnt corps, which, in greater or lets numbers were attached to every army. . The fecret then confided in the great multiplication of thefe, and from the fubordi nte duties of fcouts and convoys, to Lring them to enatt a more diiVmguiihed part on the militaiy theatre. A gret re-volution was thus produced in tatties; celerity of movemeut was the gttac d;side ratum, and light infantry, light or borfs aitiilcry, and tiraileurs, vf n'fie men, became the order of the day, and at prcfent form no inconfiderable po tion of the armies ot Europe. An improvrnientin tatties which givrs a greater fupenority to the pre felled foldirr who fights for corqucft ovcr the citizen who bears arms only in the defence of his country, is prrlnps to be regretted and no alternative i? hft to the latter, but to pcrfett therafclves in the fame arts and difcipline. But the defence of our country againfl a forcigu enemy does not conMitute the- only motive for our citizens to perfett thrmfelves in the military art ".he fufety of a republic defend as much upon the quality of arm. and difcipline amongil its uuzrns, ai upon the equality of rights. We mufl become a nation of warriors, or a nation of quakers we ur.ift profciihc every attempt at military improvement, or its lludy mult become univerl'al. Whenever a knowledge of that art is conCned to a minority of the people, that minority will govern. So Hue is this maxim, that i.o inlUnce can be produced ot a itrt- people prrfrrving th-ir lib citir w ho fufirrcd tlie military fj).rit to decline amoii.ft thrm nor vf ny io firij tl em a- lair as thU lpiut peivtl;d :I;r Lj dy vf the nation, !t wb nc until the :i-n.iil'-meiits of ihe treue, th" '-utl,?, and t! r puhlic g-'ClTS. h d foprri?d.d To rertifrs oi t!;r Cmpi'". ?Jat:ui, ti.at a Ho-

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nitcd, could conquer America. But in our prcfent fituation if 50,000 of their beft difciplined tioops were landed in one of the Southern Uates, we (hould find it a work of time and diflicuhy to get rid ot them and that tlie lof we (hould fullain from their depredations, added to the cxpeiucs of our own army, would amount to a lar ger funi than Would be lutfuient to put our militia in fuch a Itatc cf difcipline at would deter every enemy from our lhorc3. One of the greateft modern difcovcries in the military art, confifts in the foimation and application of light troops. The various denominations of thefe form nearly a moiety of tin army organized upon the plan of tiie French tatties and one of the effects of this improvement, is, to dtllroy every l ope of an undifc iplined army, acting againft one cf a Contrary defcription. If our Wcftern militia Oiould ever encounter an European army, they would be aftonifhed to find themfelves oppofed by a body cf men ufing the fame arms, with toual dexterity to themfelves making their attacks with the fame unexpected velocity, and cluding their enemy w ith all the celexityand addrefs which dillinguilhts our bach woods tiflemen. They would find, however, this elTential diffrrenie in favor of their opponent; whilit their own operations Would bedirettedby no fixed plan, tut fuch as might be formed on the moment by their leader ; their attacks diffultoty, uncor: bined, ill fupported, and ih-ir retreats diloiderly their enemy would manoeuvre with all the dexterity which ?ifciplu.e ulone can give uniting the confiitt i;cy combined movemenrs of troops of the !ne, with the alert.iefs of partifau cor - iuch ir the fflfrtt of fcience in war.' Aiiieiic anc France, in their r IpeCl-ve revolution-, lot; i d themfelves attacked by well difc iphi.ed -r mies, to which they !i id nothing to opp )'e but new levies, pollVlling ii.deed, imuvc hiavery, and all the ardour and zel whith are charatterlVic ;f freemen fighting h i their liberties, but without any know I; -de of thole evcljtioi I wii.Ii gave fuch a decided fuperiority to tiicir enemies in every clofe encounter. Another mode of v. arUic was therefore to be purfued ; not new in deed, for the fame plan had fct bcur.di to the Roman corqud'U on the fide cl Pcifia ; ld h.ifH d the legions i: the zenith of their difcipline imdfr ( . r iTu s and Mark Anthony, ;nd at t Utrr period a nioft formidable .iiiiv c idutted by th? ryi cat abditit s of Jj.

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