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the recruiting of the old regiments. Thiscan rot be done by the ordinary process.There remains but ore method— com ■Uda tio». This must be voluntary, or the warDettriment must order iu Generals hava noauthority to do it. The origin*’ regiments which have fought out fame will not consent. It would be unjust and mischievous to require them do it. There is an alternative,which might be, and should be, adopted. Merge the new regiments into the o’d, supplying vp.caccifs of officers in the latter by the best officetB of the former, and muster the remainder out of service. This wouldsatisfy the privates, generally, and it would benefit the country. Rejected officers wouldgrumble, but what are tne complaint! of in dividnals considered in the light of public interests? Ignorant and inexperienced officers would be released from responsibilities j \ they are incapable to administer, at d meritorious soldiers wou'd be afforded an opportu nity to serve their conn try ably. A effort will be made by Gen Rosecrans to recruit the old r# giments by suggesting the voluntary mode, bat the public must percieve that it is a sutjeet which the War Department ehfuld determine by imperative order. Considered even as an economical question, it i« highly important. Why pay a thousand officers when five hundred arc competent to discharge the duties now devolved upon the greater number? Some Colonels are cow commanding two or three hundred men each; some Captains from thirty down to five. Why not retain th?se’ fill up their compai iee and regiments from the new organizations, and assign the* best offic-rs of the latter to the vacancies in the former. Ohio has about one hundred and twenty five Colon els. as many Lien ter ant-Oalonele, as many Majors, as many Adjutants and as many other minor executive officers for tha many regiments in the field. These might be reduced to, say, seventy five or ahundred of lt;ach grade. Say a hundred, forargument. A Colonel's annual pay amounts tc over $2,200; The reduction of this clesr of ’officers^ alcne, in Ohio regiments, to 't'ua n*cxe:ary number, would tUcrefjre abou;SCO 000 pr»(.uu This is a ^erylow ts imate, tut you perceive, not-A hstanaiag, that it is a cocsicerable Estimat n* theo r.er Eupernumcr^rjcs Up0n the samebis’s,v’l'u)d Groover an aggregate of nearly$200 C00 per annum. economized in the payGtpT mcnt aJoDe. I b lieve nearly $360,000 ’Jk’cu’d rt tllj be saved, if the excision of su*perntmerarics should be jn3tly made. Eve*yrigiuent gbould b? filled to the maximum number, and every surplus officer should be museied out of service. Consolidation byciuer cf Denartment is the gi ly w*ybr which it can be effaofcid. Toe lawnot permit the assignment cf dref ed men to the thjee gears’ r*gixents. It gives tC6rn the right to* tied their own officers. Therefore, ihtir organization mutt bs su:taictd i tact. The prtss tbculd “ write up M tbir s ib-jtct until the torpid Government is vitalized.ROMRTHIN'G M ’HE OF mariPLTVW
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Cincinnati Daily Commercial
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Fri, Nov 07, 1862
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