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Where The Soldiers Come From

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Day
1
Month
May
Year
1847
Copyright
Public Domain
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Among llie docurnents acpompanying the Piesident's Message, is a table, showing the whole number of men enlisied for llie regular arniv. under the " General Rccruiting Service," during the year ending Sept. 30, 1840, to be 2576. Of these, 2176 were eniisted in the Free States, and 400 in the Sla e States.- Middieion Consliluiion. Five times as many soldiers f rom the thirtcen free States, as Trom the fi ficen slave Slates ; and the banles to be chiefly fouglit for tl. e benefit of Southern slnvemongers ! And just so of the U. S. vy - by far t!ie greaiest portion of tlio sailrs being Northern men ; while the oficers, botli of the nrmy and navy, are filled almost vvholly w!th Southern slaveholders, their sons and their relntives. There are now five Major Generáis : WinfieldScott, of Virginia ; Edmund P. Gaines, of Tennessee; Zachary Taylor, of Kentiicky ; Thomas H. Benton, of Missouri; William Cumming oí' Georgia. All from the slaveholding States, and all hut the first, slaveholders. The President has jitst made an ndditional batch of military nppointments, amounting to 184 officers. Of these, 130 are from the slave States! A grenter disparity even than therc wns in the first list, made out previous to the rrjecUon of the Wilmot Proviso.

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Signal of Liberty
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