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Inc following article, from the Richmond Re
publican, does justice, and no more than Justice, tc
the services OF our gallant little army a.tt


"THE MEReEsARrEs." This title, sometimes Extensively
applied to the regular army Of the United States entirely
unjust and undeseed Our army is composed Of American
and Irish citizens, who adopt the Military Of the
country as their profession and who just as much
cenares as all the OF The Government from the
President down. and not particle They paid and
50 are volunteers the President and the other office hold
es No man goeth to warfare upon his own charges
Their pay smaltoo small to be any object venal minds
ihey enter our service from choice and not DugalC
Dalgey like, prepared to sell themselves to the highest bid
der They are not mercenares and ought be called
so, in the offensive in which that term used


We trust that the country after this Mexican will hea
no more ungenerous filings at the standing army. While
has not been sufficiently large be of danger the country


has proved itself large enough be dangerous the public
enemies Never has the army of any country exhibited
greater and DEVOTION brighter laures upon the
field of bloody strife.


Where, but for these mercenares, would have been the
military ect which the country has achevedand the long strides
she has made into the heart of the Mexican Republic II is
doing disce volunteers ask who but regulars could
have forced their way from Point Isabel to Fort Brown No
be brayer than the citizen soldiers of America but





volunteers fought nobly Monterey but remember
The long period of discipline which they passed under the eye
OF regular officers up to that moment and which, in fact
made most of the volunteers regulars in every thing but the
name.


The COOL steady, and unshaken valor which the army dis
played at Monterey has been surpassed appalling
to think of the fearful havoc in the third regiment but the


mercenares received il matter of Like the


Old Guard at Waterloo, they could die but they could
surrender The value Of scientific generalshp and well
drilled sodiery beautifully exempfed than
in the operations under Gen. Worth correspondent Of
the Spirit of the Times attached Gen. Taylo immediate
command, says


Tuesday, September 22.-At daybreak all the
forced to lie down in the mud, the rain still pouring down.
No could raise his head without drawing fire upon us
ust at the gray dawn of day witnessed Wort stormng
of the heights which commanded the Bishops Palace The
first nmation had OF il the discharge of musketry
near the top of the hill Each flash looked like an electric
spark The flashes and the white smoke ascended the hill
side steadily worked by machinery The dark space
between the apex of the height and the curling smoke Of
musketry became less and less until the whole became
loped in smoke, and knew that the gallant Worth had
carried it, 1t glorious sight, and quite warmed up
cold and chilled bodies"


So much for the value Of the mercenarie exhibited
in this Mexican