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Show LirE OF GEN. JACKSON. . CHAP- savages, or the cries of sufl:ering victims. The_torch II, that has been lighted up, must be made to blaze m the ~heart of their own country. It is time they should be made to feel the weight of a power, which, because it was merciful, they believed to be impotent. But how . shall a war so long forborne, and so loudly called for •by retributive justice, betw;tged? Shall we imitate the example of our enemies, iri the disorder of their movements, and the savageness of"th~ir dispositions? Is it worthy the character of American ·soldiers, who take up arms to redress the wrong.s of an injured country, to assume no better model than that furnished them by barbarians? .No, fellow soldiers; great as are the griev. ances that have called us from our homes, we must not permit disorderly passions to tarnish the repu~tion we shall carry along with us ;-we must and wtll be victorious ; but we must conquer as men who mve nothing to chance, and who, in the midst of victory, can still be mindful of what is due to humanity ! " We will commence the campaign by an inviolable attention to discipline ancl subordination. Without a strict observance of these, victory must ever be uncertain, and ought hardly to be exulted in, even when gained. To what but the entire disregard of order and subordination, are we to ascribe the disasters which have attet1ded our arms in the north, during the present war ? How glorious will it be to remove the blots, which have tarnished the fair character bequeathed us by the fathers of our revolution ! The bosom of your general 'is full of hope. He knows the ardour w~ch animates you, and already exults in the triumph, whtch your strict observance of discipline and good order will render certain." LIFE OF GEN. JACKSON. 35 For the police of his camp, he announced the fol- CHAP. lowing order : II. " The chain of sentinels will be marked, and the~ sentries posted, precisely at ten o'clock to day. . "No sutler will be suffered to sell spiritous liquors to any soldier, without permission, in writing, from a commissioned officer, under the penalties prescribed by the rules and articles of war. "No citizen will be permitted to pass the chain of sentinels, after retreat beat in tl1e evening, until reveille in the monung. Drunketmess, the bane of all orderly encampments, is positively forbidden, both in officers and privates : officers, under the penalty of immediate arrest ; and privates, of being placed under guard, there to remain, until liberated by a court martial. " At reveille beat, all officers and soldiers are to appear on parade, with tl1eir arms and accoutrements in proper order. " On parade, silence, the duty of a soldier, is positively commanded. " No officer or soldier is to sleep out of camp, but by permission obtained." These rules, to those who had scarcely yet passed the line that separates the citizen from the soldier, and who had not yet laid aside the notions of self sovereignty, had the appearance of too much rigour ; but the general well knew, that the expedition in which they were embarked involved much hazard; and that, although such lively feelings were manifested now, yet when hardships pressed, tl1ese might cease. He considered it much safer, therefore, to lay before them, at once, the rules of conduct to which tl1ey |
