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Show Before General Sherman talk's any more nonsense in public about the regular army, we respectfully advisn turn to consult 11. e official record ol its history. Ho will learn, if he docs this, that the nation contrived to bear tne worst strain of the civil war in 1S03 01 with a regular army amount irjgin round numbers to 4O.0OJ men, and that two yearn afi-T L-a had laid down bin s word :".t Appomattox the corrupt manipulations ut ttie republican republi-can majority at W.islnntou swelled the numbers of the rvgular army to 50,000 men, thu burdening ttie taxpayers tax-payers ot the United Slates in a lime ,of profound p:ace with a wicked and waolefal annual outlay of abut $10,-000,000 $10,-000,000 over aud above too expense of tbe whole army which was found adequate to our nuf-ds in tuo worst crisis of strile through which we have ever been called to paw. In 1860 10,000 men e.ufricrd tor our whole regular force Toeru is no sort ol reason for maintaining now a regular army of more than la, 000 men at the outside, and yet in lb'74 a republican congress fixed the loree at 25,000 men. World. |