We feel certain that this method of handling the Volunteers
will be regarded with warm satisfaction. We may recall here that it follows the linos which were suggested by the Central Association in May of last year. The Act of 1863 and the amending Acts, it should be noted, impose no obligations which interfere with the work and ordinary vocations of members of Volunteer Corps. The Volunteers will remain, as before, masters of their own time (an essential point for those who are fully engaged in private work of all kinds), except in those hours which they voluntarily offer for national work of a military character. If a man offers to devote certain hours to guard work, trench-digging, and so forth, he must of course carry out his promise, and while he is carrying it out he will be in the fullest sense under military discipline, and must perform his work and obey his orders like any other soldier.
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