Mr. CUNKLING. An insinuation has been made, I hope not by design, that those who oppose this measure oppose the defenders of the country, or are wanting in a sense of justiee and gratitude to the defenders of the country. The case is put as if here was an occasion to do an act of justice for the general good of those who went out from the fireside to the cam to maintain on far distant battlefields the ife and glory of their country. For one I deny this in toto. I repel the insiiiuntiou, and I can show that nothing could be a more heartless mockery than to pretend that the real sufferers by the war have any interest on earth in adding 5 regiments to the number of men required for the regular Army, for the purpose O organizing ten of them in the manner proposed. 1 In the 1st place, what is to become of the great bulk of those, a multitude sad to number, who have never been kept upon pay and in light service, but who went out and returned ruined by wounds and disease? How many of them will be unsuccessful for every one who succeeds in obtaining a commission in one of these ten regiments? But a ain, are the most unfortunate to be include at all? An examination is required as to bodily ability. This will have the effect to cause the rejection of the most unfortunate of these men, to exclude those whose bodily disability is the greatest, and whose power to maintain themse ves is the least. The advan tage is to be enjoyed by those who are able in some sort to come up to the militar standard. Therefore, as to the bestowal of the commissions, the plan is to favor the least needy. How as to the men? Does anyone suppose that regiments which are to do nothing but garrison duty need to be kept filled with men? Vli. not at all. Does anyone suppose they will be lled up and kept filled with men wounded heretofore? We know that it would be impossible to keep them filled by such wounded men even if it should be desirable. Why? Here is a regiment to be made up of 500 wounded men. There are 1500 other wounded men who would be glad tohave places in the regiment, but they do not get there, and the occasion passes by. Does anyone suppose that these 1500 men are to stand as tide waiters, watchin for vacancies, that they will fore 0, or cond or should forcgo, other modes O life so as to be ready to enlist? “Each steppin where his comradestood The instant that he fell.” Then how, after the 1st formation of the regiments, is the body to be kept filled with men wounded “in the late war?” The 1st enlistment of privates might answer the description, but the recruitin must be done in other fields. One portion of wounded men are to be taken and the others are to be left to shift for themselves and to become occupied in various ways in life. The relief, then, is merely for those who in the 1st instance form these regi merits.