SANITARY COMMISSION.
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         Office  of the Sanitary Commission,
                  Treasury Build in;/,  Washington, July 29, 1861,
  At a meeting of the Commission, held this day, the  following reso-
lutions were passed unanimously, and  ordered to be printed.
                           FRED. LAW OLMSTED, Res. See.
Resolutions pasted by Sanitary Committee in Session, Monday, July 29,
  and ordered to be  sent to the President, Heads of the Departments,
  and to both Houses of Congress.

  Rrsolred, That the Sanitary Commission, in their eudeavors to pro-
mote temperance, cleanliness, and comfort among the troops, have be-
come convinced that the first sanitary law in camp and among  soldiers
is military discipline ; and  that  unless this is vigorously asserted and
enforced, it is useless to attempt  and impossible to  effect, by any sec-
ondary means, the groat end  they propose—which is the  health and
happiness of the army.
  Resolved, That looking only to the health and comfort of the troops,
it is our  profound  conviction that any special  relaxation of military
discipline in  favor of volunteer  troops, based  cither upon their sup
posed unwillingness or inability  to endure it, or upon  the  alleged ex-
pectation of the public, is a fallacious policy, and fraught with  peril to
the lives  of the men and the success of the national cause; and that,
speaking in the name of the families and the communities from which
the volunteers come, and in  the  name  of humanity and religion, we
implore that the  most thorough system of military discipline be earned
out with  the  officers  and men of the volunteer  force, as the first and
essential  condition  of their health, comfort, and morality.
  Resolved, That  the  health and comfort and efficiency of the men is
mainly dependent on the uninterrupted presence, the personal watch-
fulness, aud the rigid authority of the regimental and company officers ; 
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and that all the  great  delects, whether iu  the  commissariat or in the
police of camps,  are radically due to the  absence of officers  from their
posts and to the laxity of the discipline  to which they are themselves
accustomed—a laxity which would never be tolerated among regulars,
and which, while tolerated among  our soldiers, will  make our force a
crowd of armed  men rather than an army.
   Resolved, That it is the public  conviction of this Commission, that
the soldiers  themselves,  in their  painful experience of the  icant of
leaders arid protectors, would heartily welcome a rigid discipline exerted
over their officers and themselves ;  that the public would hail  with joy
the inauguration of a decisive, prompt, and rigid rule, extending alike
to officers and men ; and that  any despondency or  doubt connected
with our military and  national prospects, or  with the health and secu-
rity of our troops, would disappear with the first indications of rigid
order enforced with impartial authority throughout the whole army.
   Resolved,  That  the  Sanitary Commission  assure Major  General
McClellan in advance, of all the moral support and sympathy of their
numerous  constituents, and beg him  to believe that the  humane, the
intelligent, the religious, the  patriotic, will uphold his hands in every
endeavor to communicate a spirit of  subordination, fidelity, and obe-
dience to the troops, even by resort, if found necessary, to the utmost
rigor of military law, believing that the  health, comfort, and efficiency
of the army are  all united  in their dependence  on  a strict,  uniform,
and all-pervading military discipline