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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 65, 30 March 1868, Page 79

Command of Volunteer Corps.— The Examiner, in a recent leader on the “ Command of Volunteer Corps,” says :—We do not desire that the organization of Volunteer corps should be assimilated to that of the regular army, and individual intelligence merged in the docility of the mass ; they should be men, not maohines $ but a. ' good Volunteer should yield to the word of command that intelligent obedience with which a good citizen submits to the law* Such obedience can only be founded on respect for authority; and for this reason, if no other, something different from social position or personal favor should form the qualification for command. In the regular- - army we have seen lions led by asses. It, will be the fault of the Volunteers them- „ , selves if the precedent he admitted in their ranks, where obedience and submission to superior - authority ..should be not an instinct carefully, fostered by the drill-ser-geant, but a tribute voluntarily paid to superior oapacitv, and where every man placed in authority should be able to justify.. his claim to A command nis fellows*