Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1862-12-27
TIL Z DRAFT.

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THE DRAFT.
The idea of Gov klRKwooD of requir.
ing all our Regiments to be kept .ul! by
draft, is simply ridiculous and absurd. At
the rate our troops have fallen in the field
i would require in three years every man.
woman and child in the State to keep up
The complement; besides moments con
siiera,ion will show the manifest ineqaul.
ity and justice of the requisi,ion When
I,wa bad but Is Regiments in the field,
and had met all calls for her quota of troops
it required over 5000 additional men to
make good losses, while in Wisconsin.
Maine aud Pennsylvania, only 5000 we're
required to fill up their 40 to As Regi
men:s. The reason for this is obvious,
our troops have he.n placed in the van Of
the fight; wherever work was to be done
our forces were in requis,'on, they have
always taken the position assigned to them
with aiacrity, and they have always main.
tanned it while man remained to bear
their standard Whole Regiments have
been nearly annhilated, and now the re-
ward of their valor is an imperative call
for more men to Ell up the places of our
lamented dead, even though it requires a
larger number than the aggregate turn-
ished 10y some of the largest States in the
Cuion. La the organization Of new Regi
imeuts every village and township has
been visited and revisited, all tina, argu
ment, persuasion, and money could inhu'
ence have been induced to volunteer, so
that in many parts of the Stale females
are already compelled to harvest the crops.
to supply their families with wood and
other common necessaries OF lille, and with
all these facts before hun the Governor,
instead Of presenting them to the proper
authorities and demanding that we have
Justice, pertluaclousiy insists that there
shat. be draft We venture the pred,c
ton Ina, there will be no draft unless
recommended aud insisted upon by the
Governor, and that if there is one he alone
viii he responsible for it. Iowa has al.
ways been ready to furnish Voluntarily all
the men that can De spared consistently
with II due regard to the maintenance ana
comfort of dependant families At home
bat our readers may hn0" that tnpS- are
not mere parti1an sentiments We puuhsh
the following from the CAT City, at keo,
kuk, an unqueationed Rrpaboican organ:
" 1t is further well known that Iowa
has furnish, 4 several thousand mea more
than have been demanded by the War
ID -tarImeut for new reg!meUts-ih is to
say more than her quota. These several
thousand volunteers the Governor has
organized into new regiments. 1t is gen
orally understood that our Governor and
our Senators and Representatives,, have
allowed themselves to be used by every
ambitious would be Colonel in soliciting
lie War Department to allow these mill
tary genluses 10 raise new regiments until
the Stale has been utterly exhausted, her
resources impaired, and her industry at.
tected.
" Thousands of dollars have been lost
by the farming community in almost every
county from the want Of l9borers to take
care of The crops. Notwithstanding all
this, the Governor seems to take sort of
delight in the contemplation Of draft in
Iowa which will further exhaust her ye>
sources, and bring reproach upon her
4 L L
Department to permit him TO indulge in
tins luxury. We hardly know what Messrs
Grimes, Haitian and Wilson, may think of
such a proceeding, whether they regard it
quite just, We might say less than ou'ra
g-Ous, Or not. The Interests and me honor
Of other States have been looked after
and protected by their drputed guardians,
furnished anywhere near the same proper
ton of troops that Iowa has 10 her popu.
lttion and ia some of them nine months
volunteers have been received II there
i. to be draft, let it be fair, and give
every SAFE an equal showing. Anything
less than his is simple outrage upon our
rights ~ State, which i: is hoped our
representatives in Congress will resent il
our Governor does not.
Again, there are several skeleton reg
iments from Iowa in the field which are
composed principally OF officer, drawing
large pay. Why not consolidate these
regiments and appoint mertorous officers
Of their number To vac ncies in other reg
imen,s? Thus the regiments could be
filed up, the expense greatly lessened in
proportion to the eff ctiue force, and the
State be saved The disgrace and injustice
of draft.
1T is true such a course might no,
seem as polite to IL po'it clan VINO should
have power to MAXI officers, if not TO un.
make them. Holding over State Senators
and probably will be members of the
House have friends, and they must b.
looked after by the powers tina, be and
expect to be.
But The people see through all this,
and despise it from the bottom of their
hearts, and all parties will unite in heap.
ing odium upon any man, or set of men.
who care more for themselves than the
State, and who would not raise hand
to protect her honor and avert Der ruin