The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-04-07

of the United States, the heads of the va
rious Executive Departments of the Gov
eminent, and the Governors of the va
rious States; second, the only son liable
to military duty of widow dependent
upon his labor for support; third, the
only son of aged or inhrm parent or pa
rents dependent on his labor for sup
port; fourth, where there are two or
more sons of aged or in6rm parents sub
iect to draft, the father, or if he be dead,
the mother, may elect which son shall be
exempt; fifth, the only brother of child
rem not twelve years old, having neither
father nor mother, dependent upon his
labor for support; sixth, the father of
4 motherless children under twelve years
of age, dependent upon his labor for sup
port; seventh, where there are a father
and sons in the same family and house
hold, and two of them are in the military
service of the United States as non-com-
missioned officers, musicians, Or privates,
the residue of such family and house
hold, not exceeding two, shall be exempt;
eighth, young men between the ages OF
eighteen and twenty are exempt, for the
reason that experience proves that SOL
dlerS under twenty years can not sustain
the burdens of camp life as we'll as men
between the ages of twenty and thirty
FIVE
These, Sir, are the exemptions of the
Conscription Act. $50 called) in favor of
the poor, upon whose daily toll the aged,
the infrm, and the helpless depend. Is
az tcdking infamous distinctions betlceen
III nj L., IL, h
sons Of poor acidolcs, and to compel Mem
bers Of Congress to tight, procure substi-
5 tuteS, or pay for substitutes? Is it max
f ing infamous distinctions bettceen the
| rich and the poor to exempt the only
: sons Of aged or fnJfrm parents depend
S ent on them for bread, and compel Gus
ton'-house officers to fight. procure sub
stitutes, or pay for Substitutes? Is at
: making infamous distinctions betceen
/ the rich aud the poor TO exempt the only
e brothers Of .tatherIess and mothertess
/ little brothers and sisters dependent
y upon their daily toll for support, and
S compel postmasters and Government
clerks to fight, procure substitutes, or
pay for Substitutes? Is at making IN
famous distinctions 5et,ceen the rich and
The poor to exempt the .fathers o mother
less infant children dependent upon their
daily toll for sustenaace, and to compel
State Judges justices Of the peace cler-
: gymen, and college professors to fight,
4 procure substitutes, or pay for Su6Sti-
tutes?
This law, which thus discriminates in
: favor of the poor, is denounced and ac-
cursed by Mozart Hail. Shame on Mo-
s Fart Hall! Shame on the men who mis-
o represent the beneficent provisions OF an
act passed to uphold the cause of our i'm
periled country.
SUBSTITUTES
e The 18th section of this CONSUMPTION
act provides that any person drafted and
+ notified to appear as aforesaid, mae, on
or before the day fixed for his appear
II ance, furnish an acceptable substitute to
g take his place in the draft; or he NAV
o pay to such person as the Secretary of
d War may authorize to receive it, such
J sum, not exceeding three hundred dol
lars, as the Secretary may determine, for
the procuration of such substitute, which
: sum shall be fixed at a uniform rate by a
general order made at the time Of order
ing draft for any State or Territory.
l go ~ ,.s5- pace In the draft.
:. at any price for which be can procure
= one. Every drafted man is at liberty to
furnish a substitute at such rate as he
D may agree to pay the substitute; or any
drafted man may pay such sum, not ex-
ceeding three hundred dollars, as the
Secretary of War may determine, to pro-
cure substitute.
, The sum determined upon by the Sec
/ rotary can not exceed three hundred dol
> lars; 1t may be ten, fifty one hundred.
= two hundred dollars, or any sum within
the limits of three hundred dollars. This
provision of allowing sum not to ex-
coed three hundred dollars to be paid to
the Government to procure sui stitutes
was put into the law, FIR the sole and
single purpose Of keeping dorm the price
Of substitutes so that men Of re1y mod
crate means and poor men could more
readiiy obtain substitutes. This provis
lon enables the Secretary to fix the sum
which will be the price of substitutes.
Without this provision 1t UdS 6eIiered
that the price for substitutes rould coup
at once 10 one thousand or tlC6 thousand
dollars, so that none but rich men cOu'd
obtain them. If any drafted man can
obtain substitute for a sum less than
that determined by the Secretary, he is
at liberty to do SO. This authority con
terred upon the Secretary to fix sum
from one dollar to three hundred dollars
was purDosely given to check specula-
tons, to keep down the price of substiti-
tues and it must inevitably do so. Thus
partisan malignity, in its blindness and
madness, perverts a measure framed
solely in the interest of drafted men of
modern means and of drafted poor men
into distinction in favor of the rich and
against the poor.
Bag The agency of the Cincinnati
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James IL. Cochran, of the Post ONCE