The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-08-19

lnunify feels concerning the approaching
draft, and all matters connected with it, We
have been at considerable pains to ascertain
the exact state OF afflirs, the prospects, and
the Governmental determination Before the
original lists were sent to Washington they
were carefully examined and checked by the
Enrolling Board; after they were fled In the
office Of Col. Fry, at Washington, a council
Of enrolling officers met and re-examined
them. ln consequence Of the representa-
lions made by Gov. Seymour, they are now
undergoing third examination, with, SO far
as obtained, the result Of approximate per
fcction of detail
II il deemed best by the authorities to
leave certain matters of preparation in the
hands OF the District Provost Marshals, and
one OF those matters is the date at which the
draft shall take place
In two, and possibly ia more Of the city
districts, the draft will he recommended Oh
Nondoy, Tie eth instant
Ample preparations are being made for
the protection OF the force engaged in the
operation, and no interference whatever
will be permitted, as indeed none is an,ici-
pated.
4 very gratifying feature Of the ,aOaas
o,e5a,sW is this: To any draft ed persons who,
for whatever reasons, elect to go themselves
10 the army, fiirlongh Of longer or shorter
time viii be granted for the purpose of the
necessary preparation for departure, the set.
Hing up or arranging business details aud so
Substitutes will be expected to be in inn
mediate readiness for service, and Will, Of
course, expect no furlOugh.
All the lists will probably have undergone
the necessary examination 10y the 24th of the
month, and the probabilities are that by the
lst of September the whole affair will be
over, all the $500 paid in, and the substitutes
.tt,.If t.,
the United States.
The Daily Nsrs, approving an article
in the New York Express, threatening
that the draft shall not take place in New
York, says:
Gov. Seymour has pledged his sacred word
and honor, and the people OF New York trust
in him and believe him, that not one single
drafted citizen shall be forced away from the
State until the constitutonality Of the con-
script act shall have been decided on by our
Courts. He is virtually pledged to do as the
Elp,'esS says: TO call forth the entire mill
tia force of New York, to resist the kidnap-
ping, which Abolitionist hOwlers tell us is
inevitable, and we entertain no doubt that he
will keep his word"
The New York Tribune, commenting
on the article from the Neus, says:
Scy iuUui - it Win Jci DaS IL
and his crew, we have no manner of doubt.
We believe it is susceptible of proof that he
has eulogized the Confederate Constitution
rs decidedly superior to that of the United
States, and that he has expressed strong
desire that New York should adopt that Con
stitntion and thus become part and parcel Of
the man-stealer's Contederacy. But ehe.~
and 'ohen did he "pledge his sacred word and
honor that the enforcement Of the National
Conscription Act shall be postponed 'until
IFS constitutionality shall have been decided
on by our State Courts?" When was the
principle established that an act OF Congress
shall have no practical validity until State
Courts affirm its constitutionaiity? This is
4 new way of settling constitutional ques-
tions-to presume Federal law invalid un-
ill State Courts see fit to approve and affirm
it, On behalf Of the loyal millions of our
State, who do not desire nor design that the
rebellion shall have time afforded it to re-
cover from the stunning blows it has recent
ly received, VIC call for the evidence on which
the NeWs asserts that "GOv. Seymour has
pledged his sacred word and honor" to the
Copperhead rebellion proposed. TO whom
was his pledge made? What were its pre-
else terms!