Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-07-25
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iRrom the New York Herald Of Tuesday.
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The DHAFTS t
The Difficulty BaDssn The State snd Naions
Governments Gsto the Quots--Its effect through
out tie Stats-Position Of Nep York compared
wiA other States on Former Calls-No Noae.
sioen 70 tie Local or State OffsiaIs Of the Tsnt
TO Commence DrGttins-7as Result of the In
csndiayy Articles Of the Radical PSsss-TA.
6Oprnor Aduises the Abandonment Of Ms
Draft and Proposes to FiH the Quots Of III,
State by Enlistmsnts Senator MOygsn's ME.
slon to Washiagton, etc. 7su .-t
Now that order is again restored in this city,
the usual quiet reigns from one end of Manhat.
tan leland to the other, and business has as
sumed it, usual activity, we can review the
action Of the authorities and some Of the in
cendiary operations Of the radicals In the late
disturbances In this city. To do this II Ia
necessary TO turn back to the last quota raised
In this State while Senator Morgan was Gov
efnor.
Last year, when Governor Morgan was raising
the quota If this State-one hundred and twenty
Thousand the Administration, verbally and by
letter, edged Governor Morgan that II apy
county h&de up more than its quota it would be
credited and allowed on the next call or draft
Under that pledge, made by the Admlnistrs stiop,
Governor Morgan notified the committees who
were engaged In each Senatorial District 10 OBJ
tain all the men they oould-not to stop with
their quota--and that all over would be credited
to them on the next call. The leading men In
each county put their shoulders to the wheel,
raised money to increase the bouuties, and in
many localities raised more than their quota.
But IL SCENE that the Administration did not
keep ita pledge In that any better than II has
10 many other things.
During the late disturbances q number of
leading Republicans were here to see Senator
Morgan and ascertain the reason for the yio-
latioo Of the pledge. They openly stated that
trouble existed among the Republicans as we'll
as the Democrats, and that they, having taken
q prominent part In the enlistments last year.
were placed In position TO deceive the people.
and were therefore powerless to do ANYTHING to
quiet the trouble If IL should commence In their
localities, as was threatened. We saw promi-
nent men of the Republican party from almost
every important point In the State In this city.
Senator Morgan could only cay that they were
In the same boat with him, that the pledge was
made, and that he, with the corporation of
Governor Seymour and General Sprsgue, had
done ell In their power 10 get the Administration
to carry out their pledge. Washington officials
kept promising, but all had ended In promises,
and has also stood In the false position of at.
tempting to deceive the people, and he did not
wonder much at the tumult that existed through
out the State.
It appears that this is not the only trouble
that Senator Morgan has had with the blunder-
heads and incompetent officials who have charge
of the War Department at Washington. Near
the close of Governor Morgan's term of the
Office General Halleck kept oomplai ling that
he (Morgan) was slow In sending on bis troops,
stating that he was away behind. II will be re.
membered, also, that statements that this State
was behind hand were hsrped upon by the fadi.
cal press In New England and other States, With
the evident design 20 prove that, while other
States had filed their quota, conservative
New York was delinquent, AZ soon o. Gov
ernor Morgan was relieved of his duty et AL
bany he visited Washington to ascertain the
trouble. On arriving there General Hslleok
again accused him Of being behind hand. Gov.
ernor Morgan, on the other hand. was confident
that the quota Of the State was filled, and call.
ed for General Halleck's list of those regiments
that had arrived. General Hslleck, with
pompous assurance that he was correct, handed
out the list and said, "See for YOURSELF" Gov
ernor Morgan, carefully running over the lIst,
and noticing the numbers and names OF colo
nels, Immediately replied, "There are some
fifteen regiments which have been officially
Informed have arrived at their destination that
are not down on that list" General Halleck
insisted that bis list was correct and that Gov.
ernor Morgan was In error, when the latter
gave him the numbers Of the regiments, names
OF the colonels and the date of their departure
from the State. General Halleck still insisted
that the regiments had not reported, and the
question arose-Where are those regimentsi
Governor Morgan suggested that they might
be In General Wool's Departments, In Mary.
land. A dispatch was forthwith sent to Gen.
Wool, and the loat regimentF were found.
They were there and had been for some time.
General Halleck had nothing further to say
about the tardiness Of New York or the failure
to AL the quota. '
This did not end the difficulty between the
State and National authorities In regard TO the
position Of this and other States. Il was found,
by reference to the books at Washington, that
while the troops sent on from this State under
the calls Of last year were three years. men,
there was considerable proportion Of those
furnished BY Massachusetts and come Of the
other States only nine months men. Although
the call was for three years. men, yet these
States had received the credit for the nine
months' men Just the same % this State for the
three yesrs' men. Governor Seymour dispatch
cd Adjutant.G General Sprague 90 Washington,
who, with the assistance Of Senator Morgan,
succeeded In settling this question, having the
State credited according 70 the term Of the
men. But they were unable to ascertain wheth-
or this State was then ahead of ell others In
Its quota Of troops or behind, although every
effort was made to do 90, In order to tell wheth.
or the next draft, II one was to take place,
would fall heavier, In proportion, or lighter on
this State than others.
This question out Of the way, Governor Sey.
mour, through the assistance Of Senator Nor
gan, then endeavored to arrange the quotas OF
the different counties. Adjutsnt. General
Sprsgue was dispatched to Washington two or
three times on that mission. The object was
20 get those troops raised last year credited 10
the localities Of their eulistments, and where Q
district or county had sent more than its quota,
10 have ID credited on their quota under The
next draft. But, with all the lntercessions and
labors Of Senator Morgan and General sprague,i
II has never been arranged, although numerous
promises have been made by Washington OIL
cials that they would attend to Il; but they
have not. As one prominent Republican from
the interior Of the State remarked, they seem-
ed to sleep for month or two at time, then
woke up Impressed with the idea that they
must do something, and forthwith started of
xvikh a anaamOdi0 effork eo1ardIeaa 0f IN a cnr,-