Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1863-09-17
The Wisconsin Draft.

| No official announcement has vet been
I made as to the time of the draft in this State
/ yet 1t Is repeatedly given out both at Mil
| Waukee and at Madison, that the draft will
| actually take place :" in two or three weeks"
1t is better that 1t be fully understood that
in justice to the State, no draft ought to take
place here under the pre- call 1t has
| been demonstrated beyon1 Zee for dis
! pute that Wisconsin has sairesdv furnished
every man necessary to fill its quota under
| the pending draft, Both Ohio and Illinois
have been exempt from CONSUMPTION upon
precisely the same ground pha. We claim ex-
emption for Wisconsin.
| In speech at Springfield, Ohio, on the
| 9th of August, Gov. Tod said the Seere-
tary OF War had fixed Ohio's quota for the
draft at about $4,000. The fact that Ohio
had furnished almost entirely three years men
was laid before the department and credit
was given accordingly" Ohios quota, he
stated was only some 5000.
With single exception, every regiment
sent from this State enlisted for three wears
| Upon the same basis of calculation adopted
tor Chic and Illinois, our excess is between
sixteen and twenty thousand.
The above is from the Milwaukee Ne,cs
1t condenses the false statements which are
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the draft in this State into a small COMPASS.
and is easily refuted
In the first place there is no authoritative
statement that Ohio or Illinois will be ex-
empted from draft If they are, it will be
because they have furnished an excess of
three years men sufficient to meet their quota
under the present demand for men by draft.
Our excess Is not between 10000 and $1,000
under the same basis, nor under any other
reasonable basis of calculation.
| We have obtained from official sources the
following, with regard to the quota of Wis
consin.
The quota this State, previous to the call
of July I'd, 1862, was q, 753. At the Adiu-
tant Generals office, in Washington, we are
credited with "a, 725 men as an offset to the
above, being an excess of 1912 Our quota
under the call of July 3D. 1862, was 1904
We are credited with furnishing Is regiments
and 1870 recruits for old regiments, making
| IA, $50 men, so that down to the call of Aug
ust 9th, 1862, for II ,9O4 nine months men,
we are credited with an excess of 5,29S men,
three years men. Next comes this last
| call, Tor Ii ,9O4 nine months men; and here
we are credited with one regiment (34th) of
99o men, showing deficiency of 1O,946 nine
months men. Upon the basis of the above
|
men) by 4, to reduce it to nine months men.
we have q, 1872; from which deduct the def
| cheney of nine months men, 90, 946l and we
| have an excess of 1O,2 46 nine months men,
| or z, SCI three gears men, which is the actual
excess now credited to the State by the Ad-
jutant General, U. S. A., as furnished to the
| Provost Marshal General. The excess, in all
cases, is calculated by the Department on the
| basis of three years men,
On examining, however, the detailed state
| ment OF this calculation, received from the
Adjutant Generals Office at Washington, it is
found that his figures fail to give this State
credit for considerable number of men be-
| long ring to different organizations. and also
| for the substitutes for drafted men, who went
| into old regiments all amounting to about
| 400 three years men. A full and careful
| statement of this matter is being prepared,
| and will be forwarded to Washington, imme-
diately, and will doubtless be allowed so that
| the final amount of excess to be allowed to
| the State will be about 4,OOOmen.
| Whatever this excess is, it is to be, accord
ing to the system adopted by the Department,
| deducted from the total number of enrolled
men of the LIST class in the State, and one
fifth of the remainder are to be drafted. This,
| according to the best data at hand for calcu-
| lation, would make the number to be drafted
| from this Congressional district about 1900
| OF course, where towns have furnished largely
heretofore they have less of the 1st class
men remaining, and their one-ffth will be
less than that of towns which have not here
| totOre furnished so largely, and have more
| LIST class men remaining SO that, to a GER
| tain extent, towns will after all get credit for
the numbers heretofore sent.
| Governor SALoMoS holds that, instead of
| deducting the excess from the whole of the
lst class enrolment, and drafting one-ffth of
| the remainder, the juster method would be
to first ascertain the one-ffth of that class,
deduct the credit from that number, and draft
the number remaining, and has addressed the
Provost Marshal General to that effect. The
| difference is seen by simple calculation
Say that this Congressional district has 3, 900
men of the lst class enrolled, and an excess
of 800 men. The present plan would result
| thus:
| ,OOO-SOO=l2, 200, divided BY 5. makes
| 2,44O to be drafted. The other method, urged
by the Governor, would result thus:
$4,000 divided by is $500, from which
deduct 500, leaves 1900 to be drafted.
In view Of the letter from the Provost Mar
| shall General to Hon. NJ. CLARKE of Rochester,
recently published, declining to give credit to
t0ons for excess of men heretofore furnished,
thus contradicting the letter to Gov. SALoMoN
| promising to give such credit the Governor
| has addressed the Provost Marshal General,
enQuiring as to what is the final determination
OF the Department, so that the people of
this State may not lose their time and labor
IN looking up their lists of volunteers
| We have no doubt that full Justice will be
| done Wisconsin in this matter as compared
| with other States, and if credit is not allowed
to towns On account of excess of troops here
| tofore furnished, Gov. SALoMoN will at least
have made every effort to secure it, We
think the Neacs and kindred papers who are
making themselves unhappy about this matter
may safely trust the Governor to look after
| the interests of Wisconsin-Stote Journal.
"A Hail the Haunting Lie Sit was Written
| by an Irish Democrat.
From the New York Tribune, August 1o.7
Mr. S. S. Cox, in his Copperhead peregrin-
atoms through Ohio, has habit of quoting
very spirited lyric evoked by the Dissertation
of our national flag to the base uses of the
slave-hunters, beginning, "All hail the
| Haunting lie !" and stating that it was writ
ten by Horace Greeley! The said Greeley
would gladly be able to write so good lyric
| as that, but never, was-verse- writing being
an amusement for which he has a very indif-
| terent aptitude. The excellent stanzas which
Mr. Cox falsely attributes to him were writ
ten by Young Irish Democrat of this CITY,
| then and now member of the Tammany So
ciety, and most ardent and effective CO.
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