The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-05-02

and essential fabrics could be pro6ured .
home. The elegant and luxurious PRODUCES
Of foreign looms would be the only depri-
yation; and should the exigency 1vee occur
1t would we'll be borne by the people with
out serious Inconvenience, and, perhaps.
with an Improvement in the morale of the
nation.
z Such 10 brief and meager outline OF tho
States. Would that it were equailed by
their moral condition. Would that the
question to use the superabundant means
theoretically, vigorously, and without ces-
sation. until the rebellion be crushed out.
were as universal and unexceptional as the
existence OF the means. There would, then,
soon be an end Of the rebellion. and blessed
peace would again smile over the land
That this is no idle, random statement.
made without due reflection, nor the inter-
ance of a wild enthusiasm, will be clearly
shown by the most cursory examination Of
the material condition Of the rebellious
States
Without any regular foreign trade. their
only communication abroad being by the
precarious agency of blockade runners:
without domestic manufactures at all
commensurate with their wants; with their
armies on half rations of the limited arti-
cies supplied to them; with the people
clamoring for bread, and taking it by
armed mobs, led by women; and with
large and well appointed armies and ma
yles pressing them on all sides, disturbing
their peculiar system of labor and render
ing exceedingly doubtful the yield of the
coming harvest, the prospect Of the rebel
hous States, If the war be only vigorously
prosecuted, is cheerless, hopeless, indeed.
me me genius .h Of gaunt famine stands threat
enlng them with starvation. The people,
frenzled by hunger and driven to sdespera-
ton by the deliberate ferocity with which
their pseudo Government strips them of
their substance to feed the soldiers, will
soon rise in open, armed resistance to the
false leaders who have deluded them into
treason and rebellion. The first mutterings
of this great coming storm are clearly dis
cernable in the late bread riots in various
parts of the Confederacy, headed by wo-
men. History affords but one parallel to
such scenes. The French revolution, near
the close of the last century, witnessed
similar outbursts and like feminine fe-
roclty when urged on by starvation and
despair.
Is 1T not rational to expect that similar
scenes, from similar causes, will be enacted
in other parts of the Confederacy? And az
the women who take part in such riots are
the wives, mothers and sisters of the SOL
will rise in force to hurl the leaders of Sc
cession, rebellion and treason from their
seats of authority. 1t cannot be otherwise
with soldiers who have left families and
friends at home. They can never consent
to be fed on the bread derived by starving
their kinfolk and friends. 1t is more than
human nature can bear Then, let the peo-
pie of the loyal States be resolved, be
ready to spend the last guinea and the last
man to suppress the rebellion; let them in
augurate a system which will utilize their
patriotic resolve, and the day will not be
distant when the goal will be reached for
which all patriots are now watching and
praying so ardently, the restoration of the
Union and the assertion over the whole
land of the paramount authority Of the
Constitution Of the United States. Cfncin-
natl Commercial.
WHEN WILL THE DRAFT BE ENFORCED.
1t seems to have been contemplated by
the trainers Of the Consumption Act of the
late Congress, that it would not be possible
to arrange all the details for putting it in
operation before the first Of July next. The
10th section of the act provides that the
general enrolment of the militia for the
purpose of drafting, "shall only embrace
those whose ages shall be, on the LIST day of
July thereafter, between twenty and forty
five years" And the 18th section provides
that Cali persons thus enrolled, shall be
subject for taoo gears after the first Of July
| succeeding the enrolment, to be called into
the military service of the United States,
and to continue in service for three years
or during the war; 1t seems, from this
reading, that persons liable to military
duty under the Conscription Act can not
be called into the service previous to FIRST
of July"
1t appears from the Washington corres-
pondence of an evening cotemporary, that
this clause in the eleventh section of the act
is considered by some an inadvertance, and
a very unfortunate one, as causing an I'M
necessary delay in the raising of troops by
CONSUMPTION. But the fixing of the 1st of
July for the beginning of liability to do mil
itary service was not an oversight. It was
matter of deliberate calculation, as the
tenth section of the act clearly proves for
that section fixes the 1st of July as the date
from which the years Of age are to be reck-
oned that begin and limit the period of liza
bility to military service. It is evident
from sections ten and eleven, that the law
makers meant to date the beginning Of
conscript service from July LIST.
1t is not at all clear to us that any need.
less delay in raising troops by draft will
occur from the provision Of the Conscript
Act in question. 1t is an enormous labor
to enroll the militia of great nation. It
can not be done in one month, nor in two.
It is a month and a half since the act was
passed, and yet the War Department
has not been able to fix upon suitable
States. The District Provost Marshals and
Enrolling Boards are not yet appointed,
| though we learn that the list is nearly COM
plete, and will be announced in few days.
It will certainly require longer time for
the Board of Enrallment in every district
| to number the people subject to military
duty than has been consumed in their own
selection and appointment. Our expert
ence in this city, last fall, where an enroll
ment commenced in September was not
completed till late in November, teaches us
what cumbrous and dragging work it is.
If the Enrolling Boards are appointed, or
ganized, and ready to begin their duties by
the LIST OF May, it will be as much as we ex-
pect Give them only six weeks for the
completion of their herculean labors, and
we shall have the lists prepared for draft
ing not before the middle of June. Sup
pose the draft to take place instantly, the
acts allows the drafted men ten days be-
fore they are required to report for duty
In this time they may procure substitutes,
or close up their business and prepare to
take the field 1t thus appears that, under