New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-09-07
WHO FILL THE RANkSS

The Copperhead journals persist IN the WORK
of dciaming, ridiculing. and discrediting the at
tempt Of the Government to re-enforce the
Union armies by Drafting. Here are specimens
Of their assertions:
/. "Ncw-JerSey, Syracuse, &c, are dong
better by Volunteering than could have been
done by Drafting"
We answer-the Volunteering Dragged OF Is
a direct and palpable result of the Draft HE
efforts instanced to raise Volunteers would never
hayc been made but to avoid the Draft. and moi
one in ten of these Wanted Volunteers would
have been enlisted at all had there been no
Draft
III. "The Drafted do not respond"
We answer Thy do. Some arc legally ex'
empted; Others furnish substitutes; furih'
class pay the $500 for exemption; and this i
once employed to stimulate the Voluntce
that the Copperhcads profess to like so !.
But many of the Drafted respond by persc II
service. Thus the ranks Of the Army are be-
steadily recruited.
III. 1.-THE Drafted men desert
We answer, No; the desortions are nearly al
from among the Volunteers; that is, those who
have freely bargaincd for so much cash down To
serve A. substitutes for drafted men. There Is
large class Of scoundrels who make business
OF enlisting for the bounty, obtaining II. ano
then deserving. Some OF them have done hi'
half a dozen times The Government - no"
shooting few Of the worst of this class Tor OK
amples with salutary results. The DRAFTED
men who present themselves for service rarely
desert.
". Well: at all events, tho ReYs6lsean' do
no, go TO the War"
We meet this assertion by facts that cannot
be- gainsayed. Consider them:
Several States have, through the action OF Re-
publican Legislature. allowed their soldiers IN the
field the RICH, Of Suffrage; and they have voted
accorlingly-,n nery instance g'ring large
Reynbi,oan majority Their votes are all recorded
in the last Tribune almanac, save those cast
this year hy the Wisconsin soldiers, which also
showed large Republican majority.
Now. while the votes Of the soldiers have uni
formly shown large majority on the Repub-
lcan side, The rot,s Of those staying at home hare
,lo,rs a corresponding RsPSbi'ea" toss, proving
that sending soldiers TO the field has diminished
our relative strength at home. And on tho
other hand California and Oregon. which have
sent very few soldiers 10 the War, are more de-
cidedly with us to-day than they were when the
War broke out.
Here is proof from three totally independ-
ont quar,ers-l, from tho vote Of the States
which have filed the ranks Of our armies; =
from that of the States which have NOT filled
them 70 any considerable extent; 3, from the
vote Of the soldiers themselyes-that about
three iourths Of the defenders of the Union We're
drawn from the Republican ranks. How can 1t
be gnnsayedi VIII The World, The Erpre''
and tn, Albany Argn, try their skill upon III
When they have ciphcred through, let them
try their skill on this:
JMs great body Of our soldiers are Pro-S'arery
Democrats, rhy Is it that the Legislators and
Gorenor, Of that party hatitnaiy oppose the at
tempt, a, systematically made BY Republicans ia
attend TO them The Right Of Sntrags'