Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-10-18
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Governor TIP says ouly GJe shOusard ~sss
volunteers are wanted to Hll out Ohlo's quota.
II these are net forthcoming by the 27th inst,
draft will be ordered.
One Hundred Thousand sble-bodied men, as
strong and healthy as any equal number We
have now In the army, voted for JOHN BRoUaH
on the 18th inst, thuN endorsing the negro-free-
Ing aud negro-armlI,g war folIcy OF the Ae-
mlnistratlOn-in all Its length and breadth Its
highth and depth 'N"e '''
II one In twenty Of these hundred thousand
abls.bodied supporters Of JOHN BRoUoH and
free negroism, would volunteer, Governor
TOP would have bis Eve thousand; 0hio's
quota would be full, and our noble Common
wealth be saved from the disgrace Of draft
for go psltry a number, and Its honor, as the
Journal would express II, would "remain un-
sullied.n
Instead OF ore. twentieth, one would suppose
that the whole Hundred Thousand would vol
unteer at once Why just lock ct the condition
of things. There's the army Of the Cumber-
land under RosEoRANs shut up a. Chattanooga,
and unable to move either forward, or back, or
siderAys. And while BRAGG holds that army
there as in a wise, he is sending off, it is said,
reinforeements to LEE.
Then, there ia the army Of the Potomac un-
der MEADE. Kilograms in this paper inform
us that MEADE, unwilling to risk fight with
LEE, who offered battle, had fallen back to Cen
teryille that even sick soldiers had been de-
tailed from the convalescent camps to work on
tho defepsts of Washington, and that it vas
apprehendei LEE was abous attempting another
iavasion of Maryland
Ia this critical state Of affairs where are the
Hundred Thousand sble-bodied Brough fight
ing men7 One would think they would rush
20 the field of glory and honor at once, relieve
Ro.rcaANs, drive BRAee into the Gulf, succor
MEADE and annihilate LIE They vo.ed for
BRouaH because he stood on the Administra-
tion war platform; now let them rally to ice
support in the hour of peril, o. confess them.
selves too coWardly to back up their votes by
their acts
They surely won't whine out-"We'll wait
for draft so that the Copperheads may be
forced to 20 too" That would be ridiculous,
gentlemen, since your organs assure us that the
"Copperheads ore all dead" You surely will
not HaiG fer dead men to be drafted! Besides,
a draft of Eve thousand will not yield hund-
reth part of the men the Administration sorely
needs and must have to carry on the war on the
platform you indcraed BY your votes on the
second Tuesday of tbis month.
Beyond ell this, If you wait for men to be
forced into the field By draft, it will take
months--the Wsr Department, if we mistske
not, has fixed II till the first of January to get
q respectable army into the service. 10 the
meantime, God only knows what will become
of the country, if the war continues to be con-
Quoted on the policy which you have approved,
aud you stand back, waiting for draft! -tt -.
No, gentlemen who voted for BRoUsH, none
of your subterfuges will shelter you from pub.
lie shame and odium, if you hold back at this
critical moment. Every able-bodisd man Of
You ,ahould volunteer at once, and every man
who 10 not physically fit for service. should see
that his con, his brother, or his neighbor who
is ct, 10 off without delay, and If eed be, help
support his family, If he has one, in his sb
seuce
We urge this, because it is your duty; be-
cause you have given a pledge to the State
and country that you would do 1t. You said by
your votes on election dsy to the Administra-
tion-"Go ahead; free all ths nggers; disre.
gard the righls Of Southern men to person or
property; pay no attention to the question of
the existence or non-existence of the rebel
States; but carry on the war vigorously 90 the
radical platform, and we will sustain you; we
will rally en- mdsse to your support"
"NoW's the time" and "noW's the hour,n-
Wake up, Loyal Leagusrs! and see to IL that
In less than ten days not merely FIVE thousand,
but twenty times that number Of volunteers,
have offered their services to "the Govern
ment" You used every art, every device, you
spent time and money, to get votes for BRoUaH;
now see what you can do in getting soldiers for
LINCOLN, who needs them worse than BRouoH
needed votes. Now prove youripatrio.ism by
your works, or stand before the world hated,
condemned and despised as mere tricksters and
towards.