New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-08-13

WATERBURY, REPORT.


ment of the fairness of the Enrolment in our
State for the approaching National Draft. We
beg every reader interested in the stability OF
our Government to scan this document closely,
and note how clearly its facts refute its slam
derous assertions and its shameful insinuatons.
very few ncontrovertible statements will
neutralize all its malignant partisanship aud
traitOrous venom:
/. Judge Waterbury cannot face down the
records of our States Adjutant-Generars Office.
showing that, during the last half of 1862, the
City, being called on for 25, 100 men as her quota
of the 10000 required from our State, ac.
tually furnished but 6,637; leaving deficiency
of IS, 523, or nearly three. fourths of the entire
number required while the re'idue of the
State, being drawn upon for 9i,s35 men, ac-
tually furnished s., $50, or only 9,446 less than
the number required That is TO say; the
City furnished one:tourtA Of her quota and
the rest Of the State eight-ninths, and the
small deficiency was mainly in the counties
and townships that went strongly for Seymour.
The necessary consequence that the Republican
counties, which raised their full share of Six
Hundred thousand Men in the latter half Of
last year, should have fewer men to enroll now
than that which then raised less than Seven
out Of Twenty-i five thousand required Of her,
will be obvious TO every intelligent mind.
Observe: We are not urging that the City
should now make up her deficiency on the
great call--tbat is not required Of her: We
only say that the section which keeps lie men
at home when all others pour them out SO
lavishly will necessarily have moro to come
upon at the next Draft.
III. Judge Waterbury parades the large
proportionate number which our City had sent
prior to July I'd, 1862, but is careful not TO
show for what time they were sent, nor how
many OF them remain in the service. We
know very well that these early Volunteers
from our City were in large measure Volun-
teers for three months or other short terms.
and are long since out OF the service; while
Thousands Of them came to our City expressly
to get into it. The Sckles Brigade, the Mozart
Regiment, SCOTS Nine Hundred, &C., &C.,
were largely made up of strangers to our City.
1t is just as notorious here that our City has
now comparatively few men in tho National
armies as that Vicksburg il restored to the
Union; yet Waterbury does his utmost to OBJ
scure it. Now New-York stands high on the
roll OF States as thus far ahead Of her quota;
not because she has sent as many men in pro-
portion some others, but because she has
sent 80 many under the great call OF loG2 for
three years aud 40 few for nine months only.
She is credited for every three years regiment
as equal to four enlisted for nine months only;
and that is right. But Waterbury carefully
ignores this righteous distinction in aboring ~
show that the City has done her part, and
more than her part, in the past.
III. Having, at great expense of time and
trouble, made out an inculpation of the En-
rollment as unfair and partisan, Dir. Water
bury proceeds 10 confess that, under the regu.
ations of the President and Provost Marsbal
General (whose anxiety TO remove every
ground Of just complaint he is compelled to
admit) these alleged errors in the Enrolment
can do no person and no section The least praeti.
cal injustice. His charge is that many persons
are enrolled who ought not to be. and many
who ought to be are enrolled more than once
first at their residence, next at their place
of business, and perhaps again at some place
where temporarily stopping. But as no man
is 10 stand tie draft any~here but ~hers he
actually resides, and no one is to be draWn in
the place Of one pho ought not to hare been en-
rolled, this makes not the smallest difference
in practice. For instance: we will suppose
that in one Ward or County no one is enrolled
but those liable Out for tho special cxemp-
tons Of the act) to serve; while in another
Ward or County every man, woman and child,
is enrolled and subjected to the chances of
the revolving wheel. Very good. Every woman,
child, old man, nonresident aud alien whose
name may be drawn is exempted as nowise
liable, but none others are drapn in their stead.
The fifty per cent added TO the one-ffth called
for is to cover exemptions under the act, and
for no other purpose whatever. Whether,
then, there be ten thousand names or forty
thousand enrolled in your District makes no
odds: if male resident within tho specified
ages, your chance TO be drafted is in either
case one in five, with fifty per cent. added to
cover special exemptions. making your real
liability to be drafted q little less than one
chance in three. Whether . man lives in
city or q rural District-0ne that 10 over.