The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1863-08-11

suos VIC ouminiotrdlOn ''b6u formed ltsoii intV
a'committee to regulate the next Presidential
election" AS Wendell Phillips is the direct
agent between Satan and tie satanic party at
Washington, he ia likely to be very we'll In
formed in regard to this matter, and his state
ment is doubtless quite true. Indeed, we find
q new proof Of its accuracy In the important
correspondence which we published yesterday
in regard to the enforcement Of the draft. We
hope that none Of our readers have omitted to
carefully peruse Governor seymours letter to
the President and the Presidents reply. The
facts with which Governor Seymour supports
his request that the draft shall be postponed
until some of the objections to 1t are removed
are certainly startling. Mr.. Lincoln's reply to
these facts is, we regret to say, exceedingly
curt and discourteous, as we'll as alto
gether weak and illogical. If President
Lincoln has permitted himself to be de-
luded by the radical rawlings about Governor
Seymour's treason" and Governor Seymour's
"complicity with the riots" we strongly advise
him to rid himself of all such foul stuff before
again addressing the Executive of this great
State Such folly may do for the editorials Of
the Tribune; but it is most sadly out of place
in letter from the President
By bis celebrated and accurate remark that
the emancipation proclamation was "Pope's
bull against the comet" Mr.. Lincoln establish
ed reputation for definitions equal to that Of
johnson or Webster. II his present letter tho
President sustains that reputation by saying
that the Conscription act is like "butcher
driving bullocks into slaughter PEN" It's
true that the President speaks Of JEFF. Davis
conscription; but the definition will apply
quite as well to our own. The only difference
between the two systems is that JEFF Davis
takes all his "bullocks" and we choose our "bul-
locks" by lottery. This brings us to one Of the
arguments urged by Mr.. Lincoln for the imme-
date enforcement the draft--viz: that because
JEFF. Davis has conscripted we must conscript.
This new golden rule of the radicals, that 'what-
soevcr the rebels do we must do ALSO" is almost
too absurd for comment, although it has often
been put in practice by them in regard to negro
enlistments, confscation acts, retaiatory mea-
sures and other very doubtful proceedings
But, if JEFF Davis recent CONSUMPTION requires
our draft to meet it, why did not his former
conscriptions require drafts at the North to
meet them? Or, to put the same idea in another
form, If volunteering was sufficient to enable us
to meet jeff. Davis two other conscriptions,
why is not volunteering sufficient to meet this?
This point President Lincoln does not explain,
and cannot explain Tho facts and the figures
are oil decidedly against him. .rt /,
But, at Che beginning Of his letter, Mr. Lin.
coin says that he cannot resort to volunteering
instead of drafting because atime is too import
ant" II 10 great pity that this consideration
did not occur to him six months ago. The
Conscription act was passed in March last
If slime" was SO important why was not the
draft enforced Immediately! Or, If ''time" was
not so important then, but was to be important
in August, why was not volunteering encouraged
during tho interval? AT that period two
hundred men per day were volunteering
in this city alone. The tinkering and
diddling about the draft stopped these
enlistments. Had they been allowed to 90
on all of our quota would now be in the field.
The President has never osiied upon us for
volunteers and been refused. On the contrary
the satanic advisers of the President refused
volunteers last year, upon Wilson's statement
that our army was too large, and the satanic
advisers of the President have been stopping
enlistments since March last by their attempt to
rival JEFF. Davis in "driving bullocks into the
slaughter pen" Let President Lincoln explain
If he can, this Encouragement in the past. Let
h:,s ~los,, hNxv q. lh.t
sorely now, when the captures Of Vicksburg
and Port Hudson have just given us the use Of
one hundred and fifty thousand veterans, while
we did not need men three months ago, when
Grants army was actively employed on the
Mississippi. We can tell the President that,
even now, volunteering will fill up our armies
quicker and with better men than any conscrip-
ton act, and he has only to compare the re-
suits Of the draft in other States up to this
time with the results Of the volunteering In
New Jersey and in this city during the past
week to see the proofs Of our assertion.
Having thus shown the fallacy Of the Pre-
sidents logic In regard to JEFF. Davis example,
in regard to the failure of volunteering and in
regard to the question Of time, we do not pro-
pose to waste words in commenting upon the
gross irregularities of the enrolment and Of
the proportion Of che draft to the population in
the districts Of this State. The facts are too
plain to require comment. Figures, which
cannot lie. speak louder than mere words. 1t
Is clear that the republican districts are favored
and the democratic districts forced to bear q
double share Of the burden. President Lincoln
does not deny this but attempts to dodge It
but vainly. If such infamous
favoritisms werc intentional, and part of the
plan Of the administration ito regulate the next
elections" the scheme has miserably failed If
and the result Of mere accident,
such errors ought 10 be all corrected before
draft Is even talked about. But during the