Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-10-13
VOTE TO-DAY FOR BR0UeH
AND THE UNION.
no rsu Want Anolber Draft {

10 " 4nl 1A1AuNN
The feelings Of the poorer classes have
been wrought upon by the fear of draft
which should require them to go into the
ranks OF exert themselves TO procure the
amount necessary for exemption. Ohio's
quota of soldiers under the last conscrip-
ton was SO nearly flied by previous en-
listments, that no draft is probable for
this State. But the question Of another
and additional draft is one in which all
citizens of the statesre interested.
This question. we venture to say, will
be decided by the people of the State to
day at the polls. For upon the election
or defeat Of VAllandigham rests the answer
to the other question of the draft. The
reason of this is evident. A Copperhcad
triumph IN the North would inspire the
hopes and the energies of the rebels.
They would rightly reason that if their
friends at the North we're strong enough
to elect a Governor in State Of such vast
resources and population as Ohio, it would
not be long before revolution would be
in progress here, in direct cooperation
with themselves. Elsewhere we show
that Vallandigham told rebel officers that
he was the friend of the South and that he
was "hoping and praying for the uld-
mate triumph of the rebel cause" His
election would be al endorsement Of these
sentiments by the people Of Ohio and
consequent invitation to The rebels to come
up and occupy cur State, where they
would find US ready to join them. The
reasoning from these premises is we'll set
forth in letter written by an officer of
the regular army to a friend in Harris
burg, and published in the Buffalo Ex-
press. He says; aIf the result of the
election in Ohio and Pennsylvania should
be adverse to the National Administra-
ton; that is, If the political opponents of
Lincoln succeed in throwing the in
huenee Of Ohio and Pennsylvania against
the National Government, the war must
either be given up as hopeless, or another
draft must Immediately be resOrted to, by
whica our forces in the field may be
doubled" This conviction the writer has
based upon substantial facts. Thousands
Of people in the South, he remarks, i" who
we're at first impetuous in their haste for
the precipitation of rebellion, are now con-
WINGED that the struggle for separate
southern government ia hopeless. They
are satisfied that the South, alone, cannot
cope with the Government, and unless the
Confederacy secure speedy assistance,
either from England, France, or the Dem
ocratic party of the Free States, the Davis
government must collapse" But France
and England, while they would both
promptly lend assistance to the COnfeder-
acy so soon as 1t proved able TO achieve
success for itself, will neither of them
venture to espouse its eause while it lacks
that prospect of success. Hence the reb-
els have on;y to look for hope to the Cop
perhead Democracy of the North. That
Democracy succeeding in the Northern
elections, the rebels will construe its sue
cess as evidence of the unpOpularity Of the
efforts making by the Government 10 pre-
serve the Union. When such q a result
becomes known at the South" continues
the writer, thousands Of Union men
will have no choice as to what to do. They
will be compel. d to join the rebel ranks
by the force of circumstances. Every
rebel army will thus be s~elled up TO
twice its present number. And what will
the National authorities be compelled to
do, confronted by such state Of affairs
They will either be forced to abdicate in
favor Of JEFF. Davis and his associates in
crime, or they will be compelled to resort
to another draft. The positions as here
state them are well understood at the
South. Would to God that they were as
we'll understood and appreciated at the
North"