New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-08-11
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ordeal. Military service is no more "compul-
sorry" and not necessarily more disagreeable,
than the payment of Taxes. Here, for exam
pie, are Messrs. c. Vanderbilt, a. I. Stewart
and William b. Astor, after paying heavy taxes
on all they possess or consume, required to
hand over something like 500, 900 each as In
como Tax. To say that the payment of such
taxes shall await final adjudication Of the
power to impose them is to deprive the Gov
ernment of the means to meet the fearful
drafts made by the war on its pecunary re-
sources; for the ability to borrow rests on the
provision made to pay interest by taxation.
Yet no taxpayer within our knOwledge-cer-
tainly no loyM tax-payer-has demanded any
such postponement
Every paragraph of the Governors letter is
surcharged with covert hostility to the Ma
tional cause. Its exaggerations of the perils
and hardships of Military service are cal
culated to discourage that Try Volunteering
whercon he affects to rely. It's assertions that
our City aud Brooklyn have hitherto fur
nshed their full proportions Of the numbers
required, are grossly untrue. They did not
furnish half the numbers required Of them last
year. as the returns in the hands of Gov. Sey-
mour's Adjutant will show. They were short not
less than Ten Thousand Men. But il is grossly
unus. to credit the thousands who from ever
quarter seek this port to enter the Naval ser
vice of the Union to this City and Brooklyn.
II would be lust as fair to credit them all to
the First Ward Of our City and the Fourth
Ward Of Brooklyn, because they generally ship
from the one or the other.
But we cannot follow the Governor through
all lis coils and bubbles. We will conclude
with that one which has misled the President.
Gov. 8. picks out five New-iork and Brooklyn
Districts which aro called on for large num-
bers. and contrasts them with seven rural Dis
tricts, carefully picked from the whole interior,
10 prove that the requirement from this end
of the State is excessive Mr.. Lincoln re-
sponds:
Assuming the, ne dr,e'' oqs1I 70 d-'f.r N
tnie TplGn" this disparity 10 such % to require alter
ton"
and proceeds TO reduce the drait from these
City Districts accordingly. But the Districts
are not "equal in entire population" as ho
should have seen The five City Districts cited by
Gov. Seymour have al aggregate population OF
with them average but 126, ii5-an eyeragc
excess Of l., 1893 in the City Districts, of which
the President takes no account. Then there
is always very large influx TO cities Ike
ours Of youth aud men in the early primo OF
mechanics, clerks, porters,
laborers. &c, who like DIP into
city life. with is spectaclks, its gayo-
ties. and its chances for adventure and
for sudden wealth. and who steal ny into
the country as they grow older, wis, more
sedats. These opposite currents OF ycung men
seeking employment IN the great cities 'ad OF
mef past their prime leaving ihem-the few
rich aud In search OF quiet and sccusion; the
many disappointed, needy, perhaps crippled or
enieebed, and unable longer 10 support their
families Oh the payemonts-account for very
much Of The disparity emphasized BY Gov. Sey.
mour. Then our rural dis;ricis. beside sending
largely OF their young nlen 10 the War are
constantly drained OF them by the inviting
praries, new settlements and rising cities Of
the West where fully hall OF our young farm.
ers make their homes Hence they have rela-
lively far fewer men liable 10 Drn.t than this
City or the young states OF tie Wet.
Again We cntreat that Gov. Seymour's let
ter to the Prcsiden, b. carefully read aud
pobderel
7. S.-Goy. Seymour la, written stll another
letter 70 the President. lie regrets the r..
iu.a to suspend tbs draft, and again insists
that great injustice hns been done ia the en-.
roment Gov. Seymour who camored for q
draft only few months ago, who represented
it 10 be the only proper and equitable way to
raise men, who has found in the prospect of
Il draft Though ho now opposes ~ the most
powerful incentive TO yolunieering-th same
Governor now changes front once more and
boldly asserts flat the prospect Of draft pre-
vents volunteering. Having asserted both the
affirmative and the negative, the President is
OI course presumed 10 Do tOsscu uPoh 'Ho
horns Of dilemma. The Governor now states
that the irst nine Congressional Districts OF
the State, giving vote of 15l, 2i3, are called
upon for 33729 men; that nineteen other
80 G2G. Why does Ire suppress five country
districts altogether Does he not know there
are thirty.threc districts in the State-Or do
not the five omitted districts help his special
plea lie adds, as n special ailront that
the nine districts gave majorlties for the Dem.
ocratic ticket, while the nineteen others gave
Republican majorties. This said, he tells Mr..
Lincoln, "You cannot aud will not fail to
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