Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-08-11
LATEST NEWS.

BY TELEGR APT
TO THE WORCESTER DAILY SPY

ALBANY, Aug SO the President of the
United StateS-I received your communica-
ton OF the 7th, this day While | recognize
the concessions you make, | regret your re-
fusal to comply with my request to have the
draft in this state suspended until it can be
ascertmned if the enrollments are made in ac-
cordance with the law of congress, or with the
principles Of Justice | know that our army
needs recruits, and for this and other reasons
| regret a decision which stands in the way of
a prompt and cheerful movement to fill up the
thinned ranks of our regiments.
New Y ork has never paused in It's efforts to
send volunteers to the assistance Of our gal
liant soldiers in the field. 1t has not only met
every call heretofore made. while every other
Atlantic and the New Eugland states, except
Rhode Island were delinquent, but continued
liberal bounties to volunteers when all efforts
were suspended in many other quarters. Ac-
tive eXertions are now made to organize
new and fill up old regiments. These exer-
tons would be more successful if the draft
were suspended, and much better men than re-
luctant conscripts would loin our armies. On
the 7:h inst. | advised you by letter that
would furnish the strongest proof of the injus-
tice, if not fraud, in the enrolment in certain
districts. now send Il full report made to
me by Judge Advocate Waterbury.
am confident that when you have read it
you will agree with me, that the honor of the
nation and Of your administration demands
that the abuses it points out should be cor
rected and punished. You say we are con-
tending with an enemy who, as you UNDER
stand, drives every able bodied man he can
reach into the ranks, very much as butcher
drives bullocks into Il slaughter pen. You
will agree with me that even this, if impair
TALLY done to all classes, is more tolerable
than any scheme which shall fraudulently
force portion of the community into the mil
itary service by dishonest perversion of the
law. You will see by the report of Mr.. Wa
terbury that there is no theory which can eX-
plain or justify the enrolment in this state.
l wish to call your attention to the tables
on pages six, seven, and eight, which show
that IN nine congressional districts in Manhat-
tan, Long and Staten Islands, the number of
conscripts called for is 1927, while in nine
teen other districts the number of conscripts
called for is only 1926. The draft is to he
made from the first class, those between the
ages of 20 and 80. 1t appears by the census
of 1860 that in the first nine congressional
districts there were 1874, 797 males between 20
and 80. They are called upon for 1929
conscriptS. In the other nineteen districts,
with population of males between 20 and 80
of O,786, only 80, 626 are demanded.
Again, to show the partisan character of
the enrolment, you will find in the 2lst page
of the military report that in the first nine CON
gressonal districts the total vote of 1862 was
l5l,243, the number of cOnscripts now de-
manded is 33,729. In the nineteen other
districts the total vote was 457, PSI, yet these
districts are called upon to furnish only &c.,
62G drafted men. Each of the nine districts
gave majorities in favor of one political party,
and each Of the nineteen districts gave major.
tiles in favor Of the other party. You can
not and will not fail to right these gross
wrongs. Yours truly,
HoRATIO SEYMOUR.