East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1863-08-19
Che Gonrter.
wednesday, August 10, 1868.
Tha Draft in Now York.

Tho Draft in Now York.
No amount Of bullying, bragg soph-
ishy, insinuation or indecent abuse
of Democrats on the part of the adj
ministration organs, can obscure on
disprove the atrocious fact that the
CONSUMPTION act has been used inmany
portions, at loast, of New York, as a
measure of tyranny against the Dem
oeratic party, and to advance the po-
litica1 ends of the radicals now in
power. The admirable and patriotic
letter Of Governor Seymour to the
President was of itself masterly eX-
pose of, the system of outrages at
tempted, and facts since developed
give confirmation Of the strongest char
actcr of the rascality and criminal fa-
voritism pcrpetratod in the enforce
ment of the act
The following extract shows" up
briefly and pointcdly, some Of these
outragcs;
From the journal Of Commerce.
All honest, patriotic men desire 10
sustain the laws of the land. Start
with that proposition, and we shall all
agree 1t is no part ola citizens duty
in sustaining a law that he shall sup
port every arbitrary act olthe subordi-
mates who are employed as enforcers
of the law 1t is far from duty, or
even from right, to encourage officers
of the law in wrong doing, by the bold
assertion that the law must be put
through any how. That would be bad
law, bad logic, and bad policy. Let
us look at the matter Of the draft
calmly, in the new light afforded by
the astounding report of Judge Adyo-
cate Waterbury. This report must
overwhelm with wondemcnt every one
who reads it.
The enrolment OF the first class in
New York city includes more names
than the entire male population with
In the Second Ward fn9 WR64SfRjp-
ulation in 1860 was 2,507; males 20 to
40-S47. The enrolment Of the first
class in this ward is LAG. The full
vote Of the ward Is only $50.
Nineteen districts which gave a vote
of 10, 257, with republican majorities
are to furnish 80, GIG conscripts while
nine districts which gave democratic
maioritics, on a vote Of only 15l,2i3,
are required to furnish 33, 100 soldiers.
Twelve districts which gave Seymour
maioritics, on vote Of lSG, 800, are to
furnish 40,2S7 conscripts, while six
teen districts, which gave Wadsworth
maiorities on nearly double the vote
OF the other twelve, to wit, 353,62l,
are to furnish fewer conscripts, name
ly, 33,0G8.
Seven districts in Now York and
Brooklyn are to furnish two-tifths Of
of the whole draft, while twenty-one
other districts only furnish three-iilths,
These facts are unimpeachable' No
one will pretend to deny them.
LoCSronT, Aug o, 1908
To the Editor Of the New York Times
The draft which has Just been com
pleted in this (the Twcnty-ninth) Dis
trict, shows that extensive frauds have
been pe1potuatod upon the democracy
ofINiagara Co; and, from reliable re-
ports, the other Cos of the district
have suffered in the same way.
In the town of Somerset, which, at
the last State election, gave Wads-
worth, for Governor 27S and Seymour
%, majority of the persons drawn
are democrats. The town Of Nigga
ia, which gave Wadsworth 257 votes,
had 122 names drawn from the box,
of which 1l5 were democrats and I
republicans, The town of Whcatheld,
which is inhabited by Germans, and
is almost unanimously democratic, was
placed with a town Of the opposite
kind i'll the box, and the result showed
that the Wheatield Germans had TO
furnish the quota for both towns. In
the town of Hartland, which gave
Wadsworth | II majority, three-fourths
of the names drawn are democrats.
In the lower ward of Locliport where
the laboring men reside, and where
there are not enough republican vo-
ters to perfect an organization, the
names were put with two other wards
and the lower sward furnishes nearly
all the men. On one road III this Co.
there reside six democrats and six re-
publicans, the six democrats were
drawn, the other six succeeded in get
ting OFF