Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-07-31

ment thereupon determines the number Of
men to be drawn from that District, and the
! President issues to the Board of Enrolment
proclamation, ordering the draft of a given
number of men. That proclamation is pub
lished by the Board, giving the time and
place OF drawing, which is in all cases to be
public. The first official information man
receives that he has drawn "check," is, the
service of notice by deputy marshal, re-
quiring him to appear at the place named,
within ten days, or be regarded deserter.-
Having been drawn, and appeared at the
place designated, he is examined by the Board,
and if no disability exists, he is duly muster
ed into service. If the person drafted claims
exemption upon other grounds than physical
disability, his claim will then be heard
There is 10 secresy in anything connected
with the enrolment or draft. The office of
the Board is open from s A. NJ. to P n, and
the .olls are open for inspection. Indeed, we
are informed that not day passes that citi-
zens from different parts of the District do
not call to make inquiries and examine the
rolls. ...5s. ... ..,.r
The declaration that secresy might be tole-
rated, did those who control the draft merit
the confidence of the people, we know to be
published for the purpose of creating opposi-
ton to the draft. The gentlemen selected by
the Government to superintend this work
are so well known for probity and honor, that
the cowardly editor of the Courier has no
arrow poisoned with malignant hatred that
can reach them. The AssistantProvost Marshal
General of the State, Major Thomas Duncan,
Of the cavalry branch of the Regular Army,
"a soldier and gentlemen, distinguished
alike for his gallant conduct in Mexico and the
present Rebellion, and his fealty to the princi-
pie of "equal and exact justice to all men -
is so infinitely above the supple tool Of trea-
son down the Avenue, that the work of de-
Tending him is work of supererogation. He
sits in his chair and smiles at the knavery of
Thayer. Capt P. E. Hall, Provost Marshal
of this District, is a gentleman who has gain
ed, by his courtesy and thorough business
habits, an enviable reputation among the peo-
pie of Clinton county. As Assistant Adjutant
General, and Paymaster General of Iowa, he
has secured the friendship and good opinions
of thousands, who never yet, owing to his
contemplate insignifcance, heard of Thayer
The Commissioner of Enrolment, VIM. F. Da-
Wis, Esq, of this city, is well known to the
people of this county and the State generally,
as a gentleman..of irreproachable character,
who would not stoop to such base work as
the Courier charges upon the Board. The
Examining Surgeon, DR.. E. s. Barrows, an
old and prominent citizen Of Davenport, one
Of the original settlers of that place, and
whose hairs are whitening with the frosts of
many winters, has too many personal and
political friends in this city to require from
our hands any encomiums. When the coso-
ardly thing who scribbles for the Courier
reaches up to attack DR.. Barrows, his fall will
be so Insignificant as to be unnoticed. For
hina, whom no decent man recognizes upon
the highway, who devotes his hours to SLAM.
dering private character, for this vile tool Of
an infamous faction to say "that the off.
scourings Of humanity, the depraved, deluded
and degraded of earth's fallen ones, have
been chosen to superintend the draft, !" shows
Of what shallow and villainous material the
creature is made. ,t' 80 ---'
Up to the present time there has been no
calls made upon Iowa for men under the1
act. The Curriers' 13, 900 Iowa
citizens, to be drawn on certain day, is |
purely imaginary. The people already have
the right, therefore, and need not demand to
examine the enrolment lists and in any man.
ner inform themselves as to the fairness of
the draft, and this right is conceded ire
spective of party. It is barely possible that
some names have been twice enrolled, but
if John Smith be drafted and subsequently his
name be drawn again, it is clearly evident
that John can't be called upon to do service
for two during term of three years. That
any mans name has been omitted, on account
Of favoritism, is an idea supposed to have
emanated from the brain Of one who retained
his hold upon Office and the Swamp Land
funds, through partizan favoritism. II
. Whatever rights are given the people Of
Michigan we know are given the people Of
Iowa, and no more. ~s.s sa RI
tits expected of . man, who justifes the
recent disturbances in New York, to say that
they grew out Of the secresy surrounding the
draft. To remove that secresy it was nee
essary to burn dwellings and business blocks.
tear up railroad tracks, hang negroes, murder
white men, and for Seymour to call them his
'.friends," WASN'T it? Brilliant man, thou,
Mr.. Thayerl There has been no place whore
there were less than 800 men present to Wit
ness the draft. In Iowa, the people, without
your asking, will have an open draft, fair and
above-board. There being no mystery or &C.
cresy about it there will be none to remove.
The people still have an opportunity to ex-
anime the lists, and we haye no doubt Mr..
Thayer would be shown around with pleas
ure if he would visit the "Star Chamber" at
Davenport. The notice of the time and place
of the draft and of the number required
may not be published in the Courier, but
we believe it will be published. As Mr..
Thayer wants our people to have the same
rights enjoyed by those Of Michigan, and as
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