New-York daily tribune., 1863-08-01
TIyE DRAFT.
Items.

We hear of Journeys to Washington to urge
the postponsment of the Draft in this, that or
the other section, as if the Government were
sort Of Providence that might summon men
to the field or dispense with their services
according TO its august pleasure. But this
, assumption utterly ignores the material facts
in the case. The Government has ordered q
Draft, simply because the pressing eIigencles
Of the public service imperatiysly require one.
The Union has recently achieved splendid sue.
cesses, which, were it able 70 follow them up
promptly and vigorously, would speedily and
utterly crush out the Rebellion. This grand
contamination is prevented simply aud solely
! by tho lack Of numbers in the ranks Of our
armies. We have, within the last month,
diminished the traitor armies by not less than
One Hundred thousand Men, while our losses
during that eventful month do not exceed
Thirty thousand. But, while the Rebel chiefs
hold their men without exception to serve to
the end of the war. though many OF them
enlisted for barely one year, our armies have
been and are about TO be depleted fully One
Hundred Thousand by the mastering out Of
regiments that have served out their two
years enlistment or their nine months draft,
and have Gained and been accorded their dis
charge. Thus it happens that On this lst day
Of August, notwithstanding tho immense sue
cesses Of July. the Union armies are relatively
no stronger than they were month ngo; and,
in few days, if not reinforced, they will be
actually weaker.
To show how urgent is the necessity. how
serious the peril, which this Draft confronts,
we need but quote from the Copperhead paper
next at Land-The Worid-whose New-Orleans
correspondent writes, under date OF July go,
as follows:
"Msor Gen. Frwkn (who ranks Colonel IN tho United
States Typographical EDgnes) arrived in this city BY the
steamer Natsnzss s,t stt1roay There has been some In
oury a. 20 the special need just low for more MsorGe erals
or even Brssde 10 corps already sbundaaty sup
pied with everything in tho military line creeping men
The Nineteenth Army Corps always needed men-thousnd'
more than IT numbered in ii b,. dayso accomplish part
even Of what the United State, Government proessed to
psci that Gen Banks would perform In this department.
They are seeaed now to what Iosto hi up the
decsed regiments iebfully reduced during the not yet
complete campaign to establish the fact pehsps that there
IL Department Of the Gulf"
Such Is tho cry that comes up from every
quarter" Men Men Send US men TO fill up
our wasted ranks and enable us to advance on the
defeated, cowed, dispirited Rebels" Glorious
East Tennessee, 80 long trodden under the iron
heel of tho most remorseless, cruel despotism the
world ever saw-prays for instant liberation, that
she may be spared the horrors Of the new and all.
embracing Rebel Conscription; (she has at least
Ten Thousand good and true UnonistS as con.
scripts in the Rebel armies already;) she cannot
vet be liberated for want Of men. Charleston
ought to have completed the measure of our July
triumpbs; che holds Gimores brave little force at
bay solely because her defenders greatly outnum'
Der her assai!ants. Texas 10 this day q Union
State; had Gen. Blunt Ten thousand moro men,
he would deliver her from tho sway of tho hand
t Of traitors that now tsrrVrxe hey and su0k Qpt