The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-07-31
ITS EFFECT WITHIN THE STATE.
POSITION OF NEW YORK COM
PARED WITH MANY OTHER
STATES ON FORMER CALLS.
No Warning Given to the Local Or State
Officials of the Time 10 Draft.
THE RESULT OF THE INoENDIARY
ARTICLES of the RADICAL PRESS.
SENATOR MORGAN'S MISSION
TO WASHINGTON.
The Governor Advises the Aban-
dOnment of the Draft & Prom
ises to Fill the Quota of the
State by EnliStmentS.

Now that order is again restored in
this city, the usual quiet reigns from one
end of Manhattan Island to the other
and business has assumed its usual &C.
tivity, we can review the action of the
authorities and some of the incendiary
operations of the radicals in the late
disturbance in this city. To do this it is
necessary to turn back to the last quota
raised in this State while Senator Nor
gan was Governor.
Last year, when Gov. Morgan (Re>
publican) was raising the quota of this
State of 10000, the administration,
verbally and by letter, pledged Governor
Morgan that if any county made mp more
than its quota it would he credited and
allowed on the next call or draft. Un.
der that pledge made by the admins,
tration Governor Morgan notified the
committee who were engeged in each
Senatorial district to obtain all the men
they could-not to stop with their quota
and that all over would be credited to
them on the next call. The leading men
in each county put their shoulders to the
wheel, raised money to increase the boun.
ties, and in many localities raised more
than their quota. But it seems that the
administration did not keep its pledge
in that any better than it has in many
other things.
During the late disturbances mum.
ber of leading republicans were here to
see Senator Morgan and ascertain the
reason for the violation of the pledge
They openly stated that trouble existed
among the republicans as well as the
democrats, and that they, having taken
q prominent part in the eulstments last
year, were placed in a position to de-
ceive the people, and were powerless to
do anything to quiet the trouble if it
should commence in their localities as
was threatened We saw prominent
men of the republican party from almost
every important point in the State in
this city. Senator Morgan could only
say that they were in the same boat with
him, that the pledge was made, and that
he, with the cooperation of Governor
Seymour and General Sprague, had done
all in their power to get the administra.
tion to carry out their pledge. Wash.
ipgton officials kept promising, but all
had ended in promises, and he also stood
in the false position of attempting
to deceive the people, and he did not
wonder much ut the tumult that existed
throughout the State.
1t appears that this is not the only
trouble that Senator Morgan has had
with the blunderheads and incompetent
officials who have charge of the War
Department at Washington. Near the
close Of Gov. Morgan's term of Office
Gen. Halleck kept complaining that he
(Morgan) was slow in sending on his
troops, stating that he was away behind.
It will be remembered, also, that state
ments that this State was behind hand
were harped upon by the radical press
Of New England and other States, with
the evident design to prove that, while
other States had filed their quota, con-
servative New York was delinquent
As soon as Gov. Morgan was relieved
!, of his duty at Albany he visited Wash.
3 iigton to ascertain the trouble. On ar.
irving there Gen Halleck again accused
him of being behind hand. Gov. Nor
gan, on the other hand, was confident
that the quota of the State was filled
and called for Gen. Halleck's list of those
regiments that had arrived. Gen. Hal
leck, with pompons assurance that he
3 was correct, handed him the list andsaid
"See for Yourself" Gov. Morgan, care
fully running over the list, and noticing
the numbers and names of colonelS, i'm
mediately replied, "There are some if
teen regiments which, l have been off
cialIy informed, have arrived at theil
destination that are not down on thai
list" Gen. Halleck insisted that his
list was correct and Gov. Morgan wat
in error, when the latter gave him the
numbers Of the regiments, names of thu
colonels, and the date of their departure
from the State. Gen. Halleck still in
sisted that the regiments had not re
ported, and the question is, where arr
those regiments2
Governor Morton suggested that the,
might be in Gen. Wool's department, il
4 Maryland. A dispatch was forthwith
sent to General Wool, and the lost regi
ments were found. They were there
and had been for some time. Gen. Hal
leck had nothing further to say abou
the tardiness of New York or the failur,
to fill quota. .....r ...r-. ,.
This did not end the difficulty between