Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-08-14

ALBANY, August 8.
To the President Of the United States:
received your communication Of the 7!h in
slant this day. While recognizes the conces-
,ions you make, regret your refusal to comply
With my request to have the draft in this STATE
suspended untll it can be asoertained If the en-
sollments are made in accordance With the Law
Of Congress or With the principles of Justice.
kooW that our army needs recruits, and for
his and other reasons regret decision which
stsnds In the way Of prompS aud cheerful
movements TO fill up the thinned ranks of our
regiments. New York has never paused in,
,ts efJrts to send volunteers 90 the assistance
Of our gallant suldiera in the field. 1. has not
oalY met every call heretofore m sde, while every
jther Atlantic and the New England States,
except Rno 10 Island, we're dsllDq ieht, but it
couunuei liberal bounties to voluuteers when
all Efforts were suspended in many other quar-
sers. Active sxertions are now made to organ
zs new aud FIJI up old regiments. These ex.
ertions would be more successful If the drsts
vas suspended, aud much better meu .thaa re-
luct,ut conscripts would join our armies.
On the In inst | advised you by letter that
would furnish the strongest pro5f OF the In
Just ce, il not ttraud, ia the e4sollment ia csr-
sam dlssrics. i nov send full Report made
10 me by Judge Advocate Waterbury.
L Gm c)nhdent, when you have read ii, that
you will agree wlGh ne tn it the honor of the ns
,iOn aud OF your administfasion demands tha 3
al, abuses It points out shoul be corrected an
punished t'1N' wen
You cay that we are coutendng With an enc.
my who, as you understand, "drives every
.ble bodied maa he can reach into the ranks,
sery much az butcher drives bullocks into .
ilsughier-pen." You viii aRses VITA me that
even this, If impardaliy done 70 oil classes, Ia
more tolerable than any scheme which snail
frauduieutly torce portion of the community
'nto military service BY dishonest psrversion
. o; the law. .'-a 2.3H %
You will see by the report Of Mr.. Waterbury
that there 10 no theory which can explain or JUS
lily the enrollmsnt in this Safe, Wish to call
your attention to the tables on p,ges fve, six,
seven, aod eight, which ehow that IN nine Con-
gtessional districts, in M lnhattan . Long, aud
Staten Islands, the number Of consoripts called
for is 80 729, while Ia nineteen other districts
the numoer of conscdpss called for 10 only 80, :
626 This draft is to be made iron tne first
GLASS;. those between the, ages of tWen.y and
thirty.fve 1t appears by tue census OF 1860
that in the fret nine Congressional DISTRICTS
there we're l64 1877 males between twenty aud
thirty five; they are called upon for 33 I29 con-
scripts. In the other nineteen districIs, with
population of males between twenty aud thirty
i've of 27O. .7s6, only 80. .626 are demanded.
Again, to chow the partisan character OF the
enroll nens,you will fad in the tsepsy fret page
of the military report that in tle frat nine Coa-
gressioa aal districts the total vote OF 1860 was
ISL, ,243; the number Of conscrpss now demaud. /.
ed is 33. .729. 10 the bniaeteen Iother districts
the total vote wAs 457. .257; Jet these districts
are called upon to furnish only 80 626 drafted
.men. Each Of the nine districts gave msj,ri-
ties in favor Of one POLITICAL party, and each Of
the nineteen distrIcss gave nsjOriaes 10 favor
OF the other p.rb b ss1 rsosS o,n
d You cannot, and win not, fall 70 right these
lgross wronge. A'a'N
90 Truly yours, 90 s.ap
@ ys sss g IS 7sHuRATIo SEYMOUR.