The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-06-24
HOW THE ABOLITION STATES
ESCAPE AND OHIO rs OUT
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We have received from Hon. T. j: KENNY
the report of the Commissioner of Statistics
of the State of Ohio for the year 1862, in
which is included a full statement of the mum.
Der of men that have been or now are in the
-a.mE-of the United States from this State
From that report, which coming +'sy author1-
tyn from Tod & Co., can not be disputed. We
take the following extracts:
The Ad;utant-G ene-al makes the number
as follows:
8 months men in 1861 an1 1862: 26,s9S
years men (under call of april,
8 years. apsi men tander call CT july.
reduct three months men, twice
counted. by being the number
of 8 years volunteers l5,5O0
Aggregate of all men entecedthe service, 170,121
But this is not the true number who must
no1o be on the rolls of the army. dead, or dis
charged ; for it is plain that the residue of
8 months men, who did not volupteer a second
time, and are counted above, must either have
returned Nome, or died. At any rate, that
number III, 1897 do not belong to the present
army, whether alive or dead Deducting that
number from the above, leaves 1928, which
is the number which should now be accounted
for, either in the field, dead, sick, or absent.
This is the number which Ohio has furnished
for l,1Oo, GOO men of which I have shown
that her quota was 1883. Thus Chic has
furnished Al, 205 more men than she Uas
strictly required to do.b
Now we ask the dispassionate attention of
our people, whether Republicans or Demo-
Gratis, to a consideration of the above state
ment. "Ohio, (includang The men drafted
last fiaH,) has, furnished forty one thousand
t,ro hundred and fre more men than she foIs
strictly required to do" In spite Of this fact
i. is now known by all that hordes of aboli-
.tion officials are pcrambulating the country, en-
rolling the names of-the people for the purpose
of another conscription. At the time the one
was made last fall our State had in the field
10000 more men than her quota, and yet ac-
cording to this report near 5000 mel were
dragged from their homes at that time when
they had no right to take them even under
their infamous conscription, and were hurried
to the slaughter pens of the South where dis
ease and battle have laid low many of the no.
blcst aud best. This was done when Ohiois
quota was far morethan filled, and it is pro-
posed to do it again, upon a still larger scale,
when. forty one thousand brave sons of Ohio
are perilling their lives in places that shouR
be filed by a pack of lazy, cowaidly, .thieving
yankees of New England who loll in luxury
and ease at home coming money ont of the
blood of the men of the North West. Must
this be submitted too Shall tho men who de-
stroyed the country and brought on all the
terrible calamnitics that have befalIen our
country in the last two years be permitted to
go on in their infamous work No man who
looks upon this thing, be BE Democrat or Re-
publican, if an Ohioan, but should denounce
and, if necessary, resist to the death any fur
ther attempt to carry. out such stupendous
wrong and outrage upon their persons and
their rights.
sar The most yiolert supporters of the
present political policies of the war are the
men who for twenty years past have denoun-
.oed the Constitution as a covenant with hell.
They are the loyal men Of these times.