Weekly national intelligencer., 1863-08-13
ADDITIONAL CORRESPONDENCE.
LETTER FROM GOV. SEYMOUR.

ALBANY AUGUST g. 1863
To the President Of the United States;
received your communication of the 7h instant this
day.
While recognise the concessions you make, regret
your refusal to comply with my requ st to have the draft
In this State suspended until 1t be ascerained if the
enromeDts made in accordance with the law of Con
gress, with the principles of justice. know that our
army needs recruits and for this aud other regret
decision which stands in the way prompt cheerful
movement to fill up the thnned ranks Of regiments
New York has paused in its ers to send volun-
eers to the assistance OF gallant soldiers in the field
1t has not only met every call heretofore made hs every
other Atlantic and the England states except Rhode
Island were deinquent but it continued liberal boun
ties to volunteers when all efforts suspended 10 many
other quarters Active exertions made to or
ganize the and fill up the old regiments These exer-
ons will be successful il the draft suspended
and much better than reluctant conscripts would
Join armies
On the 7th instant advised you by letter that would
furnish the strongest proof Of the injustice if fraud
In the enrolment in certain districts. send you
full report made to me BY Judge Advocate Waterbury
am conhdent when you have read 1t that you will ayr
with that the honor of the nation and of your admins
tation demands that the abuses it points out should be
corrected and punished,
You say that conending with an enemy who, an
you understand, drives every able-bodied he
reach into the ranks very much butcher drives buocks
into slaughter pen" You will agree with that
this, II impartiay done to all classes, toerabe
than any scheme which shall frauduenty force portion
OF the community into military service by dishonest per-
version OF the law.
iou VIM hoo Wy Pno report U tnaJ tncre
~ no theory which explain justify the enrolment
in this State wish to call your attention to the tables
on pages 5, g. z, and 8, which show that in nine Con-
gressiona districts, in Manhattan Long and Staten
Islands, the number Of oonsoripts called for 33 729
while in nineteen other districts the number of conscrpts
called for is only 1896 This draft to be made from
the hrt class those between the ages If twenty and
thirtyfve 1t appears by the s60 that n the
first nine districts there were 1874 1877 males
between twenty and thirtyfvei they are called upon
70 supply 50 72e conscrpts In the other nineteen dis
tricts, with population OF males between twenty and
thirty-hve of 270756, only SO 626 are demanded
Again to show the partisan character of the epromeot
you will find ON the twentyfrst page of the military
port that in the first nine districts the total
vote OF S6O was l5l 243 The number of conscpts
demanded is 3329 Ia the nineteen other districts the
total vote was 457257 Yet these districts are called
upon to furnish only 1896 drafted men, Each of the
nine districts gave msjoriles in favor Of political
party, and each OF the nineteen districts gave mjores
IN favor OF the other party
You cannot and will not fail TO riaht these gross wrongs
Truly yours, HOkATIO SEYMOUR.