Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-08-14
number 10 be drafted, and the number Of voters
10 thefeyetAl Congressional District, inwbieh
enrollmeDts have been completed. aud Of which
Sd day Of August, 1863. ~ sssgasi'1.4.i
REPLY CT THE PRECEDENT.
.,iniV afarg ExEcUrIyE MANSION, J
WARRINGTON, August 7I
His Ereeliency Ho,atfo Seymour, Governor Of
New York, Albany. ". Y:

| WARRINGTON, august ~
His Ereelieney Ho,atfo Seymour, Governor Of
Ne~ York, Albany N. Y:
Your com muuication Of the 81 instant has
been recsived aud attentivey considered.
c.n not consent to suspend the draft In New
Yo K, as you request, because, among other
reasons, TIME is too Important. By the figures
you send, which | presume are correct, the
twelve districts represented fall In two classes
OF eight and four respectively.
The disparity of the quotas fer the draft In
these two classes is certainly very striking, be-
ing the diffsre3ce het seen an average of 1900
in one class aud 1854 in the other. Assuming
that the districts are equal one TO another in
entire population as required by the plan on
which they were made, this disparity is such as
to rq1ire attention. Much of II, however. I
suppose will be accounted for by the fact that
so many more persUns ft for soldiers are In the
city than are In the country, who have too re-
Gently arrived from other parts of the United
States and from Europe TO be either included in
the census of 1860, or to have voted In 1862 -
Sill, making due allowance tor this, am vet
unwilling to stand upon IL as an entirely sufi-
cient explanation OF the great disparity. i shall
direct the draft TO procsed in all the distric.e,
drawing, hoNever, at frat from each of the four
disttictA, to- witi the Second Fourth, Sixth aud
Eighth, oDly 2200 being the average quota of
the other class Afserl,his drawing these four
districts, and also the SeventeeBth and Twenty.
ninth, shall be carefully Eeenrolled, and, If you
please, agents OF you're may witness every step
of the process. Any deficiency which may ap.
pear by the new tntollment will be sopplied by
special drsft tor that object, allo wing due
cfedi, fer v0llnleetH who IN AZ be obt iined from
these dstricta respectively during the interval;
and AZ all poiLts, go faras consistent with pr 10
tical convenience, due credits shall be given Tor
volunteers, and your Excelleucy shall be noti-
lied OF the time fixed tor mmencpg draft in
ch dEtrict. gAIuU'. r -.,.
DO Dot object to abide decision, OF the
United States Supreme Cur, or Of the Judges
.te eof, on the constilutionaiity Of the draft
Law. lofac', l should be wiling to facilitate
the Obtaining. Of is. Bat ciu mt consent to
!1se the time while is is being obtained We
are contending With an enemy who, q, under
stand, drives every a1le bodied man he can
reach in:o hls ranks, very much as butcher
iriSes bullOcks into q tlAusbter-pen. No
lime is wasted, no argument ls used -
This produces an army which will coon
urn on our now victorious soldiers al
teady IN the fsld, if they sGall.not be sustain
ed b. recruits as they should De. IL produces
N army with rIpidity 10 t. bs matched on
Jur eide, II we fret waste nme TO re.experiment
Sth he volunteer sys em. already deemed by
Congress, ard pei |aolJ, iu TACT, so far e1hauss-
ed as 70 be Inadequate, and then more time to
IoEain court decision as to whether q Law is
constitutional, which requires part of those
uot now 10 the service to 20 to the aid Of those
iiresdy ID it F.; and still more time 10 determine
with absolute certainty that We get tbois who
are TO go, In the precisely legal proportion 10
those who are not to 60. Ny purpose is to be
nEi ~, nd ak
PRACTICAL, 10 performing the important duty
WITH which am charged, of maintaining the
unity aud tue tree principles OF our common
country. Hrv -.E
~f~ = Your obedient servant,
....... A. LINCOLN.