The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-08-18
Ihe seymour and Lincoln Contro


Che seym our and Lincoln COntrO
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Interpolation of that willy Copper
head Gov. SEYMOUR 10 the enforcement
of the draft in New York, especially
among his fr ,nds'' tha rioters and negro
burners, and the controversy between
that officer and the President thereon,
having assumed a national Importance,
we deem il proper TO publish some sta
tistics showing that the Conservative
Executive of New York is wholly with
out excuse in this matter. The figures
given completely refute. the assertion so
often made by the enemies of the Adj
ministration, that the men who voted for
President have not enlisted in the army.
The following article is from the digni-
fed and able NJ J., Times,
the Volunteering from New-YOFk
..sa rt.4 .. state. aHgs.tt saw /.
Gov. Seymour, in his correspondence
with the President, accuses him of baV-
ing made an unfair enrolment in the
State--a partisan enrolment He gives
rs a ground forthis accusation the fact
that in the Counties of New York and
Kings more men are enrolled than in GER
tain rural counties, in proportion to the
number who voted in the election last
Fall. &. = il &, .4--s.a.z.-4 "a. ~ ...t'
Last Fail, ne was elected Governor by
less than II, 600 majority, out of the TO-
tai vote Of over 100000 But be receiv-
ed in New York and Kings over $4,000
votes, and had a majority in these two
counties of oyer $4,000, Among those
1900. voters were many honest men,
who hate ~trai tors and treason. But
among them was every man who had
from the beginning openly and secretly
aided the rebellion, and opposed each
| and every measure to put il down. II
included that large class who had given
assurance TO the rebels that New York
would never permit the General Govern
ment TO "coerce sovereign State" and
would furnish neither men nor money 10
such q war
New \ ork City andiis vicinity con-
tanned the dangerous class" upon whom
the rebel leaders counted for allies, and
who were 10 rise in instruction and
make the streets flow with blood, if the
rebel newspapers may be taken for an
thOritY. sDs - as - 4,4
These were not the kind of men who
had volunteered TO defend our national ex-
istence, aud who had gone into the army.
They had remained al home to manipn-
late the.eleettons aud TO hold the Offices.
They had their role to play in this rebel
lion, and they played it. They were TO
gain possession of the State authority
aud array il in opposition to the war.
They busted themselves in deuouucing
the waV, sneered at its successes, exult-
cd at its disasters. and proclaimed on
platforms and in newspapers that they
would never bear q musket in such q
cause, and that they went for vigorous
prosecutions of peace" .1--
II so happened that the labors Of these
men against the war made il difficult TO
get volunteers, aud the alternative was
presented of drafting men into tho arr
my or submitting TO such terms of M
l'tiouRt acknowledgements the rebel might
dictate N r..a- ---..sv4 80 .u. N 80
A CONSUMPTION was made of certain
classes liable 10 do military duty. Il IL
very much like the Stale law which Sew
mour recommended last Winter, and
which, as Governor, he signed But he
prOiessed to be shocked at the discovery
| that the Metropolitan counties in which
be received $4,000 votes last Fall contain
larger number of men enrolled for The
draft than certain rural counties, taking
the ratio of voters az = basis for an es-
innate, IIo denouuces il as unfair, and
J Of partisan character. s......
II seems that his friends did not 90 in
TO the army, and when he finds their
names taken by the enrolling officer, no
affects to be surprised, and, pointing 10
the country counties, exelaims how hap
pens ID those rolls contain so many
! names in Sew.York and SO few in ST.
Lawrence, compared with the poll-lists
of these counties last Fall? ---
Yes, Governor how happens It that 50