New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-08-12
GOV. SEYMOUR AND THE DRAFT.

asking q postponement OF the National Drait
until its constitutonality can be legally adju-
dictated and until certain alleged inequalities
in ts requirement of men from different sec.
tions Of our State be removed. The President
responds that, while be does not object to an
adjudication of the constitutionalty Of the Ma
tional CONSUMPTION, but will facilitate the OBJ
tanning of it, he cannot postpone the Draft be-
cause time Is essential and the need OF recruit
ing our armies in the field is urgent as well
as imperative. But as it is complained that
certain districts are required to furnish an I'M
due number, he will reduce the number to be
Immediately drawn from those City Districts
to the average of that required from the
other (rural) Districts, and proceed to have
these Districts respectively.
Carefully reenrolsG-snd you please og.n, Of yours
NAV witness every step OF tho process Any deficiency
which may appear by the new enrol meat VIII be supplied
unteers msy be OBJ aimed from thcss Districts fespsc
lively during the interval aud at all points far n con
for volunteers, and your EIcesncy ha notified u the
time hIed for CONNER cins sraf in each District"
Now if the object Of the Governor had been
truly set forth by him-if the alleged unfair
ness of the enrolment had been anything else
than prete1t for embarrassing the Govern
ment end fighting off the Draft altogether
would he not have been satisfied with this
The Governor complains that certain (City)
Districts are called upon to supply more than
their due proportion of the men required and
wants the Draft postponed for scrutiny and
revision OF the Enrolment. ] cannot postpone
the Draft, replies the President in substance;
because that would be to abandon our brave
soldiers already in the field and lose all the
fruits of our recent magnificent successes; but
| will only coll at first on the Districts you say
have been too fully enrolled for the same aver
age number Of men as on those which you
say are called on for too few; and proceed ut
once 10 have the enrolment thoroughly re-
vised and corrected; and you are welcome 10
send agents to watch the process throughout.
What could be fairer than this What
shadow of grievance is left ? But the Gov
ernor canno. so easily abandon the Rebels to
their doom. Before they had fired shot, he
made on elaborate speech in Tweddlc Hall TO
prove that they could not possibly be con-
quered and he has the natural hatred Of rash
prognosticators to be proved false prophets.
He returns to the charge in a rejoinder. falser
and more reasonable, if possible, than his
opening, closing "You cannot and will not fail
10 right these gross wrongs when the Pres
ident had Just explicitly assured him that every
complaint should DO investigated, every wrong
righted.
His object is plan-to paralyze the arm and
arrest the triumphant progress Of the Federal
Government. He has heard and beeded the
"grand haing sgn Of distress made by jeff.
Davis in his latest manifesto The Rebellion
is cavng in. Its Northern allies must speedily
make diversion in ts favor or it il gone
case. Hence we find that, from Maine TO
Iowa, the Copperbeads are resisting the Draft
by evident preconcert with exceeding venom.
Shooting enrolling officers, burning their build
ngs, borrowing money on public credit TO de.
feat the Conscription, rasing riots aud threat
ening Civil War, are among the means re-
sorted to for this purpose In such crisis
an expectant Copperhead candidate for the
Presidency must not be backward He must
treason; and Of course he does.
We now call the attention Of the public
to certain facts which we collato from
the last "Annual Report of the Adju-
tant General of the State of New-York,"
made On the 3lst of last December, and com
muncated TO the Legislature on the 9th Of
January by Gov. Seymour. IL was made
and is signed by Thomas HillhOuse-a mOst
honorable aud upright citizen, late Senator.
From this Report We learn that Of the great
requistion made by the President on the
I'd of July, l-62, for Six Hundred Thousand
men Volunteers and Drafted MilitAa) to re-
enforce the National Armies, the quota re-
qured of this State was One Hundred and
Twenty Thousand.
This heavy draft was apportoned among the
several Counties and Townships according to
their respective Population as declared by the
last Federal Census (lSG0): 30 that there could
be no cavil az to the fairness Of the apportlon-
ment.
Under this call, our City was required to
furnish $3.50 men. She actually did furnish
6,63: leaving her deficiency no less than
Eighteen Thousand Fec Hundred and Tioenty-
three, or nearly tbree-fourtbs Of the whole
Dumber required of her.
All the other Counties of the State, includ-
ing Kings (Brooklyn), were required to furnish
"a, s35 men. They actually did furnish IS, $50
men, or only 9,446 less than were required Of
them. In other words: the defeieney in this
| Gin alone uas nearly double that in all the