Indiana State sentinel., 1863-08-17
The Draft in New YORK.

The Judge Advocate General of New York,
In a report 20 the Governor upon the irregulari-
ties of the enrolment in that State. proves most
conclusively that the grossest partisan favor
itism was practised. Taking the vote of 1850
as the basis, the following facts are developed:
In nineteen LrScuLs congressional districts the
total vote in that year was 457 .237. and from
those districts 80 sac couscripts are required In
nine anti LINCOLN districts the total vote was
$50. 300. and 1929 consrripis were required.
But TO show the unfairness of the conscription
more plainly, the following comparison is made
upon the basis of the vote of 1862 In twelve
SEYMOUR districts the total vote was l66 ,255,
and from those districts 40,2s7 con-
conscripts are required In sixteen WADs-
WORTH districts with total vote of 353 Sol. only
33065 conscripis are required. 1t was these
gross inequalities in the conscription in New York
tween Governor SEYMOUR and President LINCOLN,
and it is not surprising. in view of them that the
former in his letter of August 3. remarked TO the
latter, you (the Presdent) cannot and will not
fill to right these gross wrongs" And is there
no remedy for these outrasesf Is il TO be ex-
pected that people will remain quiet with these
evidences Of the partisan character of the enroll
mentf Gov. SEYMOUR most forcibly responds to
the Presidents apology for these gross wrongs.
He says:
You saw that I'VE are contending with an en-
emv who. as You understand, drives every able.
bodied man he can reach into the ranks. very
much az hutcher drives bullocks into a slaugh-
ter pen" You will agree with me that even this.
impartially d0ne to all classes is more tolerable
than any scheme which shall fraudulently force a
portion Of the community into the military SER
vice by dishonest perversion of law.
In this connection We quote the comments Of
the New York Herald upon the discussion be-
tween Governor SEYMOUR and the President.
which but expresses the common sentiment Of
the country in regard to the odiousness of forced
military service such as is contemplated by the
conscript law:
The bone Of contention is the conscripton act.
Governor Seymour holds that il is unconstitu
tioual. IL is, however, constitutional enough TO
come within the strict letter oil the fundamental
law; but is one of the most odious enactments
that ever was passed in any country-free or
despotic-a law that could not to day be passed
in England, whence we have borrowed our
laws and institutons-whichc could not have been
passed in that country for the last one hundred
and fifty years. Not since the DAYS Of TudOrs
and Plantagenets could such intOlerable law
have been carried in Parliament. The attempt
to impose similar laws upon the English people
resulted in the overthrow of the Stuarts. and a
series of terrible civil wars. which lasted for fifty
years. resulting at last in the triumph of liberty
and the overthrow of despotism- So foreign is
the idea Of compulsory service in to the
genius Of the Anglo Saxon race, and the institu-
tions which it has adopted. that there was no word
la the English language which signifies conscrp.
ton. this term being an importation of recent
date