Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-08-15

The Judge Advocate General Of New York,
IN . report to the Governor upon the Irregular.
tiss Of the enrolment 10 that State. proves NOS,
eoneiusively that the grossest partisan favor
i'ism vss practised. Taking The vote Of 1850
as the basis. the foIlo~ing facts are developed:
10 nineteen LfSootx congressional districts the
total vote In that year vas 457 .o57, and from
tbose districts 30 SAG conserip,s are required 10
nine anti LrscoIS districts the total vote vas
$50 300. and 1920 consrripss were required.
Bot IN show the upfsirness Of the conscription
more plainly. the following comparison Is made
upon the basis Of the vote Of 1859 In twelve
srrsorE districts the total vote was ls6 .255.
and from those districts 40.257 con-
conscrip's are required. In sixteen Wtps-
WORTH districts with q total vote If 353. 62l. only
33.O6e conscripts sire required. IL was these
grosf inequalities in the consumption IN New York
which called forth the recent correspondence be-
tween Governor sEYxorR and President LrSooLS.
and 10 Is not surprising. in view Of them. that the
former in his letter OF August {. remarked 20 the
latter. You 1.-THE President) cannot and will not
fail to right these gross wrongs" And is there
no remedy for these outrages7 Is it 70 be e1-
pected that people will remain quiet with these
evidences Of the partisan character Of the enroll
mentl Gov. srYxoun most forcibly responds to
the Presidents apology for these gross wrongs.
He saws.
You say that I'VE are contending with an en-
emv who. as you understand, drive IS every able
bodied man be can reach into the ranks. very
much a. q butcher drives bullocks into a slaugh-
ter pen" You will agree with M that even this.
impartialiy done to all classes. is more tolerable
than any scheme which shall fraudulently force a
portion Of the community into the military SER
vice by a 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 CONSUMPTION act.
Governor Seymour holds that il ia unconstitu-
tional. lt IL. however. constitutional enough to
come within the strict letter of the fundamental
law: but - one Of the most odiOus enactments
that over was passed in any country-free or
despotic-a law that could not to day be passed
m England, whence We have borrowed our
laws and nstitutions-which 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 an intolersble law
have been carried in Parliament. The attempt
20 impose similar laws upon the English people
resulted IN the ovcrthrow of the Stuarts, aud a
series of terrible civil wars. which lasted for fifty
years. resulting at last in the triumph of liberty
aud the overthrow Of despotism. So foreign Is
the idea OF "A compulsory service in war 10 the
genius of the Anglo Saxon race, and the %insti,u-
tons which il has adopted. that there was no word
in the English language which signifies conserip-
ton. this term being an importation of recent
date.