Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-10-02
Another Braft Ordesed-ursuit OF
the glrst ConscrIPtIon.


The telegraph announces that another draft Is
{, 20 be ordered The first conscrip,ion. 20 far as
men 10 concerned. proved failure. Three hun
q dred thousand men we're ordered but the draft
doe- not produce over City thousand soldiers.
\ The govern ment. however. receives about seven
" i've millions Of dollars for exemptions In
In ,ncia point Of view the first conscription has
proved a success The new CONSUMPTION. IL Is
announced. will be for sir hundred thousand
men. The government officials calculate that
th. call will yield one third. or hundred thou
I s,nd soldiers II 30. four hundred thousand
= e,nscript- will have TO pay the exemption. which
will Weld 20 the government q revenue OF one
, hundred and twenty millions of dollars. II il
the object Of the government officials to raise
I men or money!
The Boston Advertiser. In expressing It's regret
I az the failure of the first conscripton to supply
men 10 the armies. puts the blame OF the failure
no, upon the imperiectons of the law. or the in
efficiency Of the officers Of the Government. but
upon the unfortunate copperheads IL seems.
according TO the Advertisers theory, that the
clamors of these people have helped to swell the
list Of exemptions and have thwarted the efforts
of the War Department obtsin men. II this
Is 30, Massachusetts, must fairly swarm with
4 copperheads. for no State has contributed few
men as the Old Bay State in proportion to the
Number offs inhabitants. Twenty four hundred
men are reported to be all the recruits raised in
thar State. On the other hand. in New Jersey.
swhere "copperheads" are in a large majority.
over FIVE thousand men have been raised. but il
has been 10y volunteering.
IL 10 clear the Advertisers theory won't bold
.water. The draft has failed even more completes
In Administration localities than in "copperhead
districts, so the trouble must be with the law
itself. Its machinery must be defective. or else
il is not suited to the genius of our people
7 Let US take the case of Rhode Island. for in
stance. This il a strong Administration State,
and being the first one in which the draft was
enforced. the adverse criticism upon the law. OF
which the Advertiser complains. could not have
Ahad any effect Well. what was the result OF
1.-The draft in tha, S,a,eY The whole number
ldr.fted was 4, 400 OF these only los were held
Ifor service M drafted men, and SIS procured sub
:stituies Rhode Island will therefore. supply
barely one regiment to the army under the draft
Sand Of that regiment oul, about company viii
5be con-crpts. all the rest being volunteer sub
tstitutes
II the proportion OF Rhode Island holds COOS
all over the North-the securing of one man il
four aud half drawn-not much more shan on'
hundred thousand men will be secured OF the lou
hundred and 6hy thousand t was originally in
Yteuded to draw from the whole North. But th
ecriginal programme has been departed from
sThete is to be no draft in either Ohio lndiani
sor Illinois. while the proportion Of men secured
10 Ear greater in Rhode Island than in some OF tn
other States. a. for instance Massachusetts,
where about one in eight il the proportion W
Sdouht therefore. whether the Government vii
Nre,ll, secure more than 81 .00O reliable men un
yder the operations OF the draft We doubt If tn
ely of New York will contribute 5000 men
that IL o. say about one in six drawn. We con
lcluie therefore that the draft will supply some
him. over $4,000 men for our armies. of whic
Full - 900 will oe volunteer substitutes.