The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1864-02-06
HALF 4 MILLION MORE!

The President has given notice, by an
order dated last Sunday, that unless 100000
men more enlist by volunteering under
| The present arrangement by the 10th of
| March, the deficit of that number will
Immediately be drafted.
! The order reads as if the 5O0,O00 are IN
addition to the late call for 100000 men,
but we observe that both at Washington
and Springfield the order is construed to
mean but 100000 in addition to the late
call for 100000
| In this view, Illinois will have her quota
of 100000 men to make up after deduct>
! Ing credits as per last settlement" That
| last settlement was in June last, when H.,
had acredit of S, l51 excess on previous calls,
10 which have since been added 4,4o5 en-
| listed in Missouri. Our whole quota, uh'
der a call for 500 900 men would be 4o,ooo.
Deduct from this the above credits, leaves
34.OI6 to be raised by Illinois frcm June
last to the 10th of next month
OF this number, from present appear
ances not over 10000 men will be raised
by enlistment, SO that it is pretty evident,
unless we get credit for old regiments re-
enlistlng, about which there is great doubt,
Illinois will have to submit in March next
to the humiliation of draft for some
twelve or fourteen thousa nd men. This
would be about thousand to a Congress
ional district, or say 400 to La Sale county,
if it was apportioned evenly all over the
State. But this will certainly not be the
case. Many counties have already Tiled
their quotas under both calls, while others
are largely in arrears. La Sale county
would probably stand pretty fair had she
not lost most of her recruits during the
last month through the bupglng action of
cur Supervisors We think there is no
doubt but cur people must nerve them
selves for pretty heavy draft.
To such of our people, however, to
whom this impending draft appears to be
a matter of dread there is this great con-
ISOLATION to offer. Didn't Gov. Andrew and
Gov. Yates, and Gov. Blair and in fact all
the abolition leaders year or two ago
promise that if the President would cease
TO wage the war simply for the mainte-
nance of the constitution and the retoIa>
ton of the Union. but would change it in
to war for the destruction of slavery, so
that We could have God and humanity
on our side there SHOULD be no more
lacking of volunteers-that the roads
should swarm with them, and that like
flaming giants" they should leap out of
the ground" not only 100000, but three
times 300050?' And as the President
has complied with all their demands, and
ased to regard the constitution, and gone
purely into the &" God and humanity" busl-
ness, OF course these leaping giants and
swarnling roads will greet our gladdened
eyes forthwith Certainly they will As
the interests Of " God and humanity" can
only be promoted by fighting, Is it con-
ceiyable that the hundred thousand Union
Leaguers of this state, for instance, will
hesitate for a moment, now that the Pre-
sident has summoned them, to leap into
the fght?' OF course not They will
never prove false to such solemn pledges.
Let not the draft then trouble any one
the friends of God ard humanity" will
attend to that