Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-02-04

be country wgil be asfonI-fed tbs morning at
the encouragement that Mr LINCOLN has ordered
draft on the 10Th OF March next for a sufficient
numb q men To make bali million Ia ali.
counting the recently secur ed volunteers and &c
enlisiiug veterans
This call will occasion great disappointment in
such parts Of the country as have quite or almost
secured the 3 quota under the cali for three hun
dred thousand men. The mingled indecisiOn and
precipitancy OF the administration IN these con
tictng orders will di~ea every one At hrst
three hundred thousand men were called for
without reference 10 the veterans. Then il ass
provided that every enli~ting veteran should
count on the quota Of the district he was origi
nalv taken from Alter nearly every county in
the orth had put forth extra exertiOns - bill 10
their several compliments, We now have ala or
der for two hundred thousand more men SO
large draft al Hny time wuuld be serious tar
upon the resorces Of the country. but il will he
borne all the more unwiingly on account Of the
obvious bad faith OF the government from the
start
IL Is not probable that more than two hundred
thousand men have vet been raised under the
original call: ana in the month which Is vet 10
come filty Thousand will be the number, the
outside, uf the new recruits This will leave
quarter of million of men TO be secured by the
new draft II il is designed 10 secure that large
complement. from seven Ia eight hundred thou
sand men must be drawn, unless, Indeed, il IS the
intention OF the Administration TO throw out the
exemption fee, and cut off the various pleas by
which exemptions for disability have heretofore
been secured.
Upon the city Of New York this draft will
come with peculiar severity. On account OF the
singular nefIiciency OF Supervisor Blunt. who has
had the charge OF recruiting in this neighbour
hood: We have not Yet secured five thousand OF
the eighteen thousand required Of Us under the
call of October IL 1863 Under the new call
over thirty thousand men will be required from
the city of New York. and consequently five
siIths Of our quota will have 20 he drafted II
the Board of Supervisors are at all in earnest in
having New Hofk make credtable record. they
should put some competent person in Blunrs
place Ills conduct u the more repfehensible. as
instead of attending TO his sperit business. he
employs his clerks 10 write notices for The daily
papers declaring that the quota is rapidly being
filled, for the purpose of deceIying the cOmmu-
nity.
Ii Is very clear that recen; advices from the
South must have seriously alarmed the Admins
tration respecting the probabilities of the coming
spring campaign notwithstanding the accounts
which reach u from the Contederacy of the
shOrtHeSs OF supplies and the despair OF the mid
dle classes II i evident that 50 Tar as military
power Is concerned the rebellion has never been
stronger than il will be found 10 be when the
spring campaign opens. he rebel Generals
have i, much shorter line to defend. while their
armies are larger and better ctlculatel TO resist
the advancing forces of the Union. IL may ne
that all the hall million men who are called Tor
will be required. We think, Indeed they will be
needed but ii is dscredtable 10 the Admlni>tra-
ton that this was not foreseen months ago, be
fore il stulUed itself by calling for three humid
red thousand men, and giving out to the country
that the districts which raised the men volunta
rily would not be calle on for further sacrifices,
and then. after the money had been laid out aud
the various counties AID townships he willy taxeii
To secure volunteers, thar it should break faith
with the several localities, and make addi-
tonnl call. which was not expected and could not
have been provided for.
IL j. given out from Washington iustifica
ton that trouble is anticipated with France; but
this do not believe The situation of affairs
in Europe Is too serious for Napoleon to add to
his difficulties by gratLitous controversy with
this country.
1t is also limited that the exemption clause will
probably be stricken out OF the enrolment act
by Congress; but This doubtless is to stimulate
volunteering New York Werld.