Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1864-01-06
From the New York Daily News1
THE SECOND CONsCRIPTION
SHALL WE HAVE A THIRDP


The second Conscription will soon be
upon us. Those of our citizens over the
age Of twenty and under that of forty-fve, |
who have not been blessed by fortune
with the three hundred dollars which is
to secure them from a forciblo conscrip-
tion, are already trembling lest fortunes |
tickle wheel may turn up their names |
and thus force them into the army to do !
battle, not against foreign foe, but
their own coUntrymen.
We were promised peace within sixty
days after the war commenced then the !
time was prolonged to ninety hen to six
months and then within year it would
certainly close. Enlistments then were
made for three years or the war, and to
fill the more than thrice decimated ranks
of these three years. or the war men, the
first draft was bad, and now we are soon
to have the second Of the series These
new conscripts are to serve for three years
unless the war sooner close, and, if Aboli-
tion holds rule, and contractors have their
way, he who enlists OF is drafted for the
war, will die Of old age, if he escape death
in other forms, long efore peace is res
tored. The thirty year. war in Europe
will find parallel in the more than thir-
years war in America, and the child as
yet unborn will be liable to the draft, if
others than those who make fortunes by
the war do not step in ard close it by res
toring peace to our distracted country.
Those who wish to put an end to this
state of things,to bring back peace with all
its blessings to the country are denounced
as Copperheads. as sccesh in their feel
ings, and as traitors in their hearts, by
the very men who are engaged in plum
dering the soldier Of his hard earned pay
and in swindling the Government by his
shoddy contracts, and who now urge on a
conscription which separates from his wife
and little ones the husband, who has not
the Government price paid to free each
negro in the District of Columbia, TO pay
for his freedom from a forced draft to serve
in the army.
The second draft will soon be upon us.
The names Of all liable to serve, are now
in the hands of the Provost Marshal and
his colleagues, and wives tremble lest
their only support and that of their chill
dren be rudely taken from them, and
they confined, like criminals, in an island
fortress, until, surrounded by a guard,
they are sent South to do battle and offer
their lives that some General may get
glory, and some Abolition contractor make
money out of their blood and their
services. As sure as the day Of the sec
ond draft arrives, so will the third, and
the fourth, and the fifth, be upon Us, un-
less others than those now in power save
the country from ruin and the people
from slaughter. 1t can be done by the
people demanding in thunder tones an
honorable peace, for they would submit
to none other.
The war has now ragged with violence
for near three years. In that time what
what has been accomplished? Mr.. Lin
coin said, at its commencement, there
was a Union feeling in all the Southern
States; now the South is more united
than was the people of the United States
during the Revolution which gave US a.
a place among the nations Of the earth
Much as we may boast Of our victories over
the South, the Southern men can boast
with equal truth of their victories over US.
In all our boast and in all our pride, the
great fact that, at the close of the thirty
threemonths of war, with the largest AZ
mics the world has ever seen since the
days Of Xerxes, supplied and paid at au
estimated cost Of three million dollars per
day, the great capitol Of the Republic is
still in danger from the Southern Army
and that not at a single moment has i'll
been deemed entirely safe from capture,
admonishes Us that the war has been far
from a success, and that the hundreds of
thousands Of brave men who sleep on the
many battle-felds or lie in bitches in the
hospital graveyards, have spilled their
blood and offered up their lives in vain.
This day, as the war is now conducted, it
seems father from a close than the day
President Lincoln called to the field sew
enty-fiye thousand men to crush the Re
bellion. Then it was a war to re-possess
the forts and other property Of the nation,
now it is conducted to devastate the South
+ and to free the negro.
=. Why then not put stop to it? Because
it does not suit the purposes of the party
. in power. All the efforts made have been
rendered abortive by the Administration
and by the Abolition pressure which con
= trols it. Close the war and government
contracts must clOse and colonalv r,o,,.,