The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1864-07-09
FOR PRESIDENT,
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
OF ILLINOIS.
FOR vICE.PRESIDENT,
ANDREW JOHNSON,
OF TENNESSEE.
No Communication Hereafter,
OF EssEE.

The bill for enrolling and calling out the
national forces was settled by Congress
| before its adjournment. It provides that
fifty days shall be allowed for filling the
quota by volunteering, after the call has been
made by the President. The bounties to
volunteers by the government are 5000 for
one year, $500 for two years. and $500 for
three years. Volunteers only will receive
| the bounty drafted men, or substitutes, are
only to get regular pay and allowances
The drafted man cannot pay communication
money as heretofore, and unless he can get
q substitute he must serve.
This bill is intended to stimulate volun.
teering, and for that purpose is more striu-
gent than the old enrolment law. 1t with.
draws all hope from the drafted man. I'm
der the three hundred dollar exemption
clause, every man whose means enabled him
to raise $500, gave himself no uneasiness :
if the chances Of the draft were against him
he could pay the Communication and escape
service. After man is drawn, i. is true he
may obtain q substitute, but the price is
likely to BE very high. Anybody can volun.
teer, but only certain persons can serve as
substitutes, which will go very far toward
enhancing the price Of that article The
principle is established that no man who is
liable to the draft can be a substitute. -
Aliens, soldiers who have served two years
and been honorably discharged, men over
fnrf ~. Hya r., Ill
will accept, and all those between sixteen
and eighteen years Of age, are about all that
can be accepted as substitutes.
Now, in view of theae facts, it is manifest
to all, the Importance of making concerted
movement towards raising the quota for this
county under the next call. By all the indi-
cations that call will be made within the
present month, and it will be for at least,
400, 900, and, perhaps, for 500, 900 men for
one year,-for, although man may volun.
teer for three years, the law empowers the
President to order draft for one year. If
the call should be for 300, 600 men. the quota
for our county will be about three hundred.
This may not be correct estimate, but it is
an approximation sufficient to show the peo-
pie what work is before them and the time
allotted to perform it in, is, perhaps, about
sixty days. Each District will be required
TO make up its own quota, and no time should
be lost before committees are organized, and
the people in each District solicited to con.
tribute to general fund, which, added to
the government bounty and the local boun
ties, which every county will assess for that
purpose, sufficient amount of money can
soon be raised, in every District, to fill the
county's quota by volunteers. Every labor.
ing man can give something-$5, $40, or SIS
to this volunteer fund, and then he can either
volunteer and receive the large bounty, or
rest contentedly that he is free If, how
ever, his parsmony should persuade him
that he is not able to contribute to the gen.
eral fund, let him beware for if the draft
is made his lot is almost certain to be that
of the "bold soldier boy" Those who are
not subject to the draft should as freely con.
tribute to aid in the business as those who
are. If any think of escape by deserving
their homes and county, the probability is
that they will be DISTINGUISHED by the next
Legislature, and their property, if they have
any, confscated. Besides the expense of
escaping, together with the anexicty and
uncertainty Of a voluntary exile, would many
times outweigh the loss or Inconvenience
necessary to raise by volunteering the coun-
tvs quota. Property holders should par
ticularly interest themselves in making up
this quota. for even though many, perhaps
the majority of them, are exempted by age,
and other causes, yet it were infinitely better
for them to give their entire profits for
year, than have their business suddenly and
violently interrupted by draft which takes
without distinction, the business man and
the idler. The former would rather pay a
thousand dollars to the latter to take his
place in the ranks, than by his compulsory
withdrawal from ithave his business knocked
into "pie." 1t is not the danger of battle
and the privations Of camp life that deter
men from taking their places in the ranks,
so much as the interruption Of their bust
ness.
And now We have said enough, in fact all
that belongs to the subject which is import
ant to know. Every man who reads this arti-
Gle will understand that so sure as the sun
will rise tomorrow, so sure will this county
be required to raise at least 800 men very
shortly, and the work which interests every
man, woman and child, is to consult each
other and 60 to work mutually to raise that
number by volunteering