Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-02-13
The Draft-.-Resfstance fnsinuated.


The New York World is disposed to
incite mobs again in that city. Its text
is the recent call of the President for
100000 more to be drafted troops, if not
fJrthcoming as volunteers. 1t says:
Upon the city of New York this draft
will come with peculiar severity Onac-
count Of the singular inefficiency of Su-
pervisor Blunt, who has had the charge
of recruiting in the .neighborhood, we
have not yet secured five thousand of,the
eighteen thousand required of us under
the call of October II, 1863 Under the
new call over= thirty thousand men will
be required from the city of New York,
and consequently fve-sixths of our quota
will have to be drafted IF the Board of
Superviors are at all in earnest in hav-
ing New Y York make creditable record,
they should pat some competent person
in Blunts place. His conduct is the
more reprehensible, as instead of attend
ing to his special business, he employs
his clerks to write notices for the daily
papers declaring that the quota is rapid
ly being filed, for the purpose Of decelv-
ing the community.
The abuse of Mr.. Blunt, because the
people would not volunteer, is decidedly
funny. 1t is as though the papers here
should denounce Marshal Hynes because
he did not secure our county's quota of
volunteers The trouble with the City of
New York is, it is essentially Democrat
ic-the Democracy being Of the " Pher-
nandiwnd stripe. The Democrats
there, read the World and the News J;
and,5 consequently, regard the war as
"Lincoln's War;" an Abolition Cru
sadeT Niger Fight, and have re-
fused to yolunteer Nothing short Of the
draft viii bring them out.
But while the World is prudent and care
ful in scattering its poison, the NcsCs, Ben
Woods paper, is as venomnous as arat-
tle-snake in dog-days. The NeWs snorts
and foams, and, to all intents and pur-
poses, urges thepeople to resist the draft
Hear what it says (
The time has come, fully come, we
are deeply and.painfully convinced, when
appeals should be made directly to the
people in behalf of the vital doctrine OF
State j, Sovereignty Experience has
tanght US that danger to liberty is lessto
be apprehended from the abuse of power
By State Governments than from en-
croachments by the Federal Government
upon the sovereignty of States. State
sovereignty should be guarded by us no
less jealously than liberty itself Our
only hope for its preservation rests now
we have-been most reluctantly driven
to this conclusion-in the prompt and
energetic Intervention Of the people.
Seey further, how it talks to the Legis
lature and Governor Seymour-its owr
Horatio:
"Your Legislature is wholly given up
to its miserable wrangles for pelf and
power. Perhaps tits even ready to be
tray your trust, and waits-to obseqni
ously bend the knee at the first appear
ance=of some Federal satrap Youl
Governor sleeps at his post. Mol worse
than that-sadder than that-yeur trust
ed Seymour, he to owhom all eyes were
turned, on-whom all hopes were placed
seems to have chosen the ignoble part t.
Live coward in his own estoem,
Letting Il dars nOt' wait upon I would
Trust no longer in him.
"And our Senators, representing New
York in the United States Congress
Place no reliance, on theml They, il
>our finely devised system Of Fedora
! Government, were constituted the espe
cial representatives of State Sovereignty
But your, Senators have forgotten, or ar,
betraying, the trust confded to them.
off you would live, freemen of tn,
Sovereign State of New York, freemel
of New York! you must arise and saw
yourselves.
And againe :
"Men of New York If you voul
maintain the dignity of your State, an
preserve it's sovereignty unimparec
awake and see to itE Organize! Ca
mass meetingsl Discuss Pass resolr
lutions Eve mean instructions to you
Governor and Legislature, warning ther
that the Republic is in danger and the
must take care that no harm comes to i
Hold them to their responsibility. Bea
upon them with an irresistible pressur
of public opinion And, lest all theG
should fail, arm p