Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-08-29

Immediately order draft for one year to hll
such quota. or any part thereof which may be
untitled. and in case OF any such draft. 10 pay
ment q money shall be accepted. or received by
the government As Communication 70 release any
enrolled or drafted man, from personal obliga-
tioo to perform military service F"
The discretion OF the President is limited 20
the time Of the call. the term Of service. aud
the number Of men. In all else he Is directed
BY the act IL bis discretion IL unlimited. the
law imposes on hon nothing Of obligations. and
10 consequently mere surpinsage. He cannot call
upon whom he pssases and 10 any manner be
please. because the Law afhres conditions 20 the
call Those conditions are:
First. That the volunteers or substitutes shall
be credited to the subdivisions toward the quotas
OF which they may have volunteered or engaged
az substitutes"
Second. That in case the quotas are not filed
in fifty days alter the CALL the President shall or
der a draft
There are localities free from the draft be
cause OF excess OF quotas under former calls
The President must therefore call upon those
subdivisions, named in the law. which are liable
TO furnish quotas.
II is to these the credits are to be given pro
vided for in the first condition.
The subdivisions not liable 10 the draft have
no quotas and consequently cannot receive the
credits provided for.
The trainers Of the Law did not contemplate
that localities not subjec. to the draft would
voluntarily become so, snd furnish volunteers
and substitutes 10 be credited on quotas arising
under future calls. The credits are 20 be given
on quotas under calls as they are made.
The quotas must be assigned when the calls
are made TO determine who liable and the
extent Of the liability.
If the quotas are not assigned when the Gale
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DAYS IN which TO ell them ii draft ia ordered
within that time from the date of the call; be
cause, until the quotas are assigned, they do not
know whether they are liable 70 furnish any
men, and if any. what number.
party is not given a specified time in which
to perform an act unless he is informed of his liza
bility and the act itself il defined and the period
for performance Is given.
From these considerations il il plain that the
President cannot call in any manner he may
choose and upon any parties be may choose. He
may call when he may choose, and for any mum
Der, but he must call upon those who are liable
to furnish1 the men, and in such manner as
legally TO notify them of the fact They are not
thus notified when he issues proclamation
simply announcing that he calls for FIVE
hundred thousand men, and addresses il to no
party or thing in the world.
Chicago was not notified by the Presiintse
CALL because nine-tenths OF her citizens did not
believe, prior to the assignment of the quota,
that the call reached her. They do not believe
now j. reaches her fairly, and do not to-day know
whether she is called on for one or five thousand.
Is il not absurd to say. under such circumstan-
ces, that on the 9Th of September she will have
been legally notified for fifty days that she had a
quota TO fill Will those who aver that we ad
wise resistance to draft cease from such twad
die and demagogsm. and answer our PROPOSE
tons in regular order? If we are mistaken. we
wish to be corrected. If are not mistaken,
will the proper authorities comply with the law
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