East Saginaw courier., 1864-03-09
Che q onrier.
The Enterprise on Government''
Management in Michigan.

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Management in Michigan.
Tho following article from the gov
eminent organ in this city is truthful
AMI just and coming from such. a
source is Of course Intensely loyal
We co:n.nsad it to the attention Of al
classes Of readers:
BY the lntcst military ordor Of Col.
Is. ii. Hill, deputy Provost Marshal
for this State, it appears that all on
listed mon to be credited to the sew
oral sub-districts and towns must have
been mustered on or before that day;
and that all credits on un6llod quotas
were then TO cease, and the largo
bounties to be stopped.
We do not understand the reason
for this. Are tho military authorities
determined that there shall be draft
at any rate ? Are they anxious to shut
out volunteers, and force unwilling
conscripts into the service? The peo-
PIE had expected the full time, until
the 10th of March, in which to fill up
their quotas; and had volunteering
been continued and encouraged, most
OF all of the deficiencies would have
been supplied, and the men would
have been in the army some weeks
sooner than those obtained by draft ;
ior the lator will require some time
after the 10th to get ready. The
whole business of raising recruits un-
dor the late call has been managed in
a way to make its burdens the most
oppressive and produce tho most irri-
tation in the minds of the people,
Witness the outrageous injustice Of
allowing enrolled men to enlist and be
credited to any locality they pleased.
These enrolled men form portion of
the number upon which the appor-
tionment to their respective towns or
wards is based and whenever any of
them are withdrawn therefrom, it in
creases to that extent the burdens of
the remainder. Veterans re-enlisting
may be credited, if they choose, to
other localities than that where their
homes are, and where, perhaps, their
families have remained and been sup
ported. Detroit; ana pilces similarly
situated, whore these orders are first
known, and where money can be
quickly and easily raised, can take ad-
vantage Of their less fortunate neig-
bors, by being first in the Market
Scarcely returned soldier has been
through Detroit, on his way to his
home in the interior, without being
solicited to sell out to that city, and
thereby deprive his own locality OF
their rights. We admit that, i'll the
case OF rc-enlisted soldiers, they should
have an opportunity of securing their
bountics somewhere else if their own
town or ward does not pay it. But
reasonable time should be given for
the bounty to be raised before they
are credited over to another locality.
The order that no credit shall be
changed is especially unjust to men
enlisting in the field for if tho sub
districts to which they are credited re-
fuse to pay the local bounty, as some
have done, in such cases, and in all
ether cases whore there ie sood reason
TO be brief, we do not see how any
set of orders could have been devised
to make the last call moro severely
folt by the people, and more unpleas-
ant in its execution. We do not pre-
tend to say who is to blame in this
matter-whether Col. Hill or Provost
Marshal General Fry, at Washington
or the War Department. We only
know that these affairs are wretchedly
managed, and that somebody is per-
petrating an immense amount of blum
dering or favoritism, and inhicting
unnecessary injustice and hardship.
LATER--Snce writing the ADORE,
wo arc informed that veterans re-en-
listing are not to be credited anywhere.
We think there mast be some mistake
about this. Local bounties have very
generally beon paid to veterans, in ac-
cordanee with previous orders allow
ing them to be credited.
Another circular pom Col. Hills
Office states that "volunteers mustered
between the 1st and 10th of March
will be deducted after the draft COM
mences." The orders and circulars
contradict and repeal each other in
such rapid succession, that it is very
difficult for anybody to know what is
to be done.