The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-08-20

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\ .su Wednesday,, AW1wst ~.
~ The Last .mare's nest discovered by
j His Excsllency, tho New York Horatio, Is
the inequality Of the enrolment in the New
York and Brooklyn districts. He nnda
! IL quotas Ia these larger than elsewhere,
; ard forthwith he sets ups howl about their
injustice. He can't account for this, or
rather he il glad Of . pretsnse for making
.. new assault upon the Government and
II officers, and fAnning the passions Of his
: gaping and cowardly follower he can
8 manage to incite nsw riot, then DO doub,
this miserable scoundrel would be exceed.
lngly delighted.
What are the factsf The enrolment in
stAe two cities h probably the most accurate
az any In the country. Mems names are
not only put down on the rolls, but In ev.
cry case his exact place of residence, the
actual street and number. It has to b.
more definite there than elsewhere, for 9th
J erwise no man could be found. It follows
s that for every name on the rolls there is q
man, with an exact location. No doubt
there are some names on the rolls that
: should DO struck Of, q there will be every.
: where. But these are there generally
because those who are required to give
true information have failed to give IL cor
rectly or have given none 1t al. And
IL they have remained there. It 10 aimply
because the persons interested do not take
the pains to have them struck Oh. The
law provides for the correction Of the rolls.
II those directly Interested will not take
the pains to assist In making them correct,
! Why should Governor Seymour trouble
q himself about IT. Il u none Of hin busi-
mess in any way. His meddling with It u
matter Of mere impertinence and inso-
lent presumption. II hs were to NEEDLE
with any private matter with - little apol-
! ogy, he would probably ct kicked for his
pains, and he deserves infinitely more in
this instance. II
But thsre ia good and Sufficient reason
Why the quotas Of these districts should be
much larger than those Of others. That il
The fact that the population his increased
there since the war broke out beyond all
former precedent, and that increase has
been mainly Of men who are within the
enrolling ages" We have been told for a
year or two past that every house is occu-
pied, that there are none to rent, that ho-
tells, boarding and Lodging houses, in fact,
every possible shelter for man, are notonly
full but overcrowded. That thi3'is 30 me-
cessarily We all know. New York and
Brooklyn are the points whore there has
been the greatest demand for every de-
scription Of mechanical labor, and their
mechanics have gone in huge crowds to
supply ths demand. The mere tmcreose Of
the number employed In building vessels
for the Government, with their families,
would probably people half dozen cities
like Burlington. And the increase in q
dozen other branches of industry il no
doubt equally as great. And it IS mostly
the young and middle aged men who have
constituted the enormous Influx Of people
and who Of course contribute to increase
The number liable to draft. And this has
. double operation too. 1t not only adds
70 the number liable to enrolment in these
cities, but It diminishes the number in the
country districts, whence they came.
a The wise Horatio sees nothing Of all this,
because hs Il determined not to see it,
There - chance to 'smake rumpus,"
and with eommendable alacrity he goes
about making Il. We are glad that this
time he gets . rebuff. II the enrolment is
not perfect there il = way to make It 90,
and that way ID open to those interested.
Instead Of the quota being too great we
have no doubt 1t IL actually less than it
should b, for there - greater proportion
Of people there that no one can put their
finger on than anywhere else. II these
were al enrolled and every one improper
- enrolled struck on the number would
Y BE- increased not lessened. Seymour ig-
nores al the essential facts simply that he
may show his Copperheadism. That's all.
Z There - no danger that too many men viii
Be- asked Of New York and Brooklyn. The
danger Il entirely the other way.
- The Copperheads either desire the
Y rebellion to succeed or they do not. They
must b on one side Of that issue or the
other. lfthey have any desire put it down,
they would do somstAia0 towards putting