, 1865-02-17
THE FAllAcIous ENROLMENT.

tHE EAAAAoAOV0 6nh9hkMEuEs
Provost Marshal James, LetteE-The Uaten-
! ability Of hfs Positlons---Ue Admits that
all the Aliens have been Enrollcd-.
sneeriss at the Injustice.
Caused By Himself.
Provost Marshal James attempts through the
columns OF an evening paper to explain and justify
hie "monstrous absnr11ty'' Of IN enrolment list
| whereby the people OF Chicago arc required to
furnish two or three thousand men in excess Of
their Just quota Not to do that officer wil1fal In
justice quote his explanation In his own words:
Tbs Tote Of district Ii Tot Just criterion BY
which judge of tho correctness Of the enrolment
e e asSs
ne sonssstEt,on, aet drafted s9d yst they cannot
stance ct sens hs7e entslsted 10 our city
5 ths IT. fo1f yeass e whom haze a
s1
n
cur Population, o citizens from other states VINO
~ the5 have been here one year. And agsln-lll
hsgs sfs s q M
are tn enyone. Then, ed to these tbs watt number
tse es ea
ny thty prove their aaeuaec before he Bohri. out
81 thep press .he isst sad st ssh,Tssa - 5sa
I'll ne1isrs sE5se eth e that ias vsts q the a..
correctness oi the enrolment"
We reply to the above,
1st- ne says thousands Of aliens hare emil.
gfa;ed to our city within four yeare, hundreds Of
whom have declared their Intentions" &c, BUTT
10 only thoee who hare declared their intentions
ns ne as a 1a1,s s TO- ys few few aens
Two or three hundred will embrace them all.
This makes Int small part Of the twelve OF this-
y Fft0 fNA 1f
citizens who are subject to drait. bus they can NOT
vote Until M In they heye been here year" Very
must he de1ucted from these new comets those
over Is and under 70; discharged soldiers not
liable to enrolment and The laSss PEI cent oi
remain IN the. city. But Marshal James
tTsnsicnt persons who remain in The city a lev
weeks or months in search Of work, and then 70
away; Int We never hear Of his carefully striking
their names of when they leave the city. He
Keeps on lis rolls three or tour thousand Of these
spurious names all the time.
Sd. He cites all youn5 men Eho hare arrived at
the age OF twenty who are subject to enroltrleut
hut cannot vote until they are tWenty-onc. But Of
these there can not te more thnn 1ve per cent as
compared with voters, and many among them are
4th. s'Then add to these, - says Mr. James, "ihe
" vast number Of aliens known to be in our city,
..aad ought 10 b enrolled dl they pr prove t their M
.4allenage before the Board, but which they fall
hto do, knowing that II drafted they can prove
1.-THE fact ana get discharged.''
tits here openly confessed th1t he has enrolled
the swsrming thousands Of unnatura1ized foreign
ers who hare cot declared their intentions to be-
sroas absurdity,' he has procured not less than
ten thousand names. He has gone over the city
with horse rake. and rakea them all INTO hfs
1S ne iii Eo and s e1psns Ct
and trouble Of appearing before his Board" with
afidayits and proofs Of allsna4e, and dancing At;
waiting 70 cet in their testimony: ana taking their
chances oi being rejected in the eud-the more
especially rs they well know they cannot be: held
tsys this vast mass Of persons are and ought to
be enrolled" Yes, hs has. put down all their
nnmcs. Thousands Of them are transient aliens,
who remained In the city long enough to get en-
rolled. and are nov gone, never intending to rc-
turn.
II required Of him to rclzc the names Of all the
soldiers to make up tie monstrous number Of
sl,Qoa in Chicago. Suppose the President should
make eall e. nsst<, e, this city you'd be required
that there are NOT TO exceed 1900 men who are
liable to military duty undes the law, and one
geon'e certificates. This shows the absurd char
Acter Of the enrolment After perpe1adng this
outrage on our cl'fzens, Mr.. James aneefipgly
CT against The enrolment lists thst th.re is now and
osssls.s ssssT1.ons M made 1ha. y could
!isy11g t4es2 a.,eEions ealea public @sstlnEs and
supplies s;eh A., Ts1d % =;
q and
~ efch soes and ss. Tetks of psssyens and
0: what It wae Nhen thoI commenced"
The meaning Of which is, that while the c'd-
zena. e9pnittees we're At work puEsing AbenFoll-
his deputies around the city making up fresh 1ists
Of aliens and transient citizens, boys between
seventeen and twenty, and men between forty-lye
and flty+ nId also enrolling man at his resi-.
dencc or boarding houee, In one ward, and tho
same man at his office OF Workshop In some other
ward.
fahgable labor Of the Committees the list grew
one hundred larger! We we'll remember the di.-
gust I'D d5ssouragement this conduct ot ,he Pro
They sew that their work WAS whol!y useless, be-
csuse as fast as they pulled out The weeis he re-
Eo: il, rom The WaT Department iorsld* MIN a to
make exemptions from The cnrollmeut, while his
other nsttuctions require him to enroll nliens en-
Justice to him to admit that he has followed his
"tnstrQcdons to the letter, and thereby has en-
rolled forty i've men IN every hundred who arc
exempt from military service. The remaining
Eetsons are required to furnish the quota OF hun
dred men. And this Is the sole reison why CHI
cago Is behind on her qnota, =tand1ng she
has furnished more men than any other district in
the state except one, IN proportion 10 legal voters
Or population. We submit, TOO, th.t II the.c be
LnpLdlu J1s1cS' lQEuMCQ0u9. Lney nfa contrary 10
the Law, which enacfs {Sec- l. Act March 8, l583)
that the enrolling officers shall "enrolt ali per
kons liable to military duty" md does not order
the enrolment Of those not liable, but On the con
tsary provides thnl II euch shall have been en-
rolled, their names shall be sducL from the lists
on proof beng furnished.
Captain James concludes hta letter In these con.
eo1lng words?
"GeQt!emeu, there Is bnt waJ to ffce the quota
ard t1At Is by providing tile II cannot be done
bF decs51nE The enrolment lIsts tbe done by
htgEln. reduction Of the QUOTA TAls IVES tried i
the last urAft and ne Eucceedtd in oat9ung
tt1n Of my ner cent. Init IT vas only patunE ol the
onr saots On the ea i5r sootoo men, making io:si
Of 5.2e9 In place Of about s. 0Qo."
Then there IL no relief from the 'smorstrou. Gu
rollment." IS the journal justly denomtnatcs it.
The people must face the music on their double
quota. They must stand their quots under the
present call, computed on confessedly gross en-
tollment and mike mp the deficits on past calls
deficits caused BY the tnonstzous cnrollnents of
1e6S and 1si. Perhaps he is right. Perhaps there
il no remedy or relief fur this wicked Injustice
done our people. Bnt 1t Is Singular that in no
other district in the United States are the people
called On to furnish forty to forty-tIye
per cent more men than their just quota.
In no other tfstrictn the United States arc i3ooo
citizens lfable to CONSUMPTION, assessed in nddi-
non TO their own number on 49, 900 aliens. tran.
s:ent pefecnF, infrn men and exempt soldiers, as
IL the case in the Chicago district, who are re.
quired to make good not only the excess for this
but the two past yeNE, based on like false and
Improper enrolment.