Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1865-04-14

TIE NEW ASSIGNMENTS OF QUoTAs.-EDI-
ToRs LEADER: The 18th Congressional
District of Ohio has already under the
present call for 800, 900 men, been subject
ed to three assignments of quotas among the
various sub-districts and as we are in
formed by the Provost Marshal, orders
have been received TO make the fourth as
signment. In no other district in the
United States have the people been sub
iectsd to such needless annoyance, and the
tinkering of quotas here has had no other
effect than TO bring the whole system into
contempt. This last order is we'll under
stood to have been obtained for the express
purpose of relieving few wards of the city
Of Cleveland Of portion of their quotas.
As there is no diminution of the number of
men to be raised by the district, the num-
Der of men taken off from these favored
wards must be made up by the various
towns in the country. A few figures will
show the gross injustice of the entire pro-
cseding.
This district is called upon for l ,236 men,
and before the receipt of the last order,
has mustered into the service about 500.
At the time of the issuing of the order re-
cruits were being mustered in quite rapid
| ly, all laboring to avoid draft. Since then
| recruiting has substantially ceased. There
are Sc sub-districts in the district. Of these
81 had already filed their quotas. Ofthe
| remaining 25 sub districts there were TO-
having only from 2 to men each, or 81 in.
all, to raise. These sub-districts had the
4 nd
in filing their respective quotas, and
would have filed them before the present,
but for the unfortunate order for a new as
signment. This would leave only Is sub
districts Ia little more than a fourth of the
| whole number) untitled. Now what JUS
tice, ct this late day to open up the whole
question of quotas for the fourth time, in
the hope of bene6tting about one fourth of
1 the towns and wards, at the expense of
the remaining three fourths? The eight
L days notice may have been sufficient for
correcting the enrolment lists of the city,
and especially of those wards which had,
for two or three weeks previously, been
busily engaged in reducing their enroll
ment but what possible chance had the
great majority Of the towns to make any
/ thing like thorough revision The re-
suit is exactly what might have been anti
cipeted. The great msjoritY Of the coun=
try towns have done little or nothing from
want of opportunity and lack of proper or
ganization, while several of the wards of
the city of Cleveland have had more names
stricken off than the entire enrolment
lists of several of the towns. OF course,
this will make the draft bear much harder
upon the country relatively than upon the
city, and while entirely willing TO bear its
burden in carrying on the war, it is high
time it should wake up and meet the
danger it is threated with, of being saddled
with part of the city's fair share of that
burden.
Judge Spalding is the representative of
the district of country and city alike, and
we are sure he only needs to be informed
of the facts to see that justice is done to
the towns which have so long honored him
by their confidence. We trust he will at
once give the subject careful investigs-
ton. Such an investigation, it cannot be
doubted, will satisfy him that the proposed
revision is as unwise as it is unjust, and
that conclusion he will also learn has been
reached by every officer, who has been con-
nected with the Provost Marshal's office
since the call was issued. 80
EAST CLEVELAND.