The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1865-03-11
The Volunteer Bounty Fund.

we PuDllSH, III anOlncr cOlulnn, tnlS week,
a statement of the bounty fund of the Sd
district furnished by the treasurer Of the
! fund. Mr.. Craw."vlu in response to cores
pondent's inquiries, published in last week S
Democrat. Those who paid few dollars
into that fund and unirtiy rested while the
committee racked their brains deyising WAYS
and means to raise the amount required to
clear the district, may perhaps afford to
grumble. If we had an enemy we wished
to subject to a severe punishment we
don know a situation we could name that
would be more appropriate to place him in
to insure him severe infection, than one
Of those volunteer fund committees.
The first installmcnt of money for paying
volunteers was raised by loan from the
Farmers and Merchants Bank of Cecil
county by the following gentlemen giving n
note for the same, for the sum of S2,514.17.
The names to the note are Hon. j. \. j.
Creswell, w. j. Jones, +. f. Ewing, r. G.
Reese. John S. Rossel, Victor L. Bennett.
Joseph p. Cantwell, John Perkins, f. w.
Staples, Jas. s. Crawford. The first squad
of volunteers was paid out of this loan, ard
the committee addressed themselves to the
herculean task of coaxng, begging, scolding,
shaming, dunning tight-fsted community
to raise the money to cancel this note, and
the balance of the fund to fill the quota
Finding that the committee. who had entered
on the praiseworthy business, in order to
keep off a draft, and thus save from its in
exorable grippe the men whose means would
not permit them to put in personal substi
tutes, and whose families and business, if the
draft should fall upon them would be put
to great privation and loss, by their per-
sonal eXertons likely to fill the quota-those
same men, in large numbers shirked in the
most shameful manner, skulking out of the
way of the collectors or under some himsy
pretext, refusing to pay anything. And to
the shame of these skulkefs, who were saved
from the hand of the recruiting sergeant by
their neighbors, $50 yet remains to be paid
on that note, the signers of which, as well
as the canvassing committee, were influenced
ny iO pcISOidl CONSIDERATIONS, n number OF
the members and signers being exempt by
law from military service, and all of them
abundantly able to put in personal substi-
tutes-which some of them did-and thus
have secured their exemption for three years
beyond peradventure. beside all the an.
noyance, vexation and trouble incident to
collecting money from stingy men who hope
to get clear of draft by drain on other
mems pockets.
Those who promised so relgiously to pay
portion of the fund that cleared the dis.
trct, but who have never yet done so, if
they are honest men, will at least contribute
portion of the amount promised in order
to pay off the note referred to-
The 3D. district has IA men to put in under
the last call, and there will be some expense
to meet outside Of the bounty which is sup
piled by the State and county, so there is a
double obligation resting upon those who
promised, but did not pay farthing to fill
the former quota of the district, to come for
ward and contribute something at least.