Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1865-03-23
RICHMOND WHIG.
Thursday Morning. March n, 1895.

A FTrR many pOstpOnements and much begging
n Tor farther delay, Lincoln's draft has been set
syoipr in Nes York. The spread-esgle journals OF
that metropolis have labored hard to make IL seem
that the war spirit high and bright there as
ever. but the confession can not be avoided now
that .tAe necessity which has been imposed upon
sthe authorities Of making this last draft has been
.sbro1zat about by the supineness AMI neglect Of
ssthe people themselves Despite the warnings and
advice OF the press, they could not be induced to
edo aur4 thing TO relieve themselves" Neither
the cold fas" nor the GLORIOUS union" has power
any longer. Il seems 10 eharm-nor has even the
more potent influence Of money suhced TO secure
the ,outin gent OF troops demanded from Gotham.
As consequence the wheel has been set revolving,
and thirteen thousand modest and reluctant braves
arc 70 be afforded by rs agency the opportunity Of
winning undesired glory or getting killed by proxy
The latter the more probable, Tor the Herald IN
forms Us '' THAI every person so drafted viii he
anxious to escape iro m the responsibility OF his
"choice, and will do his best to provide snbsti-
"tute" To this complexion It will come. The
Yankee army wall soon be made up, almost alto
Eesder Of substitutes, and such substitutes How
they are obtained, and what ort of cattle they
are ". Pollard tells us in his 'sO6Ssrcs,ioRS in TIE
NORTH +" lately Patlshed. "The city OF New York ,,
he says, ' secured By bounty agents; get, even at
- this great centre Of population in the North.
these men and 1t necessary 10 their business to
- kidnap aud drug recruits, aud to entrap them
''by most monstrOus devices. Men are system
q Bateally m1de drunk to procure their consent 10
'eRlst simple foreigners are put in the sTombs'
"On false charges, trumped up in boarding. houses.
+" and then persuaded that their only means of ex-
'tTicatiOu u 20 60 into the army; the drinking
"hOuses, the gambling bells, the low boarding
houses on the wiarves, every sink of iniquity
.'and every abode Of ignorance, is constant
- ~ watehed by the bounty agent tor his victim.
- wish every IN the South could
- see FOR huelf tle extent Of the deterioration of
tie material Of the Yankee army. He would
. fad in this view an encouragement for the Con-
- federacy that had not before entered his mind
- and when he saw on what legs the war is now
q supported 10 the North, he could readily under.
- stand the peculiar difficulties of Yankee recruit
- ing, aud howthey are yerging 10 the last neces
. SHY. had an interesting occasion Of observa
. tioR r,.tIu the ankee lines around Richmond
- had 10. several months an insight into the re-
a. erui.ing Offices with which the CITY Park in
a. New YORK, IS 5hingled / hal, on different oc-
- easions had the freedom OF the city OF Boston
- which ia tie grea, entrepot-mueh more so than
g New IoTG-0i foreign enlistments: and when
" declare to the reader that the proportion Of cit
- zeas OF the United States in the Yankee army
h fallen TO about one -filh Of it, and these the
' worst and nastiest '5cabs Of Northern cities. he
" may be sure l am not amusing him with extravn-
' CANT assertions, but giving him the results Of
" careful and reliable Information. The
" black soldiers in the Yankee army are mostly
" composed OF the dregs OF the negro race those
. who eUlist are generally nothing more than the
"iguor-nt and uncourh plant alton scrubs who
Z" esa hDd 10 other employment. d.
- The white element Of that army Is only degree
- better. Ii the veterans of the Copfede-
80 rats army not able 10 smash up such mate.
" rial. black aud white as the Yankee army now
% takes iaio its composition, they might as well
- give up theiE occupation and 20 home in dis.
grace. The Confederate public can have no idea
g OF the after deterioration OF this material since
" the campaign opened in last NAY 1t is sueb in
a. the armies OF the Potomac and the james. that
- caudidy believe if General Lee had good reason
90 70 ASSUME tie aggressive, he could break their
g lines around Richmond from one end 10 the
(" other"