The Placer herald., 1865-03-25
From the Democratic Press.
THE DRAFT.
The Quotas of the States arranged upon
the basis of 500, 900 instead of
100000!

the basis Of 500 900 instead of
100000!
Rhode Island, too, has declared against
the fairness of the last draft, and the House
OF Representatives Of that State has passed
resolution requesting the Governor to
make application for its postponement.
The fanatics are great slckers for the
war; they favor all that is done so long as
they are not called upon to endanger their
own carcasses, or put their hands in their
pockets to contribute to its support.
The Rhode Island Republican papers are
bitter in their denunciatons of Secretary
Stanton and Gen. Fry They boldly assert
that the quotas of the several States are
based upon draft Of 100000 men instead
OF 100000, the number called for in the
Presidents Proclamation. Whilst we have
no word to say in justification Of the effort
at deception exposed by the Rhode Island
Republican press, we feel called upon to de-,
clare we have no sympathy with them.
Having denounced all who favored "peace
and Union" as traitors, we think they should
not complain of unfairpess, even if the last
man was called for. We annex an article
from the organ of the Rhode Island ultra
Aboitionists:
From the Providence (Rep.) Press.
The Excessive Quota in Rhode Island.
Gov. Smith has by special message laid
before the Legislature full and complete
justification for the issuing Of his procama-
tion announcing that the State was out of
the draft. We trust that our readers will
peruse it carefully.
The call of the President was for 3OO,O 900
men; upon that call the Provost Marshal
General admits there are credits in excess,
and upon all previous calls he admits an ex-
cess of Secen Moasand. The major portion
of the fifty days allowed by law had passed,
leaving the Governor-all the Governors of
the States in iact-without question but
what the quotas were to be assigned upon
the basis of call for only 100000 men,
when out comes a demand for between four
teen and fifteen hundred men from our State,
and the whole affair SO mixed in It's figuring
AS 10 puzzle a madder mathematician than
Fry himself
1t will be noticed also, that the proclams-
lion of his ExceIency only preceded this
newly announced order of things but by one
day.
Now, this call Of Gen. Fry-we cannot
call it the Presidents, although it is based
upon Mr.. Lincon's Proclamation asking for
SOo,oO0-is really made by Gen. Fry to be
call for 100000, and the quotas Of The
States are arranged upon that basis.
We do not for one moment believe that
the President will allow this mad freak Of
the muddled mathematician at the head of
the Provost Marshal Generals Bureau to
work such a gross injustice to any State.
If Mr.. Lincoln wants 100000 or ,OOO,,
900 Of men, let him say SO explicitly and
then, within the limited time allowed by law,
this State can provide for meeting it, but
this snap judgment taken upon the people is
simply outrageous
We cannot enter into full examination
at this time of the singular paper Of General
Fry, found in the message. We know that
some Of the most skillful of New York math-
ematicians have tried their hands at it and
found it muddle. We have looked into it
sufficiently close to know that after a man
has studied the propositions and tables for
two hours he will be troubled for month
after with quota on the brain, and if he es-
capes fry of that sensitive organ of bis
physical machine, he will do well.
On the same subject the Concord On. H.)
Monitor says that Gov. Gilmore has tele-
graphed TO Washington for an explanation
concerning the new appor,ionment of quotas,
and will insist on a thorough understanding
of the case before lifting finger to meet
the call.