The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1865-01-13

W.
State are, NO dohh, skulking, or
openly residing In other portions ol
1t; many have gone into other States
and the Territories, and not II few
have fed to Canada.
This Is a serious evil, and yet tho
remedy may not be unattended with
difficulties. The supplementary draft
does not release the refugees who oc-
oasioned it from military service
As to these, you may be able TO
adopt some measures to arrest and
hold them to service, where they will
aid in reducing subsequent quotas
The class, equally guilty, who desert
ed the State that has protected them.
IN the hour when their services were
required for her defense, IL is possible
cannot be punished for the past Of
Tense; but it clearly in your power to
provide punishment for such trans
gressions in the future. A large por-
tion Of them cannot he effectually
reached by fines and penalties. Is it
not, therefore legitimate to impose
upon the offense a forfeiture of civil
or political rightsy ] do not find any
introduction; while there is moral il
not legal forc' in the argument that
the man who ignominiously fees from
the call of his country in the hour OF
peril, should not be permitted to
quietly return when the danger is
past, or the service has been imposed
upon another, to mingle in shaping
the policy OF that country, and eloos.
ing its rulers. 1t is not a sufficient
reply that such man is politically
opposed to the policy of the war, Oh
the manner of conducting it. "Free.
dom of speech and OF the press" in
criticlsing, or even denouncing the
lpolicy of the Government, is one
thing; but the refusal to obey the cal
to service Of that Government, when
legally and constitutionally enforced
is decidedly another. The one ma,
be tolerated, and even maintained as
incidental to natural right, the o,hel
is an act not only Of disobedience to
but of insurrcction against the laws o
the land; and he who commits this of
Tense may well be held to have for
reitcd the protection of the Govern
mcnt he condcms, and the privilege.
confirmed by the laws he dciies.
You may be able to devise rene
dies less severe and more effectua
against this evil in the State. trus
it may he so. for ] am satisfied on
loyal paopIe will require some definite
action of Tho Legislative body on thi
Important subject.
AGRICULTURAL LAND GRANT.
| BY enactment last Winter YOU &C
cepted the grant of land for agricul
ural education, made BY act OF Con
tgress, approved July 9, 1862; of whic
! early notified the Interior Depart
ment at Washington. The whole co,
respondenoe relating to this subjee
is appended, from which it will b
seen that the quantity of good land !
he State subject to entry and apprc
priation under this grant was so sma
! (only 80 acres that / had no discre
ton but to elect to receive tue amour
in land scrip. Accordingly, on tn
18th OF September the commissions
forwarded to me three thousand min
hundred and thirty seven certificate
of scrip for zone quarter section
each, equal to six hundred and thirt,
thousand acres; being in full for th,
claim of the State under the law
These certificates were deposited I,
the State Treasury. and the fund /.
subject to such further legislative ac
ton as you may deem proper.
No more important subject will
claim your consideration than th,
proper disposition to be made of thi,
grant. Mingled with the counscls O
earnest and honest friends of cduca
ton, you will, no doubt, find tn,
pressnre of local interests, the claim,
lof existing institutions for additiona
cndowment; and possibly some no
entirely disinterested in their char
acter. Among these it is no part O
my duty and | have certainly no in
clination to discriminate. Tie Com
+ missioner Of Common Schools ha
somewhat deliberately discussed tn
subject in his annual report. With
out indorsing his views, may be per
mittcd to say that the clear and for
chile manner In which they are pre-
sented may well commend them T.
your examination. He ia evidentl
embarrassed by the question of loco
influences; and in endeavoring t
eonciliate them, falls into the erro,
as ! think, ofso dividing up the in
come OF the fund as the incapacitat
either branch for performing wAa
will be required of ii, or the whole fror
achieving the usefulness that nigh,
: by concentrated effort, be accom-
plished, This is no less to be avoid
ed, in my Judgment, than the schem
so earnestly pressed by educations
enthusiasts. of building up a gran
,, institution whose professorships sha
tempt the great scientific minds of tn
country--whose contribution to tn
: grandeur Of the State shall comper
safe for its utter want of utility
; whose eduction shall illustrate an
. expand the abstruse theories {
I science, attainable by the few, but
sealed book to the many-whos
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