Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-02-21

THB President has stated to a. Rhode Isl
Iaud delegation, that although the policy
which had been adopted by the Provost
Marshal General for the assignment of thl
respective quotas met his entire approval
and appeared to him the only way b,
which exact Justice could be secured, il
kyiew of the fact that the aggregate of. th,
credits due to all the states exceeded very
considerably the number of men called for
and that men and not an adjustment OF
balances was the object of the oall--he
had, for the purpose of salts tying the
minds of all parties, designated board Of
officers to examine into the system and re-
porttheir conclusions.
he added:, tsThe moral effect of fur.
nishing the men called for promptly and
without hesitation, will be as great a DOW.
er ss the men themselves, aud 1 believe
that the opinion which General Hancock
expressedlto me yesterday, is entirely we'll
founded, that If the army could be pres
emily increased by.four huudEed thousand
men, not one of them would ever be re.
quired to fire musket at the enemy"
The delegation, in making report of
this conversation with Mr.. Lincoln, said
that "the Secretary of War was eduallY
firm with the President in the declaration
that no particular extension of time could
be allowed, and thatWhile full assurance
would heEgiyen that po.dFsfs should behad,
while recruiting was actively progressing
that this must be understood as the con.
dition upon. which the liability to have one
was suspended" az
The Illinois senators and representatives
in Congress have addressed a letter to the
Speaker of the Illinois House, in which
the following decision of Secretary Stanton
is announced: g....-.a...0.
"As Misrepresentation exists in some
quarters in regard to the credits given by
the War Department for three. year men,
we beg leave to state the Information de.
rived from the Secretary Of War on that
subject! He informs US that athe pending
draft being for one-year men, and the gov.
eEnment desiring to have the three hun
dred thousand called for in the field this
years State sending volunteer for three
years will only receive credit for one
man on the present draft. Otherwise if all
the States furnished three year men
and each man furnished was credited as
three, the government would have but one
hundred thousand men additional for the
coming campaign, which would not ans.
wer its purpose. Again, If the war should
close the present year, ss was hoped it
would, and three.year men be discharged
at the end of the year, state furnishing one
year men would contribute three times as
many men to the support of the army as
the one furnishing three-year men if the
credits were to be'gfven according to the
length; of time forwhich the soldier, yolun..
teered. 10 case the war goes on, aud aA.
other draft is made next year, credit will
then be Given for all soldiers in the field
who may have enlisted for more than one
year. But to give credit in advance for
future years, before it is known whether
,the-men will hbe wanted that year, it was
Insisted would embarrass the government
the present year, and be unjust to those
states furnishing one-year men," i