Year: 1863




IN New York.


| About the time tn,at the draft riots took
place in this city the authorities at Washington
gave to the State of New Jersey certain num-
Der Of days to gil her quota by enlstments
The State and local authorities Immediately
moved In the matter, and provided for the pay
ment of heavy bounties. The result is that
volunteers have presented themselves In large
numbers, with every prospect that the entire
quota Of the State will be made up before the
expiration Of the time granted to them. The
large bountiss offered have also attracted the
attention Of men in this city, and we are a.
sured that large number have gone over to
New Jersey and enlisted, preferring to volun-
teer and obtain the large bounty to running the
risk of the draft at home.


Now, If President Lincoln suspends the draft
in one State and gives the people an opportu-
nifty to fill their quota by volunteering what is
there to prevent his pursuing the same course
here! What claim has New Jersey over the
State of New York; Why should she be treated
leniently, while New York, which has furnished
the means to carry on the war, is forced into
bloody scenes! Certainly our citizens are none
the less patriotic The books at Washington
show that she has answered every demand made
on her for men and money. II is true that we
have had riot, which the fanatics have labored
in vain to prove was an insurrection to
benefit the South. But President Lincoln must
bear in mind that in no other city have the
people been goaded as they have in New York
by the journals that pretended to represent his
views. The Tribune, Times and Post have been
for months insulting portion of our people by
their diatribes and isms Of all kinds. No other
city has had anything in comparison to it. No
time or opportunity has been lost by those jour
nails in driving one portion Of our citizens into
opposition to the administration. The copper
head journals seized upon this incendiary work
Of the radical press, and made such use Of it as
to still deepen the hatred Of one class. In this
condition an attempt was made to enforce the
draft. The result is too disgraceful to repeat.
| New jersey at that time was given the opportu-
| nifty to resort to enlistments and New York re-
fused that boon.


Does net this, after all, look as though the
their determination to bring bloodshed and
destruction upon this city? But Mr.. Lincoln
| says " time'' is important. If time is important
| for New York why is 1t not for New Jersey?
| New York is ahead on all former CALLS whilst
New Jersey is behind. Will Mr.. Lincoln ex-
plain? The administration officials commenced
some four weeks ago to draft in this city; but
they have not obtained one conscrpt from this
| city yet Now 1t is we'll known that on the
Friday and Saturday previous to the riots six
hundred men enlisted in this city. It is stated
by authoritative sources that one thousand en-
listed in this city last week, and were taken to


the camps on Staten Island. BY which system


is the most men obtained! How much better
1t would have been to all concerned
| II, instead Of the President and the Governor
| spending the time since the riots wrangiing
over the enrolment and the quota, the Presi-


dent had at once announced that the draft


would be suspended for thirty or sixty days,


and the State given an opportunity to I'll its
quota by enlistments, the same "a In New


Jersey. Accompanying that statement should


have been the announcement that the draft
would be enforced at the expiration of that
period for all delinquencies. The people would
| then have taken hold Of the matter and offered
large bounties. If one thousand can be en-
listed in this city in one week, under the pre-
sent circumstances, what is there to prevent
Eve times that number being obtained, with
| increased bounties and universal effort by
our citizens to obtain recruits? The claims for
damages against the city for the destruction of
property amount to nearly one and half
millions. Suppose the city had appropriated that


amount before the draft commenced in boun-


ties; is there any person who doubts that with


that additional sum to the State and United


States bounties the quota of this city could


have been obtainods Would it not have


been far better for the reputation of all con-


cerneds Had we not better spend like


amount in bounties than another such sum


for property destroyed All this only shows


the extreme folly Of the President and the


Governor fooling away their time over the en-
roIment. But It nevertheless seems to be ad-
ditional evidence to what we have frequently


said-that we have no statesmen among u.s.


Instead Of the men in power in Washington


doing that which will give confidence to the


people, they seem to work on the theory


that al! the masses have 70 Do y to obey. With


a little common sense at Washington this whole


question could be settled, and all the men
wanted obtained with but little delay. But


the great trouble is-and we say 1t in sorrow-
lack of brains in Warrington.


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