Year: 1863

! President Lincoln has issued proclama
tion calling upon the governors of the diff
ferent states to raise and have enlisted into
the United States service their respective
quotas of 100000 men.


Such is the confession Of the utter failure
Of the Conscription act, and of all the pro.
ceedings of the War Department under it.
which is now wrupg from the lips of the
Chief Magistrate. Such is the fact with
which the historian will conclude the men.
ton Of the correspondence between Presi'
dent Lincoln and Governor Seymour. So
will it be with many an unconstitutional
measure Of the administration Sooner or
later their unwisdom will extort their re-
peal, and their fruitlessness bring the con-
iession Of their lawlessness.


Let the whole country now bend its en-
ergies to the work of stimulating voluntary
enlistments There is danger that the call
following the draft will be as Intellectual as
the draft itself The danger must be met
and overcome. The time is too short-on-
ly two months, and then another draft ora
conscription The local machinery to for
ward volunteering has been broken up by
the operation Of the draft-the state and
township bounties are not available, and
the private means formerly used to assist
volunteering will in many cases be retain,
ed to purchase exemptions from threaten
ed drafts hereafter.


Unfortunately for the army, though hap
PLY for the persons most interested, work
is plenty, wages high, and labor scarce
There was time when three hundred dol
lars bounty would have tempted half mil
lion of men into the field within a couple
of months, but in this paper money era it
is not SO attractive.


As for this city it ought to have no
trouble in FILLING up its quota. If justice
| is done we shall prove to have a large sur
plus of volunteers under former calls The
draft has been more successful here than
elsewhere. The President promises that
allowance will be made in those localitie:
wnere there is surplus of volunteers and


where considerable number have been Be


cured by the conscription. In that case


New Y York city can easily fill up its quota


Is it possible for the voters of New York


not tosee in this new call, to which every


instinct OF patriotism must yet lead then


to respond, the proof of the wisdom of The
Democratic policy for the conduct of thc


war, the justice Of our denuncation of tn,


imbeclhty with which in all its depart


ments it is now conducted


Had the President issued a call for thre
hundred thousand volunteers last March


with an announcement that the unflle,


quotas in the several districts would b
t raised by the draft on say the lst of Angus
} last, who can doubt but that two hundre
l thousand volunteers would have been adde
to our armies by that time, and that tn
{ other hundred thousand could have bee
: procured without creating any marked OF
position to theIlaw or causing pain and di
! tress to our poorer class Of citizens.
Then see how changed the whole aspet
Q of the war would have been. We wouI
e have been spared the shame, distress, an
+, bloodshed of the New York riots; the vi
e tories of Gettysburg, ..Vicksburg and Pc
D. Hudson could have been promptly follow'
y up by the overwhelming numbers Of q
to Union forces; Banks could have occupi
lie Louisiana and Texas, Steele reduced Arka
as sas, Grant oyerrun Mississippi and tax
be Mobile, Rosecrans need not have stopp
a short at Atlanta, nor Meade of Richmor
re while Gilmore could have had all the III
be he so sorely needs to operate again
nd Charleston But no; with the conspicuc
IS unwisdom and want of forethought VII
ms distinguishes the military plans of the I
ry ministration, six precious months "
pa wasted in putting into operation the d