Year: 1864

accrue out of this bill unless you assume that the Fsde


raj Government 10 Incompetent to discharge M duties and
each State must 20 work to raise for the Fede-
| raj Government The only thing can 500 about Il is
that will enable certain States which have not supplied
their quotas to fill their quotas with money instead OF
with men, think the effect Of u would DO bad hope


the bill will not meet with the coucurrence Of the Senate
| Mr. WILSON Mr. President this bill comes from


the House Of having that body by
vote of about two to one was introduced into tho
House gentleman who has been In the military service
commanding corps in tho Southwest and received the
cordial support Of several other gentlemen recently CON
nected with the army Gen. Garfield said, when tho bill
pending that he believed 1t tho best bill which had
been introduced into Congress during the session. or words
to that effect The Senator from Iowa tells us that
vote had been taken at the time came from the House
few would have voted for it, although he thns majority
will vote for it now; and hope he il right ia his sntc
patton But sir the Senator from Illinois does not see
any good that from passing this bill. believe
are twelve fifteen States that have not filed
their quotas and the large bounes having now expired
they will have to draft to I'll their quotas 1t any easy
thing or the Senator from Illinois and for few Senato
to speak in high commendaton Of the scon OF the people
of their States in promptly responding to the calls that
have been made upon them venture to say to the
Senator from Illinois that several of the States that have
not compatd their quotas have quite az many men IN the
army and in the navy in proportion 70 the number of men


liable to do duty have the States Of Illinois and Indiana
Those States have filed their quotas readily than
other States, and the reason Is very plain one The
States which it said have not filed their quotas have
really 10 the service including the army and navy
than Of tho States that have over filed their
quotas for the tina. the latter States have vast
number of young Take the States Of Indiana and
achusetts illustration They have 10 the State
Of Indiana l80O0 more Inhabitants than Msssachusetts
and Of that 900 hundred and three thousand are
males and it in most of these young Western States
The young men of the country have hrOnged there The
vast number Of foreign immigrants In the country counts
against the old Atlantic States Large numbers OF that
class of enrolled but when come to draft them
they do not respond to M they not liable to do duty
| Mr.. HOWE. We have two to your one.
| Mr.. WILSON. You have great many, know, IN
OF your Western Saes but the foreign population,
scattered the agricultural parts Of the country co.


think readily into the service than those in our large
cities and have been enthusiastic in support OF the
war and the policy of the country


| The Federal Government has enlisted during this war
but very few men Nearly all the that have been
put the service have been enlisted by the States and
the Federal Government does not know much about en-


listing men, 1t has done but very little OF during this
war, and that at enormous expense. The States have
raised most of the men who have gone into the army
We authorized the Government nearly two years ago TO
colored troops and they have suppose seventy
five eighty thousand men raised in the country,
great many of these have been raised by the nu
ence and by the action of the States. =. a-


do not believe that any confusion will come from al
lowing the States to raise these trOOps AS our armies
advance into the rebel States we find poor Union men
willing to enlist into the service OF the country and take
the bounes offered them They need the bounties their
families need the bounes for support for we are support
ing the fame of thousands Of Union men and some iami-


les of disunon 10 the rebel States We have enlisted
of these all parts OF the rebel States but the
State agents or State officers would enlist them much
readily than any agents of the Federal Government
could Then the Federal Government can only pay to
these white men one hundred dollars bounty. Many Of
the States paying three four and five hundred dosrs
bounty Then if the Federal Government raises these
puts them into regiments and thousand men
raised and scattered through the old veteran regiments
worth for the coming campaign more than three thou
sand put into new regiments. We can raise these
white men and scatter them through armies % they
advance into the rebel States the poor white people will
take the bountes offered them and into the regmen
and the States paying the bountes will get the credit
We thus transfer the burden from the loyal to the dsoyal
of the country and in doing it aid the loyal poor
white Of that section Of the country and the Senator
from Ohio evil 10 that


1t is of great importance to put colored men into the
service of the country to reach out beyond lines and
bring them in, and offer such ountes and such induce
meats will bring them in Every man taken from the
rebellion and added to the of the country weskens
the rebellion and strengthens believe if this bill shall
pass within hundred days many thousand more men
black and white in the rebel section of the country will
be put into the service than will 90 into IL II the Federal
Government alone is engaged In enlisting them. 4.


The morning hour having expired the Senate proceeded
to the consideration of other business