Franklin Repository
The Draft In The 16th District
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Maryland To Pennsylvania
What The Union Administration Has Done
Governor Curtin
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Speech Of General Sickles
Senator Rice On Democracy
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Rebel Retaliation
Jeff. Davis
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Jeff. Davis has issued nearly a score of bombastic proclamations threatening the direst vengeance upon negro troops and their officers in the Union service, although he was always using them in a small way himself, and would have used thousands more but for the fact that they generally landed in our lines as deserters. Now, however, his universal conscription having failed--Vicksburg, Port Hudson, Tullahoma, Gettysburg, Helena and Charleston having made rebel ghosts play fantastic tricks before him, foreign intervention having been indefinitely postponed for want of a respectable belligerent power to recognize--the New York riots and Governor Seymour's "friends" having collapsed into a decent respect for an aroused loyal sentiment and a few thousand bayonets--he plays his last card by calling out 500,000 negro troops for the rebel service, and promises them freedom and fifty acres of land. We are glad that Jeff. in the madness of his desperation has planted himself bravely in his "last ditch." If ever there were any doubts about the Emancipation Proclamation, he has brushed them away like so many cobwebs by calling out the slaves as regular troops. Thus does crime ever overleap itself, and however subtle and well devised its schemes, it always leaves open some avenue for retribution.
We will now have tested the tendency of the slaves. If they love slavery they will fight for it--if they love freedom they will turn upon the power that calls them to fight for their own enslavement and strike their deadliest blows. In this crowning folly of treason, the last hope of slavery dies out in the Western World.
It was Sheridan, we believe, who when he threatened to cut a reckless boy off with a shilling was answered--"very well, father, but where is the shilling to come from?" It is all very well for Jeff. Davis to promise negroes freedom, when they are already free, and fifty acres of land each when neither Jeff. nor his pretended government own so much as a foot of land, save what forgiving humanity may yield for a traitor's grave.
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Lieut. John Stewart
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Brief War Items
Fort Moultrie, Gregg and Beauregard Shelled for Three Hours
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From Newbern. A Rebel War Vessel Runs The Blockade. Jeff. Davis calls for 500,000 Black Troops. They are offered Freedom and Fifty Acres of Land
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Proclamation! General Election
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Local Items
The Draft
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In this week's issue will be found a completed list of the drafted men for this district. Everything passed off pleasantly at the drawing, though there were no very large crowds in attendance until Franklin county was drawn. On Thursday there was a very large attendance; the street in front of the Provost Marshal's office was packed with people, including quite a number of the fair sex. The crowd evinced their good humor by mock congratulations of the elect, and merriment and pleasant badinage seemed to be the order of the day. The draft, like lightning, seemed to strike just where it pleased, and shouts and laughter rose now from one end and in another moment from quite the other end of the assemblage, and the person hit seemed to enjoy it quite as much as his neighbors. Our neighbor of the Spirit, Mr. Hamsher, was one of the lucky drawers of a prize, and the crowd, pleased at having one of the chief and peculiar defenders of the "constitution as it is and the union as it was," enrolled under the "Starry Banner," evinced their pleasure by three hearty cheers. The drawing of the Provost Marshal's name also brought forth cheers. Our reporter was likewise astonished by hearing his name called out, but as he was a nine-months' man, he didn't seem to mind it much. In the Borough luck seemed particularly to run against the Printers, Druggists, Lawyers, and Butchers. There were eight printers, every druggist that was in the first class, seven lawyers, and eight butchers drafted. Through the district the ministers seemed to suffer. In one township in Fulton County, of the eighteen names that were drawn, six were Mellott's. There were twelve colored persons drawn in Chambersburg, and twenty-three in Antrim Township. Though we have often heard objections made to the enlisting of colored men, at the drawing, everybody seemed pleased when they were drawn, and seemed to think their chances so much the better for it. In some districts two, three, and in our borough, four brothers were drawn. Everything passed off agreeably, and we never saw a more jolly crowd assembled together.
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The substitute business has called into action every species of fraud and villainy. The draft opened a new and rich field for the Peter Funks and thimble-riggers generally, and they have plied their new trade with immense profit to themselves and corresponding loss to conscripts and the government. Five men were justly shot in the Army of the Potomac on Saturday last for becoming the instruments of substitute-brokers, by whom they were induced to desert and sell themselves several times over as substitutes.
It is safe as a rule to refuse to have any dealings with wandering substitute-brokers, or those who advertise from the cities that they are prepared to supply substitutes at marvelously low prices. No man can propose to furnish them at low rates without intending to defraud somebody, and those who have no dealings with them will be sure not to be cheated. Mr. J.A. Thompson, of Pittsburgh, advertises in to-day's paper that he can supply substitutes for less than $50, and invites drafted men to remit him ten cents, for which the profound secret will be made known. Mr. Thompson insists upon advertising in the Repository and paying for it, and we accom[m]odate him as we do patent medicines, circuses, monkey-shows and humbugs generally; but it is due to our readers to say that any man who is silly enough to send him ten cents, must have more dimes than he can use profitably. All who desire to deal honestly with themselves and the government, will furnish their own substitutes or otherwise comply with the law.
"In the following, from St. Louis Democrat, the highest compliment is paid to the great earnestness and patriotic energy displayed by the Governor of Pennsylvania. The Democrat regards his election as of national importance:"