Show arrom the oregan orrean r aug an 17 1864 I suggestions FOR FOX THE COMING DRAFT since the authorities have discovered that men who are dratted and are unfit for soldiers may yet be made to serve their count ryas hos hospital r ital itai riu ses and various other capacities I 1 h have a v e redde reffe reflected eted deeply upon the am at len ien length lenth b th enabled to submit the following suggestions ns which the government is at liberty to adopt or rei hejcl ct cl aa as it pleases it is a well known fact ihde that blind men have the sense gense of touch more finely developed than those a who can see draft a few regiments of blind men to feel the position and strength of the enemy no exempt exemption iong iona granted on the ground that they cant see it bind B ind men and lame men might be drafted together the blind io 0 o fo go into battle carrying cari carl ying the lame OB on their backs I 1 call you that backing your friend shak men who have hav lost one or even both of their arms no longer be exempt government is prepared to a ayn am ain in any quantity tj of men on the shor eat notice idiots be de barred the privilege of serving erving fl their country in the when we have so many among our generals generale draft all he be lunatic asylums the madder men get the better they thoy fight men who have aged and infirm mothers de dent upon them for tor support should no anger langer l be exempt they can send the old women to the pour house the most of them do anyhow dumb men ought to make the most serviceable soldiers as they cant cry quarter their motto m must be no burren surrender derY it is absurd to exempt fat men they are arl so 80 well calculated to aill fill up he the depleted ranks of thearty th the army earmy isyou if you wane want to crush the enemy by iet fet precipitating 1 upon them large bodies ot of troops let iet fat men be drafted by all means confirmed drunkards have been objected to because they are not so anxious to whip the nemy enemy as they are to have the enemy treat A regiment of them armed with rifle whiskey and sustained by a battery ot tre mens meng would do greit execution to somebody somebody y I 1 have not heretofore favored the idea of drafting the other ae bex sex but a angad of old maids would certa certainly 1 ik be useful in refusing rep using the enemy they are sometimes good in an attack i be B all means draft congressmen they might do a little good in the army and they are of no possible use here bere they are editors of war newspapers should be drafta drafted in a body they have p nned war articles BO so ion lon long iong they athey should be themselves penned by the articles of war 21 conscript all lawyers their charges would be most disastrous to the enemy |