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Show j f THE FRIEND OF THE PEOPLE ) ioalv. aHontlon avary auaation mail soar ths noma and addroaa ,h aroo" ao-dln It. Thio dooo awl Moo warily moan that tha nam. will ba y.llahao) whan th. uaatiaaj la anowa-odi only tha initials will ha vaoa If th. .uaationor aoairas. No attention will So .aid ta ananas ta which tha nam. anal aatara.a of th. aanaar ar. Mat apaonaoa!. V5 rr. J) friend of tha People: Did Abraham Lincoln fa tor conscription? con-scription? READER. Answer Yas. Abraham Lincoln Is oa record ss fsvorinc conscription ss a more expeditions and eflcient way of raising sn snny than by volunteering. volunteer-ing. In 1S3. when the governor ot I j' New Jersey ashed President IJncoia i to poatpone the draft so thst be could raise men, the president wrote bsck: j "For twenty or thirty dsys st the out-1 slBe. I need my men." And when Oov-1 ernor Seymour of New York saked ; that tba draft should ba postponed un-' til the constitutionality of the Isw should be decided. President Lincoln ' ; replied: "I do not object to sblda a ; I dm laion of the I'niled auprams court. or of the Judaea thereof, on tha con- slltulionallty of the drsft law. In fail. .Mould be willing to facilitate Uie obtaining of It. but I cannot con sent to lose the time while it la belli obtained. W. are contending with an enemy, who. ss I understand, drives every able bodied msn he can reach Into hla rank., yrry much aa a butcher drives bullocks Into a slaughter pen. No time is wssted, no srgument Is used. This produces sn irmy which will aoon turn upon our now victorious soldiers, slresdy in tfte field. If they shall not be sutttslned bv recruits ss they should be. It produces sn snny with s rapidity not lo be matched on our side, if we first waste time to re- I experiment with the volunteer avaietn i slresdy deemed by congress, and psl- 1 psbly. In fact, ao far enhanced as lo j he Inadequate and then more time to obtain a court declxioa as to whether I a law la conatltutional which requires ' s pan f those not now in the service i to to to the aid of those who sre si I ready la It. snd still more time to de-1 tannine with sbsolule certainty thst we get thoae who are to go in the . preciaely legal proportion lo those who srs not to go." ! ' I Friend of tha People: j What la an Inch of rain? Y. P. Au.wer Tha expreaaimt. Isu Inch of: rain." refer, lo tho marks ot s standard rain gauge aa used for record purpoaoa by tho t'nltod Hiatea weather bureau.; An Inch of rain mean, nearly 1S1 i tona of water diatrlbuted equally over , aa area of land. j |