It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

If the old regiments should not be filled up by volunteers before the 1st day of September, a special draft will be ordered for the deficiency.

The draft for 300,000 militia called for by the President will be made on Wednesday, the 3d day of September, between the hours of 9 a. m. and 5 p.m., and continue from day to day between the same hours until completed.

The writ of habeas corpus is hereby suspended in respect to all persons so arrested and detained.

All marshals, deputy marshals, and military officers of the United States are directed to arrest and detain any person or persons about to depart from the United States in violation of this order.

No citizen liable to be drafted into the militia shall be allowed to go to a foreign country.

Any person liable to draft who shall absent himself from his county or State before such draft is made will be arrested.

I believe he is a brave and able man, and I stand here, as justice requires me to do, to take upon myself what has been charged on the Secretary of War as withholding from him.

I occupy a position that enables me to believe that these two gentlemen are not nearly so deep in the quarrel as some presuming to be their friends.

I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.

I know General McClellan wishes to be successful, and I know he does not wish it any more than the Secretary of War for him, and both of them together no more than I wish it.

The only thing I think of just now not likely to be better said by some one else is a matter in which we have heard some other persons blamed for what I did myself.

I say here, so far as I know, the Secretary of War has withheld no one thing at any time in my power to give him.

That a draft of 300,000 militia be immediately called into the service of the United States, to serve for nine months unless sooner discharged.

Regulations will be prepared by the War Department and presented to the President with the object of securing the promotion of officers of the Army and Volunteers for meritorious and distinguished services and of preventing the nomination…

If any State shall not by the 15th of August furnish its quota of the additional 300,000 volunteers authorized by law the deficiency of volunteers in that State will also be made up by special draft from the militia.

Trying to please everybody, he will satisfy nobody.

Those enemies must understand that they cannot experiment for ten years trying to destroy the government, and if they fail still come back into the Union unhurt.

Now is the time, if ever, for honest men who love their country to rally to its support.

This government cannot much longer play a game in which it stakes all, and its enemies stake nothing.

The only excuses allowed for the absence of officers or privates after the 11th day of August are: First. The order or leave of the War Department. Second. Disability from wounds received in service. Third. Disability from disease that…

All officers and privates fit for duty absent at that time will be regarded as absent without cause, their pay will be stopped, and they dismissed from the service or treated as deserters unless restored.

All leaves of absence and furloughs, by whomsoever given, unless by the War Department, are revoked and absolutely annulled.

No officer shall be restored to his rank unless by the judgment of a court of inquiry, to be approved by the President, he shall establish that his absence was with good cause.

Any officer or private whose health permits him to visit watering places or places of amusement, or to make social visits or walk about the town, city, or neighborhood in which he may be, will be considered fit for military duty and as…