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up cr.o ■ they thought it
abr. fi . Mid ifi ?y do not intend to
bo-t id ’ t. !' he:': 1' yj< :c no portion
of their 1,1; i ,~y volunteering to deft nd
thuiU.
Efi thorn : b. ■ »:ui rvrpoctoble class
of honeat, {>■■.■.'i ; . yyt i• uyt ia ‘.ha Presi
dent of if.. >•/ :u nq upright man
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we aeaert ri'-c-iJ tigc ►i.laftthassworn
to earn * d••C : ' 1 m ..I the C ;ufeduiuts
States, be,- u- •I- y Ui:> oath.
I*.u:> . • p - • to ditfuse the
atrcOßth of a:-• ■■.. by w.:.:<i':rinir over a
vay f:■'!.•, stiown wi.'li the v,mh of Admin-'
lHlv :• ,ta (b. itu: ii . : the broken arches of
onr 0»< 3 c’l ' 1 D loot tWO
}*!'•. nil,', phial . .i modern blind
Sarcp.e.-a is Ir i' . : o fmll down; and we will
cad .a•.•••.r to i a.; '. .‘o tl>.»t their fall as
m.: i.voiv. '! •il t • ude of liberty
as ”i.a • tv. i ; ,p:' . ' the Hi lisline
teropte.
tf’iieHist ia oi h-r a- U oocnrs in the Oonsti
tuiijri of tbo . :i :. ~;c hia •*, is in the
eight! ' * ich
eec!ion r.;. wi. * . . ; Congress
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S t.cs to Itiii .. i (:i M ".rly all
r.io acroi: yrnie-l by i ah.og vr '<rd«, and the
twelfth; •, .-; :. . -:iag l«tn
guaye:
“to .■ ■ ' ' > m ro
prhi'.on <ij j h i : rjl o.ii" .wall 6c for along
er tc ''to than l. > pet in ."
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clause for :■ ■■■:, . Ii : . ... <, if iiuition
of the United ■ ottip.-. it v. , for ft grave pur
pose tli:.. . , f . tiiution deft
nnehanged wi- tii ■ir tires i,:-i done in other
days of peril. Long enn.o hnving shown
to the p<. . ? i.V ~.’ U tb: r be odance
vdu ' of t'.i.ir rorum 'c.s vv.uto .....he tho
Crown ai’ 1 1 i. ii ’0 ■. i* iii:at,on the
Hr: • .<' 0 ■vr ' .hi sv .• vs money
for pun!’ I .’ ii- . ’ . our ' . iopu-.d '■ ie
wiseo m••.f C' • ol.i- ■ siaV.: ’ ;:«>vernmeßt
on mi . 1 paragraph of the
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money for v ■ jn: for- a Jc-'.'ger.teim
tliai lw-3 ye.’. .* - paragraph
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neither the fib hors . . 7.‘ '• -o: tho p »t-- ! -of
1861, intended t->-blow vi •«>«• to b.t ra!s
t;d for a w.- ■V ■ - - ‘ people ia
the next cl- ':i Ml <-f - - s o stop it !
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cover •" - r -, 1 fvcuauy ot j
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money 1n... -, • ■ lory - two year?,
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neat Ihy . - '> > tend, and
la.' : ’ •-a ?•V- . money
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bar. at:, ii '• -•••- 'be people
fro* tee u of .• ■, '• ,ur l ruler,
all sane i-’.-ui v.’ ! c t: . -). -i tail*
acting seek; to, ...... th. C asutuuon.
and to build a.l • tmiteia o b" rules. Ad
•who advi-j* lly help to - ■ end, are but
the tools e
This is no merer .-the .1 abuse, but a i*ain
mat-.er of Cos .-it tuu-.-.l 1 as expounded
by all the up ...- <. no. . • -.--prudence, past
or pro,oat. '.-."L. wer-t .'-vo any weight.
Aud vet. the A ....... dr-tion of the Confed
erate N;. ’ . tt.e a corrupt Congress,
ka-t de.ro procure i the fare kin: down
©f Ibis siroi-u choc.. to power, and has se
cured the me., vo. . -.trylan ©u the war for
—witliv'v.v 'OiVoTu.viv n i>y C ongress,
»rui in spite of . -v.; v. t people. The
©nly thirty to soy die povcCvution of the war,
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 25, 1865.
is the will of the President, or the conquering
power of the foe !
line passage ol the law for the payment of
tax in kind, is utterly without warrant in the
Constitution, and not only gives to the Presi
dent the means of war, and • the power “to
raise and support armies’’ without the co-op
eration of Congress or the will of the people,
without limit, but the evil is -exaggerated far
beyond even that gross violation of tho Con
fetituticn. The courts of tho land have re echo
sod that mad cry of “necessity !” “necessity !”
which is always the robber’s plc-a and the ty
rant's apology ; and have decided* that the
power to raise armies, means the power to
taise potatoes and corn ! The right to support
armies, tho right to support hogs and field
hands.
It his actually been decided, that not only
tho means tor an indefinite protraction of the ;
war, beyon the pleasure of tho people, can be
given through the trickery of Tax in Kind—
hut that tho vast agricultural interest of the
nation can be mustered mto a pretended mili
eu/service, aid the planters and farmers of
the States, made the unwilling tools of their
own government, to furnish its unlawful sup-
plies for unconstitutional ends.
We charge that the Constitution which the
Ikv i rut aud Congress swor eto support, has
been an d violated by tbs law of Tax
in Kind, extending beyond a period of two
yearn. That the power of a succeeding Con
gress to repeal the law, but aggravates the evil;
by forcing upon the new representatives of the
people an entire change of government policy,
and that too at a time when the oppressive
opera.ions of the present law, have so far di
mini -bed popular seat aud confidence, aud ae
tu .llr limited tbo productions of the soil, that
a change ol policy would be perhaps an evil,
almost equal to the original one. Tho detail
ing of tho vatt agricultural class, is but a bribe
cHired by power to sustain crime; lor its evi
' cut client is to teach that if the planter dares
oppose tho power and strive to limit its
grasping ambition, then the power will punish
by sending him as another victim to the war his
veto can no longer control. The whole thing is a
vud abuse against tho nation; it should never
have existed and ought to be corrected ftt once.
There is another power which the President
of this Confederacy is unconstitutionally exer
cising—and that is “public patronage.” The
sixteenth clause of the eighth section of tho
first a-iiole of the Confederate States Constitu
tion, reads as follows :
“To provide for organizing, arming and dis
ciplining tho Militia, and for governing feuch
part of th"m as may be employed in th* ser
viee of the Confederate Nrates ; reserving to
tbe States, respectively the appointment of the
officers, and the authority of training the Mili
tia according to the discipline prescribed by
Congress.’’
We wish now briefly to call attention to tl.e
vast power given to the Administration, for
public use; and to argue from the vastness of
the grant, that ho who asks for more, seeks
it for the purposes of unholy ambition.
All the ordinary pui poses of war, or proba
b’e reoesi'Uies of a nation, are contemplated
in the twelfth clauso. and covered by tho
words ‘To raise and support armies.” In a
fori ign war, the Executive of the Republic can
ex).. fin tho voluntary energies of the nation,
and is entitled to all the men he can get from
this or any other part of the globe, for hire, for
love, for patriotism, for glory, for plunder,—in
short, every volunteer lie can get in the world !
But not a single man can bo forced to go !
a soldier can be put into the army against
hi 3 will. But all tho others he is entitled to,
aud is. allowed ail tho power of the samo Con
gn j who vote the war and the army, to provide
for their support . But the Congress who vote
tho war and vote the army to the Executive, can
give the money to prosecute it with for only
two years. The first clause also of the same
o’gthth section, while it provides lor Revenue
j from taxes, duties, imports and excises, “to
j provide for tho common defence,” expressly
I s'ates, “but no bounlies shall bo granted frem
| the treasury.”
There is a time, however, when the Congress
can clothe tho Executive with far more terrible
powers. There are three emergencies of great
peril to the Republic, when the power of Con
giess becomes a grand one, and tho trust of
the Executive a terrible one. In the fifteenth
clause of tnc same, section are the
words :
“To provide for calling forth the militia to
I execute the. laws of the Confederate States,
suppress insurrections and repel invasions.’’
' The latter of the three great perils has been
upon us for four years, and with what powers
does the Constitution clothe the' Government
for on? preservation from it 1 The answfer is
found in the oaly solitary definition, that is
.given to city word in the whole Constitatioa—
: the definition of the word Militia.
, V - thirteenth clause of the ninth section of
.articlefirst reads as fallows:
! ‘ A well regulated mlHtb., being necessary to
j' U.O seauit-y of * free State, the right of the
I vp'ti to Keep and boar arms shall not bo in
i frii-g- 1."
1 :u; militia then are tho people, and not a
p.-.it of the people, but all the people. There
fore two jeu;s at a time. Congress can
Mloiitc ih» President with all the power and all
the wealth of the whole country. It is no
.p.iostion of state Rights or of Habeas Corpus
No ipiestiou of Slate lines or reserved rights,
or the ‘‘ultimate absolute sovereignty of the
s-vittf.,' 'bn: iu spite of States and Governors and
Le.ti.'lature and the people themselves,Congress
cin vote to the Executive for two years at a
time, every man, every boy, every dime and
every doi’.u in *he Confederacy. We repeat
it, every mau aad every dollar can be taken
for self defence in either of the three emergen
cies contemplated in the Constitution ! And
as if to place it beyond tke reach of morta
ambition to ask for more power, or more ex
tended rue; the third clause of the sixth arti
cle roads as follows :
-’The Constitution and the laws of the Confed
erate States, made in pursuance thereof, and
all treaties made or which eh»ll be made under
the authority of the Confederate States, shall
lwthe supreme law ei the land, and the Judges
ia every state shall be bound thereby, anything
in the Constitution or laws of any state to the
contrary notwithstanding. ’’
To this vast power thus solemnly placed be-
I yond the caprice of States, the notions of leg
lislatures and the whims_of judges, there is but
one solitary limit. The people left bat one
slight and yet strong barrier between their
sacred liberties and lives and fortunes, and
this vast grant of power! What was i: ?
“reserving to the States, respectively, the ap
pointment of the officers, and the authority of
training the militia. ”
The militia are “the people.” Whether
volunteers or forced out by draft, —for con
scription is illegal—the appointment of offi
cers, and the training, rests with the States.
The biographer of President Davis tells the
world, that he (Davis) refused ‘he appointment
of Brigadier General oi Volunteers, in tho ar
my of tho United States, upon the sole ground
that all troops, save enlis’e' 1 men of the reg
ular army, were militia, and that no power in
that Government could appoint their officers,
save the sovereign States. That one act s’ands
side .by side with the grand conduct of W ash
ington on the records of fame, and is the no- j
blest deed Mr. Davis ever <iid. Alas ! that |
lust for power and love of patronage aud place
should have induced him not only to violate
tho Constitution he so solemnly s.vore to sup
port, but to blot and tarnish the only real glo
ry of his own record, and to sully tho pure fame
of the Colonel who saved tho battle of Buena
Vista, ana tho Seuator from Mississippi who :
was so long tho champion of the rights of the 1
States.
Under the military organizalion of the
Confederate States, the grade of rank runs thus:
Non-commissioned officers, second Lieutenant,
First Lieutenant, Captain, Major, Lieutenant
Colonel, Colonel, Brigadier General, Major
General, Lieutßfcant General in tho Provisional
Army.
And Non-commissioned officers, second
Lieutenant, First Lieutenant, Captain, Major,
Lieutenant Colonel, Colonel, General in the
K“gular Army.
This distinction has been always kept up,
and a lieutenant in regular service ia about
equal to a colonel in the Provisional Army.
Brig, Gen. Leadbetter was Major of Engineers,
regiment A. And the simple general of the
Regular Army, like Lee, Bragg, Beauregard
aud Johnson, racks and takes precedence
above all the host ol Brigadier Generals, Major
Generals and Lieutenant Generals.
The United Slates service has all the grades
in both branches of the service, and Generals
Scott and Grant are their only Lieu
tenant Generals, and George Washington was
the only Commander in Chief. Now if .the
least informed, of our readers will glance at
any report of a battle or letter from the army,
he will sec that not more than three - thousand*
men of all the vast army of the Confederate
States, even pretend to belong to the regular
Service; and therefore the entire lisl of appoint
ments made by the President during the whole
war, is in direct violation of the constitution
of the Confederate Slates. President Davis
admitted this when he refused a commission
in volunteers. The Congress admits it, when
they ratify any commission, either in the
or the staff of the Provisional army.
The constitution and laws of the State of
Georgia, wisely forbid any officer holding a
commission under the general government, to
hold any office of honor, trust or profit, in the
State Government, fhi3 was done to prevent
the possibility of any Confederate official tam
pering with tho laws and rights of the State.
No member of the Georgia Legislature can
hold his seat, save a citizen or a State officer ;
an! consequently, all the brass buttoned and
gold lace gentlemen who hold their seats in
our General Assembly have asserted that they
hold none but Miltia commissions. If they are
Militia officers, the men they command are
militit, and yet by what right do President
Davis and the Hon. James A. Seddou, Secreta
ry of War, issue them commissions ? The Ad
ministration of the Confederate States are
given by the plain letter of the constitution,
the control of the last man and the last dollar,
in the whole country, for the defence of the
country from invasion for two yoars at a tun#.
The people only withheld the vast patronage
of the army as the right of Stato government.
But the Administration took that.
Nearly four years ago, Gov. Brown organ
ised the Fourth Georgia Brigade at Camp
McDonald. There were, so far :is we recollect.
four regiments of infantry, each one thousand
strong, one battalion of riflemen, besides the
Rivalry and artillery. This splChdid body of
troops was fully equipped, well armed, and
with all the ofricers appointed by the State as
they had a right to bo, the brigade was tend
ered to the Confederate States. After a pro
longed delay, and after the miserable pets of
Government had exhausted all the petty abuse
they could hinge on to the name of “Big ,
Scanty; 1 ' and after charging the Governor ;
with keeping the men to vote them in the i
election —while the Confederate Government
actually refused to receive them—the State Ex
ecutive finally yielded ter the clamor, and the ;
legally appointed Commander of the Brigade j
waived his rank, and took tho command of a j
egion of nrixed elements ; and for a year af
terwards the troop3 labored in vain to get a
recognition of staff officers in such a form, tha*
they could perform their proper duties
But we have given facts and evidence enough
to conviuco all who are not wilfully blind.
We charge the President of the Confederate
States with procuring the passage of unconsti
tutional laws and of taking and keeping to him
self a vast power and patronage—which the
States said solemnly in the great grant of pow
er that he should never have.
We charge that he has intentionally broken
down the great Constitutional law which allows
to the people tho right to vote upwn the contin
uance ofany war every two years, in the election
of members of the House of Representatives.
We charge him with usurping the power,
through the operations of the law of Tax-in-
Rind, of an indefinite continuance of the war
beyond the power es the people, or the control
of a future Congress—save by a repeal
which he might vxercise the veto power; or he
might by the movement of an army, prevent
entirely the assembly of Congress.
We charge nim with usurping and taking to
himself, the vast powers of the despotisms of
the old world, from whose accursed rule our
revolutionary sires feught seven long years to
get free. With taking upon himself the im.
mense appointing power and patronage which,
was by the law of the Coaitltution, to be dis
tributed among the states in exact proportion
to the number of their troops or piiiitia.
j Upon ids : -1. u. and sbat of his tools in Con-
I gross, re ' ; . violated oaths, and an
[ almost ruin
Wo may song: -ay refer again to the long
list « tljp Constitution—
j the denial of the u writ of Habeas Corpus,
in order* to sustain W cants without “oath or
affirmation and to .ae fresh crimes and usur
pations with which we me threatened by Con- ,
grass. For the pits nt, however, we are con
tent to call attention to the two great pillars
of the Constitution—to wit : the separation of
tire purse from Gift Executive, and the distri
bution of army p tron. ge among the States.
The hands of the would be Sampson at Rich
mond are around them both ; and the grand
edifice of®ln nan liberty —erected on tho!
bones of the hero dead, .and upon whose high j
altar tho hi ■■ i,u .. and widowhood and
tJrpbaaige of a ; t vci people have been laid—
is irembiin; t,. hs ill a l fall.
We may in a i’uutfe article, show how tho
foie of I lie Revolution is inseparably linked
v-ith the riv of the people and the stability
of the Constitution. For the present, we
buts.: ;?st, tint when again the Chief Magisj
tram cads r.o supplicating sovereignties of
this sunny land to join him in prayer — that he,
like the old priest of Israel, even Aaron, shall
fust wash hie clothes nod purify himself. Let
him recall the oath hi took when inaugurated
President, aau ask his own heart how it- has
been kept.
Tho two sons of Aa: m —who offered strange
upon ILo alter of God, perished— and pray
ers without repentante, and humiliation and
fasting, with a resolve toccntisue the sin—will
not prosper the man who makes them or the
people who trusfr them. The same power which
pa-.: -fi -toe i,sib— may condemn the people
who com’, one to permit such outrages upon
their own righls. and such mockery of truth.
W HOIJI liOME THU f Siß.
The Charles;:;.. Mercury,.under tho head of
“Face the Difficulty,” speaks out very plain
and in an unmistakab’e manner. The causes
of tire disaster aud i Blares in tbjs revolution
are laid before the jw>.- pie in such a way that
those who r ad • :n understand who is to blame
for all our mb,.oil tines Incapacity, misman
agement-aud misrule Love allogether too long
held fail sway in iho conducting of bur public
affairs. It is high time that the people pause'
and ask I • .vfiither are a dtiftiug.”
Tue ar'-i'-i :of mo Mercury contains truths—
wholesome truths. Hero it is:
FACE' THE DIFFICULTY.
When Abr.-.o’.va Lincoln took the chair of the
Presidency 1 too United (States, he promised
ia llis Hat boat I,ago. to "ran the machine as
he found it.” Whether ho has strictly kept
his promise, those may doubt who chose to
consider ti e eubj' Ct It is ejongu for us to
knbw, t • whether “running (us machine” in
the p nth way of ! i .-'P’ i duoessore, or not, he has
run if wish ;i Kur il, . liexibu: purpose, a bold
steady hand, a- vigilant, active eye, u sleepless
energy, a fanatic spirit, and an eye single to his
end— conqiic.- emancipation. He has called
around him, in council, the ablest and most
’earnest ma.i of 1:1s country. Where he has
lacked In iiKh/'-'‘'ial ability, experience or
statesman '.dp, fie bus sought it, and has found
it iu the able men about him, whose assistance
ho unhesitatingly accepts, whoso powers he
applies to ilia advancement of theeauso he has
undertaken. In tire cabinet and in the field
he has constantly and fearlessly pressed, on the
aAarcli form; a w(jo could advance Ms cause,
and has as ivuhiaitatingiy cat off all those who
clogged it v. oh win * ae.-s, timidity, imbecility
or failure Force, energy, brains, earnestness,
he has collected around him in every depart
meat- Blackgur.nl and buffoon as he is, he
hits pursued Jfi* end with on energy as untiring
as mi Indian, end :? singleness of purpose that
might almost be called patriotic. - It ne were
not an ur,re: upnlou:-1- uuve in bis end, and a
fanatic in his political views, no would un
doubtedly coma.aed onr respect as a ruler, so
fat as we tue concerned. Abroad aud at home
he has ex se the same e jasuless ener
gy and cu'cimbecefdon.
W r e turn our eyes to Richmond, and the con
trast is appnltim:. sickening to the heart. In
the Cabinet, an I iu C -.-.ptcss, in the conduct
of foreign affair:. ’n tho military service, from
the comut iadiii -; .generals to quartermaster
clerks, everywhere there resigns -a pademoai
urn of imbecility, laxity, weakness, failure.
Not that there are not many brave and able
men iu the army. We have an abundance of
both. . But that they are so circumscribed aad
controlled as to produce weakness through
out. In the beginning of the war, when we
had the basis upon •■■■ hick to have established
a linn, solid tia.tueiai system, all efforts 'were
vain, all counsel vaip, to have anything done
with a view to a lisc*i, financial system. A
inach’ne was put in motion, and brown paper
was shuffled off upon the country with Mr.
Benjamin's or Mr. luemminger’s countenance
stamped upon it—and this ‘was called
“money." Vaur vere ail attempts to have a
navy luiß. until it was too late, whan cur
ports wt 1< . ind Etlrope had refused
| *<> allow ships of ,-.r to be built for ua in her
! ship y Dec.. forsooth, if was too “ex
! pensive”—“where was the money to come
irom?"
Claim: ;g to Iks a nationality, our Executive
did not c\ t A-re send its ministers abroad to
foreign Courts; but satisfied Itself with petty
comuiis--- .- .-tv, dangling about the doors of
Earl R-.-s.w P and Lord Palmerston, while all
the rest of Europe and the world, except France,
were ignored. Crawling at tbo feet of tho
world, we ciaimed to bo it.-; equal. Nor was our
diplomacy, in the inducements hc-ld out to Eu
rope to receive n--, any better than our external
method of approach. Both exhibited the same
weakness, efia -v short-sightedness, in
einoieucy, th r !:•-••. » characterized every act of
the govern... -n! : -very department, from the
inidatioa of the w.-.r to this hour. In friend3,
ia counsellors, in the Cabinet-, in Congress, not
men of force, ofen eigy, of will, o? wisdom, or
knowledge : *r ■ -pej.eiice are sought for; but
tools and sycopit -’its, mu men subservient to
Mr. Davis’ will sad whims and dictations, are
thrust forward and kept in places of vital im
portance, whilst the country reels and stag
►■e.B under the fearful burden ot their ht:iu
fess counsels, and their imbecile actions.—
Mcst lamenULoie of mi ..ud most fatal, is the
condition of the army. For it is there where
hefreds on the one i. -no, and favoritism on the
other, strike deepest their root?, and poison
most fatally the wd springs of our military
actions. It i there where toe fuming passions
of the En-cuiive peliy tyranny strike most
direcito’ at the i.earf of he Confederacy by a
corrupt and unscrupui- e£e:cise of delega
ted power, in proscribing and ejecting from
position, or forcing entirely out of the service,
the very* fore arcs mditary men iu America;
1 whilst men aotoriou-iy incompetent are made
thepivot3of our desnoies.
- ,-a the applicable alone to
the leaders of armies; but ou every side we
see peity favorites i.iiod up to promotions and
pu-hei in.o positions of importance, while
men of magnificent gallantry and accomplish
ed rabid.' are suffered ft> fight on in the ranks,
or to fait ra some position of inferior command.
Political tools are re.varded with commissions
as Brigadier and Major Generals, whilst their
friends, relations and ftcquaiatadces generally
fill up the lower grades of promotion. N. .
oldiers to lead armies"are sought, hut e■ i
tures to whine at the foot of the Extcativc: or
else, honest, bat incompetent man are made
use of, as sticks to Lay ever the ii, .ala of srino
personal pet hatred. As a a inevitable ccnae
quence, laxity and inefficiency ■ - ery
wu«3 in the army. Imbeciles and coed for
naughts hold high cotnml-ifions- and low com
missions—there is no responsibility anywhere
j — no discipline is enforced— men straggle and
dc-.-ri—even officers do the same. But fav
orites cannot be shot, or cashiered, and :t
would not do R>r “Uncle Jeff” to make him
self unpopular with the men,’ by allowing the
penalties of military law to be execute I.
Thus contempt of officers and official sentences
amongst the men, and contempt of Jaw and
orders among the officers is spread broad-cast
throughout our armies. More gallant men
never stood in the ranks— a more inefficient
organization never disgraced the science of
war. Never was a cause more entkii:... icai -
ly loved by a soldiery—-e ver was/ao mvh
power, in numbers, in euthiishism, In er.i.u
ranee, la courage, so frittered away, Ifi broken
down, so misapplied, so utterly d.s mixed,
fey an ineradicable vice of unscrupulous ad
ministration * *
We say to all earnest, brave men in. this
land, that the time has come, and will speed!
ly have passed, when they must lift up their
hands with an iron will, Snd say to the Exe
cutive authority of this government—“this
thing shall be dene; or that thing shall not be.
done! Do as we command, or vacate your po
sition.”
This—or failure, is the a rernacivo.
HAS GEORGIA IjEH DUTY.
“A Georgia paper says the gallant Tennessee
an* are still Hocking to General Hood’s stan
dard. This may be so, and we hope is, but
somehow the conviction is forced ripen - us
that Hood, his standard and “the gallant Ten
nesseeans’ arc flocking out of Tennessee. We
cannot see what is to be gained by t! o at-,
tempts to keep up decep ion There hew been
no uprising in Tennessee arid but prfioi us lit
tle in Georgia, such is the truth, and we might
as well admit it.”— Baleigh Progress
The above paragraph wc clip iron: a recent
issue of the italslgfi ‘'Progress,” and the fuur
that is designed to be ca-t ac the tirioiL-.m of
this State is undeserved aud uncalled 'tori
Had the Editor of the “Progro a” taken the
trouble to have informed him-adr of in
fects, we are inclined to tho belief that lie
would never have written thcrqbove, but as he
has neglected to do this, and'has attempted to
place the people of this State in an impriavr
light before the pub 11 \we feel c : fid * upon,
both injustice to the people and’for the edifi
cation of the Editor or the “Progress,” to cor-
rect the error, so that if a siibSUi iim.i.aUo.
is indulged in again, the public may know
that it is but a nefarious attack upon tho State.
According to she census of 1860, Nor^h Caro
lina had 67,529 more white population than
Georgia, aud we will venture Uio a .cation that,
she has not furnished more troops to the Coa
•federate States army (hia Georgi* bas. Ac
the least calculation, she has fumiou. u 100-
000 men, and \v@ wish to know ii North Caro
lina ha-s done more. According to the last re
port of the Adjutant General of North Caro
lina, that State had furnished about one hun
dred and twenty regiments to the axmy of the
Confederate States. That Georgia Las dune
too, although North Carolina Las over sixty
thousand ore white population than t : . .
State.
But has Georgia done nothing else? Let
the enemy who have been desolating her soil
for the past six months answer, or examine
the reports of the battles that have been
fought in this State, and see what troops were
engaged. V' eu the last conscription Bill
was passed, c, uscribir.g ail between .the ages
of seventeen and eighteen and forty- five and
fifty, orders wore immediately is. usd in this
State—so also in North Carolina—requiring
ho immediate organization of this class, —
After the organization what do we find? In
Georgia these reserves are placed regularly on
duty, while in North Carolina tL. are fur
; toughed aocnj after their oqt-inlzatian.' Ve
believe that they have been recently called
out and ara now perhaps in the field. Those
of this State have not been so fortunate; they
,have had no furloughs and have been on as
hard duty as soldiers ia the field, if wc except
the item of marching. •
But does Georgia stop at tub? By no
means. Ia May her regular Militia were
exiled out and in July all between the ages of
sixteen and fifty five were added to them.—
Since this date they have been in the !:■ id and
performing all the duties of a Coin soldier.—
General Hood has beeiuhqard to say that they
fought as well as auy troops he ever bad un
der him, and indeed, does their record not
attest this fact? Who was it that fought the
enemy at East Mr.ccn, at Giiswo’dvills, at
Oconee bridge, and at Honey Hill, B. C , if
not the Georgia Militia?
But let us return and enquire of tho Editor
of the‘‘Progress’’ if the Militia of his State
have done as have those of tbi.-;? Wo well
know that he cannot reply in tho affirmative.
Recently we thick that Gov. Vance has called
out the Militia, but this Editor should remem
ber that Georgia has hail her Militia and Re
serves in the field for over six months.
It is true Sherman marched through our
State, and he can likewise march through North
Carolina, if no more assistance is given by the
Confederate Government, than was given Geor
gia. If the whole of the Army of Tennessee,
with the Georgia Reserves and Militia, were
unable to slop tfca marsh of Gen. Sherman to
Atlanta, we are unable so see how any sano
man oould expect the Militia and • Reserves,
with a few insufficient cavalry, to atop him on
his march to Savannah. Taking everything
into consideration, wa assert, without fear of
contradiction, that, according to the popula
tion of Georgia, s’l; has furnish-, -.1 more men
and given more suppoit to tbo Government
than any other State in the Confederacy. ' U-r
thank? for this, then, is to.have her territory
overran and b< r property laid waste. Let the
Editor of the Raleigh Progress in future, when
ho wrier?, acquaint himself of lire subject upon
which he writes, and then perhaps he can do
justice.— Macon ionfcdcracy.
Plot to Escape it.om Casti.c Thckdeu.—Re
cently Captain Richardson. Lie commandant
at Castle Thunder, received inform?.Hon
through a prisoner 4hat the prisoners confined
in the citizens’ room had formed a plot to es
cape, and had prepared weapons to light their
way out, and murder the guard and eflioars if
they were opposed. The inmates of the room
were all placed under surveillance, and a
search made in the room for evidences of the
plot. Three holes, large enough to admit a
man’s body, were found, one leading down in
to the room adjoining the office on the fir.it
fl oor, one penetrating the large room ou the
North, and a third opening into the room on
the bonth. Arms, such as knives and pistols,
were found secreted in these openings, and no
doubt remained in the minds ot too prison
officials but that a desperate attempt at oi.cape
was contemplated. Lieut. Vernon, fount! y
ordnance officer of Major Atkinson, now iu con
; fiaeraent upon grave charges, is suspected of
; being the ringleader of the plot, but libs L?
: most emphatically denies. The ioareh for
anas, <S»c., ia stiii progressing.
The discovery of this plot will, we appre
j hend, interfere with thoffreoacces of vi e.
j to prisoners heretofore enjoyed, as i* is : asp ret
! ed that both aims and implements weio ( mi
i Teyed to the prisoners by tnis system of com
i muaication. — Richmond Examiner.
! Lincoln has remitted the sentence of the court
i martial upon Acting Rear-Admiral Wiikes to
a period of one year from its date, the Beaterca
i having suspended him three yeart from the
i service.
VOL. I.xklY."- SI Rl]
CG.M’KDERA A. , V »•; ..
SEX ATE —DEO. 30.
I A ill was introduced to r.mrnd she - pevcrul
j ac • iu k aud lo military storekeepers of erd
nauce. R- f rred.-
A resolution waft adopted *that tlie Coninit
tee on Mililaiy Aa.ilrs be instructed to inquire
into tne exj« di ney •. ’ ir.crer.sihg the number
and rank ol officers ia the engineer Curps of
the i‘ii.. Ii ’, rial rrmy.
‘The Juibclary Committee reported back the
Seriate bill to guard against the improper con
struction of the tax laws by officers entrusted
w.th the execution of tbe t-mic. Postponed
tiil Monday.
Tho following coir.n unicaticn was laid before
the Sona’c by the Ch.r.r :
TilllAEßny IfiI'iETJIRN’T, C. 8. A., )
Richmond. Ya., Deo. 28, 1864. j'
“ Hon. A. 11. Stephens,
President Confederate States Senate :
“ Sir : Under a regulation of this depart
mi o.' , dated ( ijfh ol '.red. tc.lt, fc ; :
maskers tfi aii.p:,: ;i r. j Ooufi iierato S’.
W'-ro authof'zad to dm .fit the old issues in
T hif.."lH, telongi-ig to the Postofli. 1 Dc-
Uil:i:l‘a-t. Vv’iia till) dVpOir:'t Xr fit feOSI.COUVC- |
nient to them.
“as most of the fi- , . of the Govern
ment Were C'.vfi. i .... : ! a,; :o..'r, r ;
tea. under tlie act of F-. >•. nary ITt':;. j fit; 1 , {fi
:i:art a p!cccd i a ilair bs. s' : hr' ;ha :\r : :
krinna in q.ie ticn are cot - .fi . toih<s di fits
of the J’ooteasfir tfincral ia the us . imav ;
ner : but v, ill inh easury- as
the misceUaueoa.) rtc. ,■ .:.
“ In Older that, tb ■. Postin'!; c Dr ••'•r.r-.er;
, may receive the benefit of tiii e : rids, it i
proposed to Congress to authorize their appro
priation for that pnrp se.”
The communication was referred to the Fi
nance Committee.
Kocsi; —d::o. 80.
The following re.-, >luti ;.iwere ; u .
That the Com mi Ac 3 on Qiiarfeniuist-rs and
Oomuv.s-arie;' icq-.uie into the expediency of
allowing bonded *>gricußurists to exchange
their surplus produce for articles neotsnary to
the suppu.t of their families. • Also, coat they
inquire info the propriety of remitting the
at iix to lie paid by bond - ? agriculturists
c-.oeil too iciiinais have been e.iptuu'.i by the
enemy Also, that they inquire whether ra
tions have been or are being rfiw issued to
auy of the Amide clerks in tho empi< yuc nt of
the Gove .'i.mcnt, in;d .1 : aby v, tic ’ a;;.tio:." -
ty, and by whom the same wi re issued Also,
that they inquire into the expediency of re
porting"* bill providing for the cx iN.sion of
tile law giving ceiipcnsutiou for tjuves em
ployed upon loailicarioi;-:, so us to apply its
provisions to slaves employed iu ether Govern
ment service.
That the Military Comtni te icq; i: .• iuto
expeitioiiy of pvovhliii.r b.v law; . ta.. übo:i
-1* a of po.Si coin!:..
cities, towns, vi!l:, c - iia'i . |
die taut from lit ... : ield
That s the Judicie-ry C;.i i: . .1 a um .
report .upon tho exp, liia.cy of ovidb •( by
few for tho pay ml nt of ,'ly b c:, anq to
' ■ . ‘destroyed or .k< . t6v u eia tl,. gon
oGuctieu or iick. ee of military woifcu.
A hilt was passed to admit ice.- 1 ty ar
tfia s donated for the use of ii-,' .; Pi'..a...
i'he following were i ciorrod : A bid loamend
the act creating iho office of ei.s g-i in tno J.
8. army so as to ex'.. Iha office » cav
•<fi y as well ns tl.c iathisd'y ; to pr-vvlde fir
; Jie appointment oi n.i additional cleric iu the
1 Bureau of l’nblio Printing; to ame'-fi thu t-.cr
.rnuifttiag tiado an.; nause win. ifie in
dians ; lo j.,rov; 'a more i.t eic :lly for oartyiiar
into c-tfi c'( ::; treaty with the Gherokee ludians;
for cii-j .eiiefof the Indiin uatio s h .v;,..iu
fioa'ios lmve been-made fir the Cons-.-:. rate
Btales; lo authorise marshals end their di au
ric to certain cas -s.
The i-.-’ti ■ ■ took up lor consider,tried iiAflifil
“to faciii! to the SeUtcment of c.aiinsy of de
ceased soldiers.” *
[1 ho hiii provides that th.-vo shall bo ap
pointed by tha President, Ly and w : l; the , .1-.
vice and consent . ■
Officer Os til.; ftocvaj Do-;;;-;., to Vj cal:
eel tho Fourth Auditor, who sUMi j • c- uirged
i< au iting of
ctrs and soldiers, who sbiui re ceive for his
services a saJ:i-y ot five f.’.ouietisu five ! :i.i
dollurs per annual; aud tms cU-,';-.J iorce ia •
said cili,is :- c of oce ; ir . c will:
a salat y of five ;housa: and dolfai liannm,
and a Register with a i : ,t-y <fl -. 0 usai and j
dollars' per annu a, uud <m-o’ - a-. .-itvMion !
for each .State, -iho -. :: r.i b, . •« aof :
•State represented by .ii.-; divi- >n, wtt'a s;.:ai
of four thousand doilais per annum oaeE. and *
such other vie:teal forco as m.-.y b .. :.1 1
necessary by the Seciotaay of toe V: ... urv.
That the clerks in cacti division, other nhaii
tliuse at present employed in the tettlcmen of
these claims, thail be appointed from ohizans
of a State represented in thedivision t» which
they arc appointed, and who are not liable to
conscription, and that said Auditor and Lis
clerks shall ba hereafter entirely exempt from
military duty, except such as may be required
ia the preservation and defened of the public
property in their charge.]
Tho House took up the bill “ to protect tha
Confederate States against frauds, and to pro
vide remedies aga-'ust .officers and employees
ot the Government .commit tmg them "
This bill provides “ that in ail cases where
tho officers or employees iu lh« Qnai-im-maste
er’a and Commissary’s Departments shall have
received public money for disbursement, or
shalf have been concerned in milking contracts
for the Government, ii shall be the duty of
each person so employor concerned, within
three months after she pas tag* of this of. and
every six mo :tb- thereafter, to fij.. on inven
tory or schedule in writing, ou ofili, of idl the
property, teal, pereonat and mixed which he
poc?. si-.-d at the im- «.••• iii;> Cutry ir.td t.m pub
lic service, and the TaiueTucreof Tbi < inven
tory or schedule shall further contain a state
ment—
“l. Os all p’-epert.y of cwry iR cription
which he msy posse:-; in hi? own riqi.t at ihe
tamu of bis making and roiii'i l . a ■
“11. Os ail property of.every description
purchased'or possessed since his cutty into the
public service, anu so (1 - t.-m.-sferred byhu i.
“HI. Os all property «.• every d>-.si-iption,
including biiis of exciia.-ge, prom : - ty aoU-s,
stocks, sbaies, mortgag.-ot-rtiiij-sc . of de
posit, rights and credits, tec » m -sifip of
which has been changed, and in which he has
or may have had an interest since his entry
into the public service.
“IV. Os all property of every description
and pecuniary intm n at© r <1 . oca his m y
iqtb the public service, and 1 « in th i name i
of his wife, or any in ember of iiis I amity, or j
held in the name of another for the use or ben- {
efit, or iu f:uit for himself, his wife, or any i
member of his family.
“V. Ah
bijls of , proinicsory infies, certificate j
of shares ia any c-mruny or bank, I
whether corporate fir i:fc:>rpui'atn, acquired in j
whole or in [ irt ai.oco hi3 entry ioto*the pub
lic service by him-elf or his wife, or any s
member of ids family. j
• • VI. A statement of the indebtedness of said :
officer or emyloj tv, which has been paid or |
o ... .- -e u. . -ng i .f... o hi: entry into pub J
; b-tv •, s-ivffig the name and residence of j
the creditors.
The on. provides that “should the schedule
disclose an accumulation of property, leal,
pcm.nua; r inix .i, bo-yon.i the natural !ncr«t : e
(.lioTovi, t..e Aujat,mt and LinpeCtor •—-.m ir.
aid tho cl-.ik of fire District Ccuit, uli roiry
the Confederate States Ati'jn.vy itr iba i
trict where the officer or e:. •.-!->■,(-.• .a.
i schedule my be, arid t , ,01- trict - tori.oy
j shall cause a summon to be te-u- and by the qiejk
•o: s-iiti o> .trict, remni.wie at L - ; c- -:c .
| to said officer -r wnpfoyca, »..d ii> it . .as
; on their ..ffi- -M bond, ic :: c ~ . way fer
; tl«er proceedings should not be ordered, Ac
i should said accumulation be not eaUSfac'-ority
1 accounted for to the court,the court thail direct
’ Vto n », I# » rules regulating
■
j shrii prevail sxh. .. I :;t , • i of proof
! shiili hi , • • to show
j ih t iho . (jui• . v...n i. fifihi -ay ,;!>i ,ined.
i, u> IU‘- fi. .‘is ■ ?.,■(>! fi •- ■ ■ .o person
now in com mi, n . nit, ■. * ■ : s-haii be
purmitled tore: i.. i, n ih: i.si , . ally com
plied with the pK vi. 'oni . act, but a
verdict mid jn<igi:inen‘ such officer
shell have the cffe.it of i .a ... mission
and he shat! be CouscrlbtM u to miiita
ly service during tlto exi ■ in, . ”
Pending the c •a : :• on oi fi,. bill tbo
lluuso adjourned.
[From Uttamb inquirer.]
hl'rltd'K ',S I*»» £•.•'•»:? iidSHIP,
There is goi;:-the rou’-’ .f i papers a
proposition “to fi fie ■ O-es- and v..;y and go
back, to England. «• s It
lie not tr.. *i.to ■■ •’ ■ :’v "!' \f trea—
'on is- The tli. ... • ’• ly ti-.'servea
tho noon or; . or, for bc
r. ides im-. ; .iu::c i s ai ■ udii - . ■ o j.; : aong na
j tiouft. ■. o;dt) and giviug
ta 1 and comfort to t. enti’i'y.
o : \ ■ ■ • it
time wifi- Hwc m : r v. f one, and
each one !: -n*: .:.•*•. • • ./( "ter the others
sharels fi . ••. i , ..1 t> >t we
should do: n'c ■■'. .. •! Is Cuba so
free ajul happy A five fi.- v. M>.t Spain?
Docs Tre ih so < -..a that
we should WMh :Irq;:..:. ■ fiil.e them?
That Canada In. mfi' aol 1 ■, yis only
ii. tiuiio theD ■ ::.iA fi. i :.a i Slates
will go!-b!e if u:> ; t -A iho iua llghfer
Go bi.ckt Eng! -ill i L-; of W«ihjng.
ton an.l onr K : i jrbid! Let
cot their bleed he . a if ours ii!
Ferbs.tl.i-v ec; v tie:; fights us
thftu to eccfi.v ■. oni \ tv. i o tee that
laughs tit and■: " a <■’ ■
Gobaca to i: , ; : Ufy years ago
she pnbiiciy :■■ ■ finry action
an id( - African
slave trad aei or.: r t :. • ... fi S mlhern
slaves might icm -oduce the
very war bet wc •> , - ,• ,i free that
now desolat: : . ! 'fii i, •arch Eng
-1 ad's a• a ■'. . , *, ' ■ VI. lUg 13
there—'.: ii war • found ition
w s there laid; fim :■ , ,prophesied
“that a limited supp yof . . j Tihijaboi
wouid soon malla tioui I r:i •* • :■ .> cdStiv a3
that it would bti:: < . . -he iroe
iabor of mft’niiacr.u . ; t. . ot course,
wii'.t Ibo che:!,- : • ■ cr p t.e
with Europe in e -i; it ', witbboid
im> the Atricau ruv. ' fi i ; South
ern labor ~i eiri.'i'ia. . ■ .aid, “she
could destroy the rnal fire and
block I” Aclsh jL.fi.- o . !
Go bad: to L=.. •. r"■ ilo •this war
by depriving us < traffic v.i:h
fi .1' * V '
instead of* a profit! hire would recognize as
i,. ’fi Vo ... •
are fool.i enough to be wiiH:i;_j ;o do wtat our
. ' di": ' 0
■so fi'.; Northern I • 1 . i.^movr
K'irtli-’rn Ijoast, v/l«i- ••• fi.r owy fi . Amefi-
Cdu wealth, power uekl c. u ... roe will tumble
d-.v.fii in oiw g:c:.d .• •• I;: y and coi
toii bags, and West l-s-tfes. au<\ Ea. i.-m cotton
will then make her the mis.reiM c manufec-’.
ture, con'.!.: rcc, i.i.u a; .'i-’i. And this,
v .•..i.fij ’ !-3 •„ .a. ia; we won
! OV. ' ra a'. .
I Go : . t. .At; • A thoß&anil
times.- sj ■,V : cw.!i own i.u-.v.d ■ whipped
v.. ■ wc .. . it to fate
iiKe men r ; .0 aid to the
open ion, th.-Ji i-> ta ...: oa.irous, con
salea enemy, th . • 1 woe.
'
The r-cal-.fierirc so ■■■ l-.i ouo gv»l,
often n:-r.v-sns forget to ' or. - Miuncvila
of-an t-iitml mnguitu-ie ...i.anCe. Wo
lire at war with the >' --or, —that is
one of the eviis which . <. u-. -r to en
croachuien 3. Rti is upon
iw. in whic . is ini
Oig-rfy «i tiso 3 .'Ur :i ?{>.» inditf
• UK)
k.s, mid a practical w t •' ... for Iho
li. lusoi i!u.:AM~.j. .. t^rd'ed
erate Corn du:ion was r-.- . I-. and
tl. .rit is as-ester. ; ...j that
fko States retained their gov enty, perfect
and complete L I'o.-y . ~.'V, ~n.-bloor
: ' '
States now. If they were ;ut ShHcs then they
‘did all that sovereign
made aConscilath.il, oiq;.. I.- .... r n::•,vnl
ud pu its »• i( -lit. ■. . ' , h iini
State ci Georgia is in q • . by v.-.iat
power of right docs ti.o Coni, - .. .- >veru- •
meat regulate the Mgricuiiarai oroducle of
the State ot‘Georgia? 'That i.-: n riv-u inherent
to a sovereign State only. Wh it! au agent
created by a prinnqaii .-nail dir. . : control
affairs expressly retcrv,-.? by f, '.i-.a.i.
Where in the IJ.. mcrii f-■:.• , mn, are
to be ibiltld, i-ithci csp;-e;-:eil tf.tsexa
traordinary powers ciaimcu aunex. i ,l| hy tha
trol tire productions of the - tate; in ot tier words
the power to bring evr rj ci
under the direct e-.m-": of tbo Couiedemta
Government, by raying to whom-he -ball sell
his product-,and to whom hen'-. im i them.
This is tbo rxeioise of a w 'ver not granted
oy the State and untiutaoi.z . 1 ■ ..overeigu
ty of the States.
What is a sovereign tv- .. t,n ir.de
pondent, se;:i.u,.L) a- ; o!.- i > - if, and
as each must bo, or o gbt u, ;,e. in-;--pendent
in its action. N >-»•• • ■ at <• bo
inifepcndu'it that It.v.tuov: tong,
tc: Igii utivc, ■» ivi . 0...i r.K.,. ua,
without w permit.
'i he Btit'e of Georg , . • c xercke
■ of the r-ght to ex.jui i... .a- i.eiii of
| h-.r .-.oldie • bib.; if.. . « itd tells
j the parent wh.riit mi- ■■■■. : vrli-i it may
{ do, and wfial i. may no. ... .u c.y out,
'itis no time for the pa:-:.. ai> i-igiits.
j The child in in a fight—the it no : vield,
jso.lfogus the fight lasts. H ; sovereign right
| to govern LI,, family and <1 I o . :.oi >L<i
| produces of his eat Re, mu - i> wi- .-*lllOll u.i
--! tiil tha fi-.ht is over: ; • t t ou—iiu
: Vv.it UeVel gov- U . .. ■
Tub Co*J..Quastio.n‘. —Tlie ‘..- e.viug leftor io
tbo custom house officer .. the petition
;... lU. -. II 1.... ' • -....a veiineis
! coaling iu L-sgi: n p:-r-;:
Bm:—lam directed toacqn it you for your
»t|i
j vcc-.-iv.'-u a commuob -ben >i- fiords of
< • • »ury, |tati ,p lai a 1 p Ricatioa had
f
1 questing perm!.-::<*.'»? to < .. on
board the • - ■■ at
Dove?, to eaatoe her r; «. .
autkthit in reply K ,:i L.,
that this vessoi h:-d been ;. ...<! vi.-h «7.V
teas of coal at Cork ou tl , , aud
i with a turtat.-r sitj ply of i’i.ie >uih
on the 17 1 ■o< August, i. .. • . ; :- ii- vera
: tX&lll /Mill ■ -
j tiooa O r » this tuhjcC , • tJax'b l; j . :\..uoiiUo
j to be aomta c- a: ii ;.t any p■: the United
-
j train the . :':.*zd and
A clr r,Tug.; vo ... ~°~7- ... it
- e-.uth and up to tee Lye.. »
1 ..-rileie-:;. ho»vevur, Vt-.e .->■ “ 0
: their outhohses wen < -j es nro
: the; a'-'‘ by some to Lv.ve ■■-<■■■■ vwk o|
iuceuaiarres.