Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-08-18
ty, there will be Io4 cadets to be educated,


these, at $3.50 each. will create an annual
Add expenditures Of Military Bill 1900 1900
And We have grand total of. SIG, 000
This sum of $4,000, is liable to be spent
the present year. The specific appropriation
| will not extend beyond the current year, but
| the items for the education of cadets are per-
manent, and create an annual draft on the
Treasury of SO, 600.
| First, the Legislature provides for the call
certain cOntingeney-a contingency which
which violates no RICH is of the State, and is
| in accordance with the constitution and the
law-and then it provides for the raising,
arming and equipment of q standing army of
! eight thousand men, subject to the exclusive
| order, control ard direction of the Gov
| ernor. AS if conscious of the uDpatriotic,
| not to say reasonable, design of the move
ment, the adoption Of a STATE Flag is required.
| The glorious stars and stripes, the ensign of
| the republic, which waved over our armies in
the revolution. and commands for our nation
respect in every quarter of the world, on the
| land and on the sea, no longer inspires them;
and it must give place to a flag recognized
nowhere, and like the piece of bunting that
| flies from the masthead of pirate vessel,
| the insignia of unlawful authority and
crime.
This military organization is contrary to
| the genius and spirit of our government.
The revolutionary fathers apprehended great
dangers to our institutions from the DISPOSE
ton OF military spirits to usurp authority.
Viewing the future through the history of the
| past they feared that our institu tons might
become the prey of military ambition, and
the republic for which they had fought and
bIed, eyentuate in military despotism
| Hence the smallness of our standing army,
and the reliance which has been placed in
| the proves of the people. The standing
army provided for by the Alabama Legisla-
| ture is almost as large as that of the United
! States. How loug viii 1t be, after it is fully
! organized, armed, and equipped, before 1t
| will have power to drown the voice of the
people of the State, and 10 control their des-
| TIMES? Leaving out ct view the burdens OF
inconvenience and discomforts to which the
volunteers are subjected in being required to
drill twelve times a year, or more, there Is
nothing to commend the measure TO the con-
| servative and patriotic rejecting citizen. 1T
| forebodes evil, and only evil. Furthermore,
the 18th section is an infractiOn of the con-
stitution of the United States, inasmuch as it
makes the troops raised Subject oniy' to the
order of the Governor of the State. The Sth
section of the constitution confers OF Con-
gress the power
''To provide for calling forth the militia TO
execute the laws of the Union, suppress in
surrectiOns, and repel inyasiOns.
TO provide for organizing, armng, and
disciplining the militia" &c.
If the troops are part OF the State mill
tia, it is a plain violation of this provision to
make them ''subject only to the order of the
Governor of the State. If they are not re-
garded as a part of the State militia, then
they are "troops" within the meaning of the
10th section of the constitution of the United
States, and the act is null and void
In the enactment of this law we have an
instance of the effective operation of the
Southern Leaguers upon Legislature-and
we are told by Mr.. YANCET that the Leaguers
might be used to influence parties, statesmen
and Legislatures. The law was drawn up by
Hon. W. P. Chiffon, a law partner of Mr..
YANCEY, and was doubtless submitted to the
| inspection of the latter gentleman. 1t was
artfully pressed upon the Legislature at
time when the people of Alabama, cad
| the people of all the Southern States
| were incensed, justlp incensed and ex-
cited, by the invasion of Virginia by
abolition ruffians under the lead OF
JOHN BRowN. At such time. conservative
men were not likely to scrutinize the motives
of the leaders who proposed the measure; or,
| if so disposed, were not willing to have
| their own motives impeached in opposing
u measure which might be necessary to pro-
| tect their constituents against instructions.
| To sieZe such an occasion, when they might
| shelter themselves under patriotic pretense,
and entrap the unwary, was shrewd on the
part of the secessionists, and was, we suspect,
| the chief means of their success. After
struggle for nearly decade, the secession
| lists had attained much larger share of infu-
ence and strength in the Legislature than
usual, but there were men who voted for the
bill who would not now do it, and
who would not then have done it, had
they dreamed of another step which was to
| follow. That step was the following resOlu-
tions. the third and last of the series of meas
ures of the Legislature setting their house
| In order p
! Joint RESOLUTIONS