Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1861-09-11

CONGRESS ADJoURE ED.-The Congress of
the Confederate States adjourned on the 31st
of August, to meet agin on the Sd Monday
in November next, unless sooner convened
by call of the President. The Richmond
Examiner says the hst hours of the session
were marked by the passage of many acts of
great wisdom and propriety and especial
ly instances the passage of the ~"Sequestra-
ton Act, as a magnificent instance of time
ly retaliatory justice, which will commend
i~tselfto the approval of every patriotic citizen
of the Confederaey. It's effect upon the en-
envy will be like those of a ten-inch Column
bad striking a small ishing-smack between
wind and water. It will teach the insolent
Yankees that "coniscation" and 'sequestra-
ton are games at which both parties to a
war can play. Upto the present time the
Yankees have conducted this contest as if
they were Algerines or Moors, and regarded
pillage as the great object of belligerents.
They have burnt houses, laid waste plan
%tations, stolen horses, killed cattle, induced
slaves to run away, and robbed hen-roosts.
To this they have added rape and murder
Hundreds, if not thousands, of negro slaves
have been carried, and are now employed, III
the army and navy of the Lincoln despotism
The declarations of the Yankee press, tina
this is to be a war of confiscation and sub
~jugation, have been acted out to the lette
by the invading sssnk Butler, the late Of
icer in command at Old Point, when a POI
ton of his force was withdrawn for the pro
lection of Washington, regretted the circum
stance, because it would interfere with tn
capture Of a large number Of negroes" thu
unblushingly p~roclaiming that his missio
; was to rob and confiscate.
e By the fagitious acts of the enemy OF
: citizens have already lost hundreds Of thor
: sands, if not millions, of dollars worth
u property, and as the circle of war erlarg
$ the losses of our people will increase. A
n Southern property which the enemy ha
II been able to seize they have appropriated
!, their own use or destroyed. Not content
!" with what they have been able to seize al
OCStIOyS III WI a. 80 =
T. ira session, passed an act confiscating,
y implication, all property, personal and re
= belonging to loyal citizens of the Confede
ate States. By the provisions of the va
kee confscation act, if We are conquered, t
whole property of the South will be ooni
" Gated millions will be beggared, and G
; real and personal estate divided out amo
the hungry and inscriptions soldiery
% Lincoln.
m The Congress of the Confederate Sta
have met this infamous legislation of
Us Yankees in the proper spirit.
They have passed a "Sequestration Az
ne which makes all the Yankee lands, te
ne ments and hereditaments, goods, chat
rights and credits within these Confedel
!" States, and every righ%4and interest the
7o in held, owned, possessed or enjoyed
IRE said States, by Lincoln's YANKEE subject
NJ vast fund, out of which the losses of
people, by Yankee vandalism, are to
u paid. 1t puts the whole machinery Of
. Confederate Courts into immediate opera
The for H. soo,oe++;o, &C Tho ono,,s mo,
loi tue oequeSIldIioh u 1he elioliy Plol
ty.
= 1t sweeps the South Of all and e
my species of Yankee property, places it in
hands of receivers, where it is to be hell
the reimbursement of the losses of our
us zens. The sequestration act extends te
en- dohts owod NV o,r neon,o To North ern
chants, and excerpts only State and Co
ate stocks, and makes it the duty of e
a. good citizen to hunt up and report va
property to the proper officials.
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