The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-11-02
5. c. MERCER, EDITOR.

bONDAl MOhNtNHs WV y lcDE
Georgia Rebels against the Con-
script Lawl-- The plot against
the Non-slaveholder clearly Ex-
posed.
I Some weeks since, we published long
ezlracts from letter Of Governor BRowN,
OF Georgia, TO JEFF DAVIS, repudiasing,
/ protesting against and multiplying the
Confederate Conscript Law. Suisse
quently the odious Exemption Law was
passed in favor Of al persons owning
twenty slaves, and upwards. The Supe-
riOr Court Of Ebert county, in the State
of Georgia, recently had q case of con-
scription brought before Il on writ Of
ko5eas corpus, the plaintiff being one
jams NJ LEvEEeooD. The following
point, among others, was presented:
"The Conscript Act is unconditional;
and therefore the act itself and all
regulations and orders based upon it, are
likewise void"
ain the preamble of our Confederate
Constitution, care is taken TO assert and
maintain that the States are sovereign
and independent. In what sense can
this be said of Georgia, if every man Of
her militia can be taken from under the
control of her constitutional Commander
in-chief without his consents Must he
abdicate his most important duties by
permitting himself TO be disarmed Of his
forces, and all this too in violation of his
oath of Office, in case he should think
them necessary for the protection Of the
State?
IF Congress can pass cOnsoript act
with certain exemptions, they can pass
it without exemptions. No one will
deny this. IT. therefore, they have
the power to prescribe what shall
1.-THE copy here is mutilated so that
few words cannot be deciphered, but it
is easy to gather the meaning, substan-
TALLY, from the context; and the hiatus
may be supplied somewhat thus: '1f Con-
gress have the power to prescribe what
shall be the disposition Of The MALTA of a
State they may take, &c."l
may take the Governor, General Assem-.
bly,, and the whole Judiciary, and hus
arail,ilate The State Government,
"The palpable infractiOn of the Con-
federate compact is ometimes-indeed,
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS on the plea of ne
oessity. What dangerous fallacyl We
have expended one hundred thousand
lives, and untold millions of money TO
maintain the Constitution and the indie
pendeuoe of the States, and shall we now
violate il, and destroyH State Government?
AS reasonably might we commit suicide
10 avoid personal danger.
nNor is his plea Of necessity true an 6act.
The conscript law can only furRish men,
We have, and had before, State laws TO
reach every man in the State between
eighteen and forty-tive, and 10 sag he con-
script lac ioas necessary t0pyoclye men, is 10
maintain the arithmetical absurdity that
there is more men in the country between
eighteen and thirty-6ve than between
eighteen and fOrty-five.
"WhereupOn, and for these reasons, il 4
is ordered and adjudged by the court I
that the of the Confederate Congress- ,
known as the Conscript Law, and emit
tied AN act TO further provide for the q
public Defence is void; and the plaintiff, [
j James M, LevengoOd be released and dis
charged from the custody and control of
Sidney ?. Bruce, and from the custody
and control of the Sheriff of this Court, I
and be set atliberty TO 60 wherever he s
pleases"
Let us bear in mind that the ostensi- G
BILE purpose Of the rebellion was to main q
tain State Sovereignty, and here we have q
a Superior Court Of the most prosperous I
and powerful of all the rebel States, and 4
the Governor Of the State himself, de- a
claring that the most important, and q
universal, and comprehensive Of all the d
laws which the Confederate Government a
has yet passed, threatens the annihila- r
lion of the Executive and Judiciary of n
every Southern State, and the destruc-
tion Of every State Government The
cotton States pretend 10 rebel against
= Federal Government and before they n
have been in the contest for State inde- (
pendenoe two years, they adopt a law S
which establishes a military consolidated \
Government, under the control Of an alb a
sOlute and unrestrained dictator. This a
destroys all personal lib 3
orty--except that Of the large slave-own- a
,r-and under il men are dragged from i
heir families into the army, or shot down n
or refusing to obey their military master, 4
But the most revolving and tyrannical b