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terest in the government-such course, they claim,
is very strong proof that monarchy is the thing

terest in the government-such course they claim,
is very strong proof that monarchy is the thing
aimed at.
5. The recklessness with which the government,
through its various agents. conducts trade outside of
the seizures it Understanding, as it does, to place
every necessary out OF the reach of the DOOR, looks
they argue, to the same erd
g. The light estimate which the government,
through its agents places upon human life-the life
of the soldier which is so little regarded as to
pei him to stay in camp and die or be forced into
filthy hospitals-and the citizens, especially the
poor, who are unable, owing to the his Oh prices oc
casioned by the manner in which government agents
conduct trade, to purchase the necessares of life
All this, they say, smells of monarchy.
7. The Exemption Law, which provides that if a
man has wenty slare he need not enter the service
Of his country, but stay at home and make more
money than he ever made before while his poor
neghbor, whose family is dependent upon his own
exertions for their daily bread must be forced into
service, which tends to make this the poor mans
soar This they persist, points to slausoeraey, or
aristocracy. -,.-.--..
8. The small wages which the government pays
pripates as compared with the high pay of e1icer'
and especially with the high prices that the govern
ment has aided in placing upon all the necessary ar
tcles of life thus making it to the advantage OF the
tew that the should be continued, while its con-
tinuance tends only to oppress the many Ihls, they
say, points in the same direction.
9. The virtual breaking up of all State military
organizati0ns legitimate result from the ConScrlpt
Act, tenos, they urge, to establish one central 60
vernment superior to that of the States, thus giving
no power to the States that compose the Confeder-
acy.
Taking all these things into account, it IS claimed
that the government exhibiting itself only in its M
ltary garb, elevatng the military above the clpi-
lan, and constantly enlargng the rights of the for
mer at the expense of the latter, is drifting rapidly
toward despotsm
Such are the considerations which some secretly
urge in proof of the above; to all which is enough
reply: Our leaders are not fools. But fools they
are if they dream of converting the Confederate 60
vernment into monarchy or an aristocracy. They
know that there is not soldier in the Confederate
service that would not take great pleasure in decap
itating any man, or set of men, who would declare
for monarchy. They know the presentrace would
have to be exterminated before the present form
will be exchanged for any other; and would the
verSal wreck? They know that if every officer,
military and civil, in the Southern Confederacy,
should labor to change the present form of govern
ment IN any vital particular the prrafes in the army
would vie with another in their irdiscrminate
slaughter of all such. Such plan would be resort
ed to only by fools, and such do not understand
the majority of our rulers to be
If the government has committed many grievous
blunders, let attribute them rather to the head
than to the heart. Watching every movement of
our enemies and using every effort to thwart them
in their diaholical plans, let unite all our energies
to achieve our independence and. meantime, should
the monarch raise his head he will never be able to
place the gl;ttering dadem thereon, for ten thous-
and daggers would pierce him dead as soon as he is
seen.