Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1863-03-03
The Conservation BI,V.


The House ofsRepresentatives passed the
transcription bin, on last Thursday. in an
amended form The bill passed by strict z
party vote, theradical Abohrionists voting
fof it, and The true ,fiendsofthe cotstitu-
tioh and Union against it.
Tha bill was Immediately returned 70 the
Senate for concurrence, and it has doubtless
passed thdt b5dy before this time, and is
now the law ofthe land. We shall publish
i. at the earliest opportunity.
We have not space or time now for re-
view Of the Bill Eus will will refer briefly to a
fewof ita provisions. D.
In the, first. place, it takes the whole
7 militia Of the country from the control of
the States and llaces it entirely in the
hand. Of the President, giving him the
power to draft, enrol, organize and order
them ThcreVer he pleGsee.
| ItnuTli6es'aH State authority upon the
subject, and randers every able bodied man
between the ages of eighteen and forty-fve
liable to be forced into the army at the
VIII ofthc President.
1t makes eve:y man, when thus drafted
liable to tho militia law Of the United States
and subject to its severe runishments, if be
does net obey the despotic eGict which de
mands his services; and it imposes severe
penalties upon ali who may advise against
object Obedience toits authority.
1t permits the rich man, By paying three
hundred dollars to the Government, to be
exemnt from the draft, and thus to escape
the sufcrings and appalling dangers which
will surround the soldiers in carrying On
the war in the future, while the poor man
is to be dragged into the army. willing OF
unwilling, by reason of his inability to pay
the required amount thus introducing
French despotiam in our midst
And, like the coufscation scheme and
ike the emancipation edict, it is in viola
ton to the plain provisions of the constitu-
: ton. -..fr.. .-.... ....
For these and numerous other objections
o we might name We can view the conscrip-
tion bill in no very favorable light,
However, we do not encourage open re-
: sistencc toithe measure. As much as we
I detest the policy upon which the war is
. wAged at present, and as firmly as we are
set against the conversion of this country
. into military despotism, nevertheless, VS.
. would not advise rash measures on the par
n ofOuF friends for the present. There il
r yet hope that the President may break
!, loose from lis Abolition advisers and save
q the-couhlry from anarchy and ruin
4 Therefore, let every good citizen abide his
:. time. and submit to all reasonable dutie:
= required of.him. ga;
IS But if the President shall attempt ii
=, enforce sweeping transcription under thi:
A. lew, under tho present state of the publ,
20 mind, we fear chat consequences Of terri
. be character viii follow. The people Of
:. the great Northwest particularly, will new
i er eohsentto be forced into the war, il it j:
,e to be carried or solely for the purpose oi
d negro emancipation. They will submit tt
> every exaction aud sacrifice to restore tbs
Union and the supremacy of the laws, bu
they will protest against being dragget
from their families and homes for the nafa,
!, rieus purpose which the reckless men whc
. control the Administration desire to accom-
e p)isb-she freedom Of the negroes.
The provision Of the bill which permits
=. the man of means to go free by paying
20 three hundred dollsrs, looks to US very
\ much like an Abolition scheme to extermi
# nate laboring white men in order that tbei
Sc places may be filed by the negroes. TIL,
IN poor man must respond 70 the draft-mus
\, be drag ged INTO the dangers of aiekly eli.
male: and amongst terribly exasperatsc
, foes while his irriStoeratc Abolition neigh
bar ihas an easy way of RELIEF
: TIE failures in such loyal states as Mas
. sachusetts, Wisconsin and Michigan to en-
:, enfarce the light draft of last fall is evi
dence of what the President may expect i
to he attempts to fill mp the army by cOnscrir
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