Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1863-07-01
For tho Advertiser.
no the mor of Edgefe:d.

President DAVIS Inn called for $4,000 moro
trsopS. Tho quota of South C,rnli.- & ana
rhaS Of LLgshsla neatly sou. Srtsse must se
raised not hy cupscrip.ion, but by tho good old
| plan @! volunteering or drafting. Which shall it
be, Sons Of tho brasv and proud fighting District
Of South Carolina" -he past history of Edge
! Geld, and the rlui ious oIe hcf gallant sons Arc
writing Tor her Oh every battlefield oil this sisau-
lie wnr, forbid That she Should now suffer tLc Odi-
ym u. q draft and thereby forfeit her high title
, aud s~,icieut ronown as tle mother Of heroic meil.
The CoAscript iau isa failure. 1t has worked
| Mdcn evil and ths only good ir hiss ever Eccom-
plshed WIS to retain in suvico for tte moment
tho trained twelve months volunteers. Our Au.
! ~tlicri:iea Indirectly acknowledge this, since tho
las. amendment 10 the Censcript Inv rirtuIliy
abolishes Tia principle OF Conscription. Ali nen
! under Is, yosrs of aye in the Confederate Ststes
arc Row practically liablc 20 hs ordered into tho
Army. Executive discretion, or caprice 10 tho
| only real law Of exemption q: this time, but as
! some laust rOnsln 1t hoN,e, and "a no Executive
would dhro assume 70 exercise such o fearful re-
| sponsibilily Is TO Say who must 20 and who re-
main, tho old law and tho old way Of rai'ing troops
by volunteering In the frs; instance, 6r by drafting
in the second, lis restored, and G!fty Mossand eO'ns-
tecri, not Consedp!o, are wanted.
Hsncs no can once moro 90 forth 10 battle 40
eur fathers mes1t and breath free for the privilege.
Tho Tyranny sitter the French style, inaugurat.l
by our Infamous Council" OF arbitrarily divi-
ding The community ints classes VI COnscripts and
p-o,x. Atvo..,ko .,d pl.ho;.p. ;.o,ock
if wisdom guides our actions. All thinking msn
have condemned 1t long ainco, mostly in siionce it
is true, for the sake Of union ut aoms; uni the
monbIrosity Is alluded to now only to exhort all
men to forget if possible the i~niquitieo p~erpstr,-
ned an1>ths h, Srt-burninsS engurdcrsi by tho
Franco Russian Imperial Abortion.
;Sinco the 10th spril 1852 no ono has felt that
hs had any agency OF Ills own free will, either In
entering tina army as u Consoript, or In remaining
at home as IN Exempt Tho Government has
undertaken to manage tho whole matter Of raising
armies r .iteelL, and, has counted nothing on tho
patriotism or public spirit Of its citizens. But
now, private conscience, 80 to speak, ia allowed
full scope, and henceforth you yourselves, not the
Government, will be holii responsible for Jour
absence from, tho army.
True, moit Of You who arc under 10 year. of
age muy yet clnim an ossp iption by taking shell
ter behinl the letter OF On unwiso law, which
could never have been ensbtrd except for a blum
der il Legislation, and which, + venture to assert,
will sevcr DO enforced again il tho young mon of
tho country will now do their duty by voluntcc,-
ing. aay, although most Of you can clam IN
exemption, will you do it, Will you close your
ears to tho walls Of your bleeding country, when
In inc extremity OF her anguish, .bo calls aloud
foF-help spLto conscrlpts, no. to exoap,e-but to
every son of hcra who has y heart u teel and a
hand 10 strike for her woos 2.
Will you, can you ESQ lvst to ,lsmo as to
stand by urInored and roe mon on the sunset
side Of lifo volunteer. 10 avoid being drlfted7 (for
by bud Legislation which hns been Tue curse of
tho country during this wary In cGso tho required
.unbOr Of volunteers do not sep forward from
among the young cxOmpts, tho Qnota Of troopa
nust t;Hl be rais0l by d%raiting among the old
lien between tao ngea Of 40 md SO yearsr If
-on can, without a qn!ckening pull t, behold such
altctablo as grand sircs Yoluntee riug TO prevent
be disgrace OF tho draM and 10. oidey to allow
ra the koasr q rlulming On Q compton, r4oa !