Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1863-08-26
Legislature of Alabama.


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Legislature of Alabama.
ATLANTA, August 19th.-The Legisla-
ture of Alabama met to day IL Extra Ses-
sion.
|. The Governors Message was presented
and read. :
The following is synopsis: For obvious
reasons this communication is confined to
the subject of military defence. On &C.
count of the new and superior numbers Of
the enemy on every theatre. of the war, the
President wisely called on the States for
their relative proportion of the reserves.
The military requisitiou on Alabama is
1000 men for six mouths service but be-
fore the draft came the Presidents Proc:
lamation, calling out all under 45-which
class alone compose the militia of the State.
The Governor reviews the question, and
classes the exempts under State aud Con.
federate enactwents, and the substitutes in
the army. He has no means of ascertain
ing the number of those classes in the State,
but it is supposed there are several thous-
and. The Militia organization pertaining
to the State Legislature, it can determine
who it shall exempt. All not exempt by
enactment are liable to militia duty, includ-
ing those having substitutes in Confederate
service.
Additional Legislation is necessary to give
efficiency to the military code of the State
The Governor recommends that the amen.
ded law embrace all between the ages of
l6 and 60, including persons who have
purchased substitutes, persons of foreign
birth domici!ing within the State, and all
who have evaded the Just requirements Of
the Confederate Government.
He also recommends plan for the i'm
provement of the militia, and extending the
military power of the Governor If every
man id the State were embodied 10 military
organizations the State would present in.
superable barriers to incursions by the enc.
my. Straggers and deserters are condem-
ned. He recommends that the officers of
the State be charged with the duty of ar
resting them, and that the judicial officers
rigidly enforce the penal laws against alb,
bettors. He pays tribute to the memory
Of Senator Yaucey, and expresses regret
that his eyes could not behold the success
and grandeur of the new Confederacy.
Alabama has and will cheerfully respond
to every demand made upon her so long as
our unnatural foe perseveres 10 bis unholy
crusade. We may be invaded. The peo.
pie will not give way to alarm but will
nerve themselves for .uudying resistance to
despotism which has decreed the emau.
cipation of our slaves, the confscation of
our lands and the subjugatioa of free
people. God in his providence will not
permit such calamity.
The Senate passed the following preamble
and resolutions:
Whereas, it is the opinion of this Gene.
raj Assembly that the people and the army
have lost confidence in Gems. Holmes and
Pemberton: without questioning the inte-
gritty, patriotism or loyalty of either of said
Generals,
Pesolved, That the interest Of the SER
vice and tie good of the cause we so dear.
ly love imperatively demand change in
the commands of those respective Gene.
rails ~
Resozved, That the people of.Alabama
hereby pledge the entire resources Of the
State, to the last dollar and to the last man,
to successful prosecution of the var COW be,
ing waged by the North for the subjugation
of the Coufederacy, and We will never yield
the contest until We have achieved the ac-
acknowledgement of our independence as
separate people. e..
RESOLVED, That the Governor transmit q
copy of these resolutions to the President
of the Confederate States and to each of our
Senators and Representatives in the Con-
federate Congress.
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