The southern aegis, and Harford County intelligencer. (Bel Air, Md.) 1862-1864, 1863-04-10


Lis able to issue proclamation, by which
T he con6scates, by military necessity, the
whole property of the South, valued, it
is said, at four thousand millions, whatsis
the reason, if the war CONES to be carried
on in the North, and if be, carries it on no
better the present yearothan he did the
last. it will surely be carried on here,
what is the reason he cannot coa6scate
your property ? 1t is plain that the same
rule that applies to. one applies to the
other. Then, there is the CONSUMPTION
bill. By itsithe country is portioned
among the;yProvost Marshals. It is cut
up into number of little dominions for
the Provost Marshals. How far that is
consonant, under any circumstances, with
liberty, I leave you to determine, and OBJ
serve how the thing works. Remember
we are living under Republican form of
government, we sometimes call ourselves
a Democracy, at least we have a Demo-
cratic party. By this law any man who
can pay $500 is released from military
service, and any man who cannot pay
$500 must march. What is the, effect of
that ? You and l, to whom $500 may be
comparatively inconsiderable sum. will
not serve. We will remain with our fami-
lies, who could live without US; while
the poor man, in whose absence his. family
must starve, must march. [Voice-"Not
bit of it."] This Conservation bill is
compared with the French. I tell you,
in the time of the First Napoleon no such
anti-democratic rule as that prevailed
1t was reserved for us to discover sys.
tenn by which poor man, who is needed
by his family, should be taken, while the
man who could be spared by his family
can remain at home. / have seen it IN
the newspapers that, the Democratic party
proposed, in 1872, to pass CONSUMPTION
bill. That they said the Constitution gives
you the power to raise and support armies,
and therefore you may get an army by
CONSUMPTION. But Mr.. Webster pointed
to the Constitution, and said eyes, and
by another clause you. have the power to
borrow money, but does that mean a torcefl
loan Z And by another clause you have
the power to provide and maintain a navy,
but docs that mean the British impress
ment system?' Mr.. Troup, who was at
that time Chairman of the Military Com
mittee of the House, who was in favor OF
the bill, but never, brought It forward, said
Oh the floor that he had felt the pulse Of
the two Houses, and he had found that a
Conscription bill would not go through.
At that time, rememb per, for it was in
1914, these men were sitting in Washing
ton amid the burning embers of the CAPT
toll But it is not emancipation or con.
scription alone that must make us look for
our State rights. OF all the acts Of Mr..
Lincoln's Administration, / have always
4 regarded that as the most outrageous
much worse than emancipation, which is
only paper and does not as yet, come to
much /; that by which after he had appeal.
ed to the ballot-box and was beaten at ev.
Terry poll through the North, he went to
work and sending to North Carolina and
lother portions Of the country where our
tr ops were, and had mock elections held
and sent to Washington what are well
called "bogus" members of Congress. Did
evera government pretending to govern a
free country resort 10 an audacity such as
this. There is again the attempt to ele
vate the negro to level with the white
race. The Government intends to raise
these people to an equality with us, and
that can have no other effect than to inau.
! gnrate war Of races, and make more'mil
4 itary necessity! I say We are losing oul
rightso property and person, and through
the various measures of this Admins
tration the chains Of tho North are
forging. You ask me what could State
Rights do for us?s Suppose, we had
this, State Of Pennsylyania, had Dem.
oerat for Governor, and Democratic ma
,Iiorities in the two Houses do tyos
\ suppose We would permit the arrest ofFthe
editor of the Joundt a-the seizure of bis
newspaper II be codld do nothing else
Ii suppose the Governor would seize as q
4 hostage the Collector Of the Ports orsths
Postmaster, or the great Provost Marshal
himself, and hold him until the citizen
and his property were released. Cheers. !
I don't mean to say thatawould thus b
,Icsrryiug out the Constitution of the Uni
tied States, but I, do say that liza mere out
rage is perpetrsted, and Chief Justice
/ Lowrie, had Just, decided that the Presi-
ldent had no more right to seize the DETER
lsoaian than you Of. I, / scs no otherrem