The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1863, 1863-02-12

The Legislature has adopted no law
for the improvement of the militia or.
ganizaion Of the State. Th4 impaired
condition of that system leaves 90 means
Of making the remaining military strength
of the State available for its protection
and defense except by the formation of
volunteer companies"
Those companies, the Governor says,
will be needed to med and queH the
domestic and social disturbances Which may
spring up."
This is a mild form OF stating that the
Ahbamians Of AFRICAN descent" are not
exactly as practicable as might be desira.
hle. llo docs not uss the ugly words
save insure ectionS," but that is what
he means, and he will be understood in
slave communities. He appeals again
to the old men and youths 10 organize,
and assures them that the war will soon
be over. The following statement Of facts
made in his appeal. is sisudcant:
"a considerable numbsr Of persons in
every part of the State, both officers and
privates who belong 10 the army and are
Ct for duty. are lingering at home on va.
rious pretexis, while their more manly
and patriotic comrades, with ranks thin.
ned and weakened by their absence, bear
the shock of an u1cqual contest. SO,
too large number OF persons subject
to ccnscrption are shrinking from tolls
and porls which those Of ike age are
brayely enduring. and hiding from the
enrolling offic,r."
He appeals to public opinion to drag
out the deserters. and adds that "Me eviI
is great and ruinouS 10 tie country s
cause
In Georgia there is bitter hostility to
tho conscIiption act, and the States
Rights men denouuce it as uncons.itu-
tionsl. The Honorable Linton S ephens,
a brother Of Alexander II. Stephens, a
mombcr of the Legislature of Georgia
recently made speech, in which he said
"Ths essence OF couscription is the
right to take away the fighting men OF
the Sta'es against the will of both the
citizens and the States 1t is tie right
make what you will Of it, 10 coeice sove.
reign States. declare conscrplion, as
it presents itself to my mind. ia, in its
essence and constitution. the very embod
imsnt Of Lincolnism. | tell the people
Of Georgia that c'Dscriplion has been
put upon them, and this great wrong has
been done 10 the rights of her citizens
} and to her sovereignty, from no necessity
from no conviction Of necessity, but from
premedilalion aud deliberaIion' 1t has
been a matter Of choice with our Govern
mont. and they intend to adhere to it ic
the end. unless you drive them from it >
The people Of North Carolina are di'
vidcd into parties called the "Conserva
tives' and the s'-ih,
former are the old Union party, aod tb,
latter the original sec, sh. The forme
wish so raise ten regiments Of troops 70
4 home service, and the movement il pro
nouuced by tho Destruclves as "a plo
y 10 break up tho unity Of the commo
Government, and prevent the executio
y. Of the last Conscriplion Act" The r
leigh Standard, The org,n of the Consel
= valves, says:
o "North Carolina acqassced in the frs
Conscriplion Bill as a neccssiiy--a de'
mer resort 10 inset a pressing exigency
= which the for sight Of the GoverDmer
# had failed to provide against. But Mort
9 Carolina has never acquissoed in tn
principle Of CONSUMPTION, and never viii
She regards it as unconstitutional. de,
porc and dangerous to liberty"
The North Carolina Legislature bs
} taken action on resolutions against til
power Of jeff Davis to suspend the wr
II Of haJcas corpus in that State. Thsteupo
u the R,Icigh State Journal, the secesh OF
- gan, says:
y awe do not charge the Lagislatur
with reasonable purposes Or proclviliel
n We give them credit for all the good ia
}. tentions they cain. But wo we d
# charge them with a purpose to quar-,
and conflict with the Co Moderate Govern
! menl; aud We tell lh-m they are insIigs
J. Ted to toy men who are traitors, but hay
m not the courage 10 avCw their treason"
=, The treatment of Union men, prisoner
y at Salisbury, North Carolina. has bee
le cruel. and the attention Of the Legislatu
l. haS been called to IT,
b, The Raleigh Stale Journal informs Ii
n conservative legislators that their sympl
Of thios ''ae misdireeted when applied
n the poor prisoners at Salisbury" an
y inquiries
p "Do they knoW tint out @Ms who
,s nambV confined there some two or tar,
weekS ago, only one man, oui of oJovt 31(
could be toUnd who wos wilting 10 take n
70 oaM Of allegiance to tie Government Of n
J Southern COnfederocyT THIS ~ a ia
T. which cannot be huthfally denied "
AT latest accounts JEFF DAVIS was
a North Carolina. trying to reconcile II
y disadec,ed by his personal address, an
:, Governor VANCE was entertaining hi
with lecture on "the rights Of sovereig
Siatesn An of which goes 10 show th,