Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-03-10
The conscrip,ion in aIi.sissippi.


special order No 27l, from the Adjutant and In
spector General of the State of Mississippi issued
by the direction of Gov. Pettus, from which we
make the following extract
- "MAJ. GENERAL T. c. TUPpER You will issue orders
to the several commanders Of companies battaons and
regiments retain their commands all men under forty
years Of age who have already been detailed volunteer
ed in the service of the State Special orders No. Is
sued from the headquarters of Lieutenant General Pember
ton, under instructions from the Secretary of War; COM
mands that all under forty years of age serving
in Mississippi State organizations will interfered
with by enrolling officers until the dsbauding Of said or
CARNATIONS"
Gov. Pettus, it seems, is retaining conscripts in
the State forces, by the permission of the Secretary
of Var. There is no conflict" between Mississip-
pi and the Confederate government, but ready ac-
quiescence by the latter in the wishes of the former
We have before us the Nississipian of the 22d of
February, published in Jackson from which We
learn that commandant of conscripts has been ap-
pointed for that State, and is eNieavoring to per-
form his duty. But the Aississippian says:
I'VE are informed by gentlemen who ought to know,
that the militia organization of the State is having the eff
feet OF preventing the enrolment of cOnScrpts Instead
of dschagng those already r the service of the State
who were liable to be conscribed the militia authorities
have autL OZed the enrolment of oOnscrps between the
of Is aud 40 and large nunber of ;hem have already
been drafted"
Here is a candid admission that the Secretary of
War has not only given orders that none of the
State troops of Mississippi shall be conscrbed but
the militia authorities Of that State IRE actually
enrolling and drafting large numbers Of cOnscripts
tor State serUice. What is this but deliberate and
palpable evasion of the conscript law2 The order
not to conscroe the State troops already in service
might have been regarded as judicious, if those
troops were acting in concert with the President n
1t was intended that the ten regiments of North Car
olina Stale troops should do if raised; and the
remarks would apply, if it were the purpose of the
Governor of Mississippi to disba1d his State troops
at early period; but the fact that the militia
authorities are protecting the coDscripts and de-
priVing the common government of their services
in other States, discloses a condition of things in
that State which may well excite surprise and in
dignation. North-Carolina, whose people and whose
troops have done ten times much for the COM
mon cause as the people and troops of Mississippi,
is raked as with fine tooth comb for conscripts;
but Mississippi following the bad habit which she
contracted some years of not paying her debts
repudiates the conscrlpt law and leaves the other
States, North-Caronia included, to make good her
delinquency amid the suEerings of the camp and the
fire Of battle. If Mississippi has mo stomach for
this eight" let her say We know her politicians
were anxious for secession and they have reaped the
first civil hOnors of the new governments; but when
law which those very politicians conceived and
advocated essential to the salvation the country
comes to be executed, we find show of enforcing
it in that State while the "miliG authorities are
industriously engaged in preventing the enrolment,
and claiming the conscripts for State service.
AS matter Of course, the Richmond Enquirer
and other Destructive journals will have nothing to
say on this subject They will pretend not to know
the facts. They will teen, as heretofore, with the
vilest abuse of. North Carolina they will charge
three ourths of her citizens with being Lincolnites
and traitors, and urge the most rigid enforcement
! of the conscript law among her people, but meyer
word will they say about this fragrant evasion of
the law by Mississippi. They have masters to serve
! who dislike North Carolina, and who love Missis-
sippi Postmasters, mail contractors small farm
! ers, tanners, shoe-makers millers; ml-wrights,
! one'eyed men, ruPtYrea men, and poor palefaced
boys hardly able to WELD lnusket will be hurried
! into camp and hurried out of North. Carolina, to
! meet the foe at distant points but such men, and
! many others, as we learn from the Hi.sissippian
ITSELF not enrolled in that State but are protec-
+ ted by the militia authorities"