Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-02-13
William Castor on Consumption.

We make the following extract from speech of
William CASTOR, of MOI th-Carolna, delivered in the
House of Representatives of the United States Feb
ruarv, 1914. The speech may be found in volume
9Th, Bentons Arrangement of the Debates of Con-
gresS, page 24l:
Patriotism was relied on to fill the ranks of the invading
army; but II did sufficiently the call These
ranks however be lcd reSorted to
the price bid for soldiers was ever
offered id any age country. Should this fail what is
the next scheme There IS couCeameut. Ii
las been avuwed that the scheme cunScrptun-
1t is known that thus SIhrme recommended even
this By the War Department, and that it was
postponed only Try first the effect of buunv
The eemen OF this country To be drauhtcd from the
ranks OF the militia aud Lrced abroad as military n,arhin"s
to wdge war Of conquest! SIR, have been accustomed
TO consider the little share which have in the C"nStiiu
ton uf these United States the valuable parmuny
have TO leave those beings in whom hope
and remembrance 10 be perpeIuaied. But SUemnlr de-
Glaze, that II such dcnnc be ngraird into this CnnSti
tuition shall regard it without value and for
its preservation. Even in France, where man. Injured
desPotS has become passive and subServenI uSt
to lose the faculty of feeling oppression, and the capacity
To perceive IT, there the tyranny at cunScrpnn
him the asSerIiL IN of his freedom To sruy
gle against slavery in its mast malignant form No,
not the dread of all the punsmeHIS ordained for
refractory conscr'ps not the " ttre Ra tO the "h0-
rdur PHbtYT.S, nor death itself, stupey him into
seeming submission. He yields only to absolute force and
is marched the field of glory manacled and handcue
And such principle 10 be introduced into benign,
our free In>tituunS Believe the attempt will be
ta-it Cannot succeed but by military ter"r-it will he
the signal fbr diawIn the sword AT home Americans
hted to be the slaves French cOnScrpion the
detesabie OF the inventions OF tyranny. Sr hear wins
pered hear this is not than the mpreSsent of
scimcn II infinitely lmpreSSment forces
scamen To in the pubic ships Of their country instead
OF pursuing their occupation in the merchant service. II
changes their employment to more rigorous f longer
connuince of greater danger. But it yet employment
Of the same knd-t Yet employ for which they
h'Ied by usage and education But CONSUMPTION is Indis
crmnate the victims of its tyranny The age, not the
pursuit. of the cOnscrp is the sole criterion of his fitness
Whatever be his habits. whatever his immediate views
Whatever his designed occupation in f maudIte
tears HIM from the roof Of his father from the desk the
Office Inc plough the workshop, AID lie is carried far
from home TO i IN foreign cmcS tle battles of amb
tim. But sir, If cunScr,pIOn We're not worse than ip
prcSSmcnt should not lose my objection To i'll fUt
prepared to To the introduction of either cunScrp
ton mLrCSsment in;o my country For all the British
territories i'll the Western world, would not Fight
sailors rights yet rivet citizens French cpnScup
tom Fight for rights the ocean, and annihiLle the
must precious of all rights at hmethc right of free
nan never to be forced out OF his country! How
alarming The naiuatun of that zeal which in lis ardUr
Tor attaining its object tTampes the dust obi let's of
huIiely higher price,"