Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1863-03-11
! Tke Conscripsion IN sIissssslppi.

Pisna me tonfederate government, but ready &C
quiescence by the latter the wishes of the former
We have before us the A;sssis.ip;aa 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 rendeavoring to per-
form his duty. But the Aississippian says: ~
1--WE are informed by gentlemen who ought to know,
that the militia organization of the State il having the ef
feet OF preventing the enrolment Of conscrpts Ipsead
az dnchsrRng those already the service of the State
who were liable to be eonscribed the militia authorities
have ozed the enromento conscrpts between the
ages Of ls and 49, and large number of :hem have already
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 conscribed but
tho militid ausheritiss Of that State are actually
enrolling and drafting large numbers Of eonseripts
for State service. What is this but deliberate and
palpable evasion Of the cohscript lawi 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 as
it was intended that the ten regiments of North Car
ona State troops should do, if raised and the same
remarks would apply, if it were the purpose Of the
Governor of Mississippi to dsband his State troops
at an early period but the fact that the nsilitis
authorities are protecting the coDscripts, and de-
priving the common government of their services
in other States, discusses condition of things in
that State which may well excite surprise and in
dignation. North-Garolina, whose people and whose
troops have done ten times as mach for the COM
mon cause as the people and troops Of Mississippi
Is raked as with fine tooth comb Tor conscripts;
but Mississippi, following the bad habit which she
contracted some years since Of not paying her Debts
regulates the conscr,pt law and leaves the other
States, Carolina included, to make good her
delinquency amid the su6erings Of the camp and the
fire of battle If Mississippi has "no stomach for
this fight" let her say So We know her politicians
were anxious for secession and they have reaped the
first civil honors of the new government; but when
law which. those very politicians conceived and
advocated as essential to the salvation of the country
comes to be executed, we find . show Of enforcing
it in that State, while the nsilitia authorities" are
industrously engaged in preventing the enrolment
and claiming the eonscripts 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
viest abuse Of North Carolina, they will charge
three fourths Of her citizens with being Lnconites
and traitors. and urge the most rigid enforcement
Of the conscript law among her people; but never
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 Mssis.
sippi. Postmasters, mail contractors, small farm.
ers, tanners, shoe-makers, millers, miil-wrights
one.eyed men, ruptnred men, and poor pale faced
boys hardly able to WELD musket will be hurried
into camp and hurried out of North aroliRa, TO
meet the foe at distant points but suca men, and
many others, as We learn from the Miaasippian
ITSELF are not enrolled in that Stats but are protec
ted by the "mitia authorities" p.
The House Of Representatives at Richmond has