Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1864-10-05

Nv. AL 6p0lc4ClOnS IOf exemption anu uetal
will be transmitted through the Generals of Re-
serves to the Superintendent of the Bureau Of Con.
,cription for decision. The Office of Congressional
District enrolling officer is abolished and commu-
acations from local enrolling officers will be trans.
nitted through the conmandants of conscripts to
The Generals of Reserves. An officer may be as
signed to duty in each Congressional District BY
the Generals Of Reserves as inspector of cOnscrip-
hon.
BY order: :,
Adjutant and Inspector General.
We presume that the number of efficient soldiers
connected with the business Of enrolling is not very
arge. Those from the provost guards. bridge
guards, comm,ssary and quartermaster's office
would swell the numbers considerably, whose
places can well be supplied by the reserves or
others.
But what shall be done with the militia officers
and magistrates under 45 years of age! We in.
cline to the opinion that every man in the State
capable of bearing arms should be enrolled and
drilled and made ready for any service which the
cause demands. So long as there is no real neces.
sity for such in the active duties of the field, let
them remain to till the land or work in the shops,
or attend to the business Of the State and of the
country. The crisis is 3 serious one. Every one
must do his duty to the country. We do not de-
ST cir by any means of the Republic Many must
be aroused by fear or otherwise, before they will
come up to the help Of the country as they should
do. Let all rally to the standard Of the Confedera
cy in this hour Of peril and the country is ssfe.-
Conserustius.
We copy the above from Gov Vance's newspaper
of the 9th instant The Governors newspaper Of
the 26th-the day before-not having obtained the
cue, entered into an argument to show that magis-
rates and militia officers ought not to be conscript-
ed; but we felt when we read the article, that the
writer had "gone off at q tangent" and had not
correctly stated the determination in this respect Of
the Governor. No~, it appears that '"every man
in tho Stste, magistrates and militia officers in
cuded, "should bs enrolled >apd drilled, and made
ready for any service which the cause demands"
To show tho change of tone which took place in tie
short space Of forty eight hours We copy as follows
from its issue of the 26th instant:
"The Legislature is desired to be convened, by
some persons, in extra session. Some Of our cotem.
poraries desire Gov. Vance to call it at once. They
think the condition of public affairs demands it. We
may be too obtuse to discover this necessity. Our
army needs reinforcing. Every one admits this,
but does it need raw recruits, who will 60 in under
whip and spur-will such class of soldiers be Of
avail at this juncture? We think not
Why call the Legislature now in extra session
Scarcely sixty days will elapse before the Legislature
meets in regular session. Between new and then
those Of them who are farmers will be greatly need
ed At home The object of the call is to make ar
rangements to reinforce the army. The only thing
the Legislature can do, will be to force militia Off.
GERS and magistrates into the field, to reduce the
number of exempts in the Stats service, and call
out the boys from 16 to II, and the men from 80
to 65. Does any one suppose that the Legislature
is ready to do either on snap Judgment Wehave
defence to make for militia officers magistrates
as class, otherwise than that they or portion Of
them are necessary tn the maintenance Of the State
government and the enforcement Of the civil law,
and that most of them arc producers Of bread and
meat. Some of them ought to have been in the
war from the frst but many of them are more
needed at home.
1t is very grave question: to be decided after the
most cool deliberation. whether any more men in
this State can be taken from the fields and the work
shops, and from the necessary business of the gov
ernment and the people, while there is large army
10 feed and clothe; SO many soldiers wives widows
and orphaned children to support as well as SO
many others not connected with the war. We beg
every to look these matters full in the face
It ID high time to bs cool aud reflective.
+ Tho Legislature will not act so unwisely, as to
destroy the efficiency of the State government, de.
feat the ends and aims of the civil law and disre-
gard the claims Of the army and people, who must
be fed and clothed. No one need expect that
Beyond these we would have no exemptions At.
tempts may be made to raise = clamor in the army
against the Legislature for not doing what few Of
our snthusiastic people and army officers want done
in this matter but the second sober thought Of our
soldiers and officers will applaud its course. We
have not yet arrived at t;'st point, when we are
ready to abandon our farms and workshops and
business, and flee to the mountains and swamps, to
live on roots and berries Mexican fashion, to har-
rass the enemy by guerrilla bands We have yet
strong, brave to be recruited but to be fed
and clothed and the people 1t home must take care
of them"
The Gon.ersatis. Of the 9th contains call b.
the Governor to his Council to assemble in this
City on Wednesday next most probably with the
view Of coLvening the Legislature at the earlies,
practicable moment; but the Conservative of the
26th is "too obtuse" to discover the necessity oi
an earlier session than that provided by law. Tho
Conssrratius of the 26th thinks that 1.-THE Legisa-
ture will not act unwisely as 10 destroy the ef
ticiency Of r. State governments, and defeat the
ends and aims of the civil law" by putting the
magistrates and militia officers in the army bat the
Conssroatioe Of the 9th, speaking with express
reference 70 those classes, says that every in
the State should be enrolled and drilled, and made
ready for any service which the cause demands "
On the 26th the Conserpatirs is "cool and reflec-
tive" and thinks very seriously, as it should Of the
neglected farms and pinchiag want which mast
result from putting in the magistrates and militia
officers but on the 9Th. the Gonseroatire losine
sight of these things, declares that aI must rally
70 the standard Of the Contederacy in this hour oi
peril"
The order Of the AdIutant General, copied by the