Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1864-01-06
Mr.. Gather on Exemptions,

In tho 59...ss u6 Representatives, the 3Oth De-
cember, Mr. Gather offered the following resolu
tons:
Resoloed, That the Committee on Military Affairs
be instructed to enquire into the expediency of pro
vding by law that all persons connected with thu
=. roads and express companies, assistant quarter
4asters and commissaries agents and employees Of
v.ry description, justices Of the peace, and militia
rcers within the ages Of CONSUMPTION, be immedi.
ely enrolled in the army; and that said Commit
Q enquire into the propriety of declaring that it
Il, not be lawful to detail from the military service
.ay person to work in any wooden cotton factory,
wye, furnace, foundry, or for any other company
individual enterprise hatever, except the army
n the field,
Mr.. Gather addressed the House warmly on the
subject saying that the number of exemptions and
,eais was disgrace to the various States. In his
oEl State there were nineteen hundred details for
mich slave labor might be as we'll employed. The
s.olution was passed.
The Richmond Examiner makes the following re-
--rks in relation to Mr.. Gathers proposition:
How TO END THE WAR IN THIRTY DAYs.-From
\, character Of some of the propositions now made
y Congress- one is at loss to decide whether mad
IS has, indeed, seized upon their proposers, or
ssether despsring of the success of cause they
are seeking the speedy termination of the war by the
induction of measures which will ensure the tri.
rGlph of the enemy by rendering US incapable Of
flrther defence One of these resolutions, if car
1out would answer the end of bringing the war
d close in thirty days, by ensuring the disband.
-aent or starvation of our armies contamination,
We presume, not aimed at by its projector.-We
hide to the resolution of the Hon. Mr.. Gather, of
Aorth Carolina, which we copy from the report of
6e proceedings of the House Of Representatives on
y adnesday last
The immediate effect of the passage of law with
nese provisions would be to stop every railroad in
4: Confederate States and our armies would net
ely be obliged to fall back from their present po-
Ions, but, in fact to dsaand Nothing but dis
;rsion over the country would save them from
walton. Without the railroads. worked to their
lost capacity, there are no points at which the
fny could be fed It were useless for them to
ali back upon the cities, the people of which would
)ohged to scatter over the country to obtain the
esssaries Of life. Stop the railroads for ten DAYS
the war Is over; General Lee abandons the
id ann; General Johnston flies from Rinppold
md Charleston is deserted
That cOnscribing the EMPLOYEES vii, ;umed.to,v
top the railroads is dead certainty. Tho ro;lroaa
Jrpanes are now working their roads under Greet
dvantases, arising from want of skilled ,ahor.
and if government still further reduces that l,bor
must take possession of the roads. This change
sands would operate an instant stoppage: and
'"ith OF time, sufficient to be fatal to our cause
"a ls !, manner we have indicated, must elapse be-
VIZ saey could be got into running order again. 1t
.ae,So 'a'snhg that members of Congress cannot
a1 CO as everybody else of common sense does
TO- are as essential to our successful pros
'"e war as cannon or gunpowder itself"