Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-03-24
THERKBEL GOHsoRIpTfoTA AoT

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1hsAr s'sAr stringent and Sweeping Pre-.
PRrRItons for the ensuing SprinG
e and summeE CampaIRa. -tsl J
In copy otthr Rtchmund Ezominsr be.
fore as We iod Gvueral Otdsr No. 2s iron
the rebel War Department. entitled ian aei
70 organize forces to serve duripg the val. :
TIE 9PffptSg paragraph 81 l4tb sci, a,
follows:
The Congress otths Confederate State.
OF America do enact, That from aud after
Lhe passage OF this act ell white men, resi-.
dents OF the Confederate States between
tho ages of seventeen aud fifty, shall be in
tue military service Of tho Confederate
States for the war. = {
This is sweeping provision. tits easy
to'sss frorrai 1t how desperate iS the deter
minatiOu of the rebel Gov,rnment thG.
heirsrmies this spring shall contain every
available man that can be raksd and scrap.
ed within the bounds of the Confsdetocy.
Section Of the act is still more sweep
ing and is as follows:
Section 2. That ali tie persons Aforesaid
between the ages of eighteeu aud forty
hTe, now Ia service, shall be retained, dur.
ing the PreSentWar with the United States.
IN tho same regiments, battalionS and com
Panies to which they belong, at the passage
OF this acts With the same Organisation aud
omcers, nnlesS regularly transferred or.dis
charged 10 eceoEdanee " Rtth The avn. and
regulattops for the government of the
army: Provided, That companies from
ono state organiEediagainSt their. consent,
expressed At the time, With regiments or
sbattalions from auother s tate.5 shall have
tbs privilege % being irausfefrsd % organ :
nations of troops ID the same arm of the
service from the Stateg Id which the said
companies were raised a1d tsoIdisks from
one State in company from anpther State
shallbs allowed, II they desire IL; a trans :.
fer 20 Organizations nom their oWh State
In the samesarm OF the service.
These arsthe clauses inithe rebel con
script act that ELECTED so amuchs debate in
the rebel oopgrsss and caused such an In
digRsnt outery from the disaffscted North
'carolinapspsrs. They pronounced il q high
handed psrtidy on the part of the rebel lead.
eEstSthas break faith viii .6oss who had
entered for three years, and against their
consent enact q decree that they should be
rssaipedia The army during ths.Wsr, what.
ever timO that might be. Had the Con-
greSS of the United States dared to do such
thing what howl would have gone 5up
all oyeE shszland from the eopperhsad
Preigs aud fta what lGmsntabie tsrms they
wealtha ha4s shown that our sIibsftie hati
been uSuFped and thai we were now under
a complete military despotism. And yet
hoNlltItls they have had to ssy ip sohdsmi
nation of Jet. Davis : Co., for taking
away all voice. from he soultsrp people
as to how long they will serve in the army.
There is probably not q despotism in Bu-
rope, not RaSsia herself, that would have
dared 70 do what the rebel authosiues
have done, and JET great as the outrage
has been, We have really heard i very little
except from Iherebels themselves ID con- ,to:.
demnatioa of it. '-''4
The list of sxsmptS among the rebels is
considerably larger than our list. The
CoaRrSsI'of the United Ststes did not q dare
exempt themselves, neither did they ex-
empt members Of the General Government.
sxeeptth the Cabinet officers, The Vice. Pr.si.
deaf andsths Federal Judiciary. No mem.
Der ofany State government, except the
ExseutiIo thereof, is exempt. AN other
persons are liable 10 military .duty. Blu.
thsEsbslslisS aeds by tie rebel Congress-
sxsmh.I' 'tHensstteSand good ma ~ lloti1eF
ps5niS. NJ f6Iin1Iys, f iis. & , t55 40 -fs1
Section 10. That all laws granting ~.
captions from military ssrtice be, and The
same are hereby repealed, aud hereafter.
aone =, ,l,t 4 shall Pc exempted except the. fol-
k9MipBf MY fastttfsi ..-1IsEi ii7egre l43u9r
u All who shalt De held uafit for mil.
..Ary service ,gndsr rules prescribed by the
II. The Yies President of the Confed-
srsFes StatAsi che membeSs and 6fhcefs of
Oongrefs aud OF the aeyeFal State EegtsIa.
sarss' aad such other. Confederate, aud
State omeeEp ~ The LPresld dsnt. or ne Gov.
eFnors OF the respectiYs States NAV certify.
70 besaeesseaIy for tie pr6 j a6si iii -.
tieua Of the Confederate OF Sfate Goyefn.
raentss a1 lhe case may De. - fslSfsf ! j
III. Every minister Of reliRi6a author.
i1sd 10 preach according % The RI e of
bis church. aud Sho, ~ the passage of thfs
act, shall be regularly employed in fhs
dtschafgss OF his ministerial duties. supsr.
t9tendentssand ply ysicians Of asylum for
The deat damb aad blind, and 0i the, IN.
sans one dItor for each neGlspapsr beinT.
published u The time OF ths sage 6ffhis
act, aud such employ yses a. said sdttoF..
may certify on oath, 70 be,indispensabIe
@ tue publ1eatleu ct such 4neRspSpers ne
public psinter of the GoafederaEe and
Stats taegstntas aud sneh io1rneymsn
pt1niers as the said public printers shan
eestty oa cath, To- bss lfndfspe i ssbie
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