New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-03-07
Interesting Debate ON the Rebel Conseript
Law.
The following debate took place in the Con-
fedorate House Of Representatives on Friday last
rArnnclnENI nR ruE cONscRIPI LAW.

ENFORCEMENT or THE coSscRTPr LAW.
Mr. Tarner OF North Carolina offered the following
Rsored That the report Of Gen John A. Preon >upern.
endcnt II rpton shows aIiiy and cupa6e neglect III
the execution Of the conscrirl law.
hesorof That neither Congress nor the country iooA. 70
Gen Pillow fog faithful execution Of the laws and auy fail
ute delay Partially Ia hc execution must Fcss upon
R.ef Thst Con Preston In error ito the number q
con.cTpt. furnished by the State Of North carolina a. well as
In the number Of so-calied quasi volunteers
Mr Turner said Gen. Preston's figures were ineor
rect and he did violence to all rules Of conjecture and
good guessing in which be freely INDUCES IN hs report
far Us North Carolina WA concerned Nor was THIS
the first paper from his office that reflected upon the
State Of North Caroline doing her by bis figures aud
statements gross injustice. paper from the con
script oco had been held up this floor by the gen
tenan from Virginia (Alr staples aud the gentleman
from South Carolina Mr.. Miles,, showing mat North
Carolina had some 900 eNempts from military ser
vice when In truth sic had not half that number Gen
Preston ATTEMPTS 10 draw invous distinction bctwecl
the States Of Virginia and South Carolina on the one
side and Georgia and North Carolina on the other
His report saws; 81 virginia anu Sonth ,o.te
has been exhibited the slightest opposition 20 tue
conscrpi law. In North Carolina ana georgia theto
was popular and constituted resistance. Mr.. Turner
said that neither tho conscrpt law nor any other law oil
Congress had been resisted in North Carolina. Her
people were renowned wherever they are Known Tor
sheir digned obedience and cheerful Submission Ia AL
inst law, and even to unjust law, While they are III
force
Mr. Turner said that Gen. Preston gave. in his re.
port three classes Of soldiers: conscrpts volunteers
and quasi volunteers. la North Carolina there were
,wo classes volunteers and conscrpts All who were
not in the service for tue previous To the passage OF
the conscrpt law did. by the operation OF that law be-
come conscIips. Even the twelve months volunteers
they did roenst before the passage oil the con
Sc ript act, became conscrlpts.
Mr.. Turner said that Gen. Plensanton was gentle.
man fond of books and reading and he would suggest
that he relieve and refresh himself from the abors OF
his office by little useful reading; and he would call
his attention to the history Of this war and The reports
of Gems Lee "stonowall Jackson" d. III. HILL Long.
street A. T. ill., and other hero generals. who had led
IA, Carolina
volunteers Of other States. He would md more ire.
1nen, and honorable mention made OF North Carolina
soldiers than Of any other State and more than that,
upon the great battle fields OF Virginia North Carolina
had left more dead and wounded upon the field than
Virginia aud South Carolina combined.
Nj. Turner said that Gen. Hill, III his official report
saws that his division alone at Malvern Hill
fought the whole Yankee army, unaided by single
Confederate arm. His division was composed almost
entirely of North Carolina and Georgia uoops-more
tnan thrcefo Of them being from North Carolina
In the seven DAYS lighting around Richmond, Norm
Carolina lost twice many men as dll sOuln aiohl
and Vircina. She lost more in the first and second
battles OF Fredericksburg than did those two States;
In the Maryland expedition. at BoonsDor"uen ana
Sharpsbnrg she also lost mel than either OF those
States, and more than three tunes as many as dia Que
OF them He had never list OF the casualties OF
the battles II the Wilderness but ho had no doubt Dn
similar facts would be shown to tho credit oil Nofth
Carolina
North Caroliun on tho battlefield with Virginia and
South Carolina because Gen Preston hnu urhWn d
distinction III his report between those Staies-a us
tincton preiudieial and injurious to North Carolina
He did not mean to reflect on virginia or South Caro-
lima but his purpose was TO defend his own State. lie
did not say what State had been delinquent III TINS revo
luton nor That any State had BEEN but he claimed that
North Carolina had been less delinquent than any other
She had she'd more blood and left more dead upon the
field than any other State, aud lie would not sit
quietly by and her enquencies held up 10 the gaze
of her sister States and the world by those who have
shown as much delinq uency and mnch less hcroisn.
Mr. Miles Of South Carolina said he was not surprised
at the resolutions OF the gentleman from North Caro-.
hna or at the remarks with which he had accompanied
them That gentleman had more than ono occasion
seemed disposed Ia introduce matters before the House
and pursue Il line of discussion, calculated only 20 pro
duce III blood end III feeling among VI, and that At