The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1867-02-15


yes recklessly invoking. Let them pause
in their career and contemplate its awful
revelations.
Provisions Of the Militia Bill.
The bill enrolling the militia of this State
and the formation of State guard, PFovi-
des in section first, for the immediate en-
rollment of all able bodied male persons 4
between the ages of eighteen aud fOrty-fve,
with the exception of idiots, lunatics, and
eouvicts. The officers for this duty
are to be appointed by the Governor, and
the enrolment is to be renewed in October
of each year. Section second provides,
That the Volunteer State Guard Of the
State of Tennessee shall consist of one reg
iment of cavalry or infantry organized Of
volunteers from the enrolled militia in each
Congressional District represented in the
Congress of the United States, half of
which regiment may be composed of col
ored men, if more than one-third of the en-
rolled militia of such district shall be col
ored men aud n person shall be an Off
/ Ger, or private in said volunteer State guard
who shall be disqualified for, or exempt
from, enrolment in the militia, or shall
ever have voluntarily borne arms against
| the United States, or shall have voluntari-
/ ly given aid, countenance, counsel or en-
couragement to persons engaged in armed
hostility thereto, or shall have sought or
accepted, or attempted to exercise the
( functions of any Office whatever under any
authority or pretended authority in hostiIi
ly thereto, or shall have yielded a volunta-
ry support to any pretended government,
authority, power or constitution within the
United States, hostile Or inimical thereto.
Section third provides that the organize
tion shall take place by companies, each
member Of which shall swear and fle the
regular, retrospective, pluperfect loyal
oath. The companies are authorized to
elect line officers, and form into regiments,
brigades and divisions their elected Of
fcers to be commissioned by the Governor
who is made commander-ir-c chief, with tht
power to appoint an Adjutant-G General a:
Chief of Staff, with the rank of Brigadier
General, and also full staff.
Section four provides that the period o.
service in the State Guard shall be fer three
years. THIS force is placed under the i'm
mediate command of the Governor, who
has power to order all or any portion of i
to any point in hesitate. He is only sub.
iect in his disposition of it, to the control
of the laws in regard to it passed by the
Legislature.
The ensuing sections of the bill to the
twenty second, pertainto the details of the
organization. That section and the re-
mainder makes it the duty of the Governor
to use this force in execution of the laws
when the civil authorities are, from any
cause, inadequate to repel invasion and sup
press instruction against the State or tht
United States to organize the voluntee
State guard for the protection of the peace
able people of the State, and to bring t
i Justice all outlaws, murdereTs, robbers
: thieves. and other offenders, when the civi
e authorities refuse, neglect, or, from an.
cause fail to do SO, and to protect the wei
o disposed people against the violence c
i those who have been IN rebellion agaius
: the authority or laws thereof, made an
: provided for the government Of the peaeea
It bic and well disposed citizens, i. shall b
e the duty of the Governor to withdraw th
) troops as soon as it can be done with safe
g ty to the well disposed citizens Of sal
s county or counties, in order to relieve th
D State as far as possible from any tax th'
; might be otherwise oppressive.
II This is the substance Of this despoti
1t scheme Of the Radicals to set aside the Ia
: and substitute military force in the govern
e meut of Tennessee. It will entail million
of expense, and produce, in ten-fOld d.
r gree. the trouble which it is pretended as
d means Of preventing. It is the mOet mis
i chievous proposition ever offered in th
ot Legislature. It has nothing but evil in i
'e The pretezts upon which tits urged are II
l. foanded. The real object is the retentiO
of power in the hands Of the Radicals.
5, enforced, it will beget troubles that vi
or outlive the generation in which they tai
ID their rise, and viii exert upon the ProsPel
y ity of the State most pernicious Unfit
ot ence.-NasHUiHe Union and Dispatch.