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verybody but the agriculturist and professional gentleman was exempted. He was opposed to giving mechanics any other privilege than that provided for by the recently adopted substitute bill. The exemption of printers would create a six by ten sheet in every village, and each paper would have its corps of printers, and in every other mechanical pursuit the effect would be the same. Mr. Preston, of Va., said that if the bill were the bill as presented by the Senator from Mississippi, (Mr. Brown,) there would be many grave objections. But war was not a measure to be conducted by soldiers alone. It would not do to send every man away to the battle-field; but all who were able to contribute to the war by staying at home more than they could by going to war, should stay at home, and all who could do more in the war should be made to go to war. Mr. Sparrow, chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs, explained the character of the bill, demonstrating that it was a restrictio