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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: April 2, 1862., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Dudley Davis or search for Dudley Davis in all documents.
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The conscription — again.
There is one excellent feature in the conscription proposed by President Davis.
It leaves at home all men over thirty-five years of age. There ought to be at home, always, a certain number of men to maintain order and supervise preparations for the field.
It will have another excellent effect.
All the States will be made to contribute equally to the war, and no one State will be called upon to bear an undue share of the burden.
With regard to the constitutionality of the law. President Davis, who knows as much about the Constitution as any other man, appears to regard it as entirely constitutional.--He recommends this plan as the best for "exercising the power of raising armies, which is vested in Congress by the Constitution."
But even if it were necessary to go beyond the Constitution in this case, did not Mr. Jefferson tell us that the power to purchase Louisiana was not to be found in the Constitution?
Is not the safety of the Sta
The Daily Dispatch: April 2, 1862., [Electronic resource], Correspondence. (search)