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The proposed conscription. On the 28th of March, President Davis sent in to Congress a message, in which he recommended "the passage of a law declaring that all persons residing within the Confederate States, between the ages of 18 and 35 years, and rightfully subject to military duly, shall be held to be in the military service of the Confederate States, and that some plain and simple method be adopted for their prompt enrollment and organization, repealing all the legislation heretofore enacted, which would conflict with the system proposed." The plan here proposed is what is called "conscription" in Europe, and in the terrible shocks to which every country on that continent has been exposed, it has always been found the most efficient, if not the only mode of bringing out the whole strength of the country. Various objections have been made to it in Congress, where, we are sorry to see, a disposition prevails to waste time in discussion, while the promptest and most vigorous a