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The Daily Dispatch: September 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], Mineral resources of the Confederacy. (search)
The Sequestration law. --On the 30th of August last, an act was passed sequestrating the property of alien enemies. The confiscation of the property of the citizens of the Southern Confederacy made this act indispensable. The provisions of the act afforded apparently the most ample and complete means for its enforcement. The stringent interrogatories proposed by the Attorney General, and his instructions, were evidently designed to stimulate the Receivers and other officers of the Confederate Courts to the utmost promptness and energy in the execution of the law. Twenty-six days have elapsed since the enactment of the law; but no petition or process of garnishment has yet been issued from the Confederate Courts under the provisions of the Sequestration law. The instructions of the Attorney General, the spirit of the law, and the exigencies of the times, alike demand that Receivers should not wait the slow, uncertain process of "informations" against property. To sav