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The Daily Dispatch: March 20, 1865., [Electronic resource], Report of the Senate committee on President Davis's late message. (search)
s recommended the passage of a law putting slaves into the army as soldiers, and the message under consideration is the first official information that such a law would meet his approval. The Executive message transmitted to Congress on the 7th of November last suggests the propriety of enlarging the sphere of employment of the negro as a laborer, and for this purpose recommends that the absolute title to slaves be acquired by impressment, and, as an incentive to the faithful discharge of duty office of General-in-Chief--were originated and passed by Congress, with a view to the restoration of public confidence and the energetic administration of military affairs. On the subject of exemptions, the President, in his message of November 7th, uses the following language: "No pursuit nor position should relieve any one who is able to do active duty from enrollment in the army unless his functions or services are more useful to the defence of his country in another sphere. Bu