It enacts, also, that the President shall appoint the officers — a clear and palpable violation of the rights of the States reserved in said 10th clause.
In this view I am sustained by the President of the Confederate States himself.
The fact is recorded in his life, written by John Savage, contained in a book entitled "Our Living Representative Men," page 172, as follows:
"The term of enlistment of the handful that remained of the Mississippi regiment, expired in July, 1847. and Col. Davis was ordered name.
While in New Orleans he received from the President Polk the commission of Brigadier General Volunteers, but declined the honor on the ground that neither Congress nor the President had a right to make such an appointment.
The Constitution reserved to the States, respectively, the appointment of officers of the militia, and consequently the mption of this duty by the Federal Government was a violation of the rights of the States."
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Wm H Richards, free, Baltimore Md.
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Chas Montgomery, free, D C.
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Thos Jackson, free, New York State.
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Chas Boswell, slave of Wm Davis, Princes William co, Va.
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Alex Johnson, free, New York.
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John, slave of Capt Stevens, Fredericksburg.
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