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The Daily Dispatch: October 1, 1862., [Electronic resource], Things about Washington. (search)
ion of the amount of the Confederate forces in the field may be gained from the following conversation: --Seward asked him how many rebels were now in arms as be believed. He replied, "Well, I can't say exactly; but as we have had seven hundred thousand, and as our armies — agreeable to the statements — have always defeated overwhelming bodies of rebels at least two to one, they must have a million and a half." The bulletins are daily filled with the most absurd canards — such as President Davis's death--Gen. Jackson's capture--Gen. Lee wounded--30,000 Confederate prisoners--great Union victory at the Creek of Antietam, all of which are greedily devoured and believed. After Pope's defeat, there were 25,000 wounded brought into Washington. --Once the Confederates crossed into Maryland and the ght at Sharpsburg, eight thousand have been brought into Washington, one thousand into Baltimore, one thousand into Philadelphia, the same number into New York, and it is said that there <
The Daily Dispatch: October 1, 1862., [Electronic resource], A decision Adverse to the Constitutionality of the Conscript law. (search)
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." The Constitution he was then livi