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Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 6 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: February 18, 1864., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: February 18, 1864., [Electronic resource], Confederate States Congress. (search)
First decision in Georgia under the Anti-substitute law. --Judge O. A. Lochrane, of the Superior Court, Macon Circuit, delivered an original and highly important opinion under the act repealing the substitute law in the case of Dennis Daley and Philip Fitzgerald vs. C. J. Harris, on Thursday morning, February 11th, as is reported by the Macon Telegraph: He held it was not only the right, but the duty, of a nation to protect itself, and that any contract or right flowing out of the operation of law which came in conflict with the preservation of the State, was an unconstitutional act — not obligatory on the law-making power, and within the constitutional power of the Government to repeal. That if the act allowing substitutes was to be regarded as a contract discharging principals from being called into the service, it was then a contract that the principal should not fight in the defence of the country, when it was endangered, and such contract was unauthorized by every