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The Daily Dispatch: January 4, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
The bill to prevent quartermasters and commissaries from robbing the Government, which was presented a few days ago by Mr. Orr, of Mississippi, from the Military Committee, contains some provisions of singular severity. Proceeding on the around that every man is to be regarded as a rascal until he can prove that he is an honest man, it compels the officer to give in, under oath, once in every twelve months, a schedule of all the property he possesses, and to account for any accumulation that may occur in the interval. We cannot conceive that such a law would have but one effect: It would compel every honest quartermaster and commissary to resign, for no man of spirit and honesty would accept an office in entering upon which he would Stand in the light of a criminal, and continue so to stand until he had proved himself to be innocent. The inquisition into the private affairs of individuals, which the law prescribes, is entirely opposed to the genius of our laws and the charac