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The Daily Dispatch: September 4, 1863., [Electronic resource], Slightly Insubordinate. (search)
Slightly Insubordinate.
--John G. Davis, ex-member of Congress from Indiana, lately delivered an address at Indianapolis, in which he declared that he was an out-and-out peace man, and in favor of a Western Confederacy. "As for Lincoln," said he, "Lincoln has played out, so has his gang of pickers and stealers, his ruffian provost marshals, and his great machine for the subjugation of the liberties of his own people."
Here is what Davis said upon the Federal conscript and Congressional enactments in general:
I never will pledge myself to submit to all laws Congress may pass.
I do not say that I have reference to the conscript act. Some say we must submit to that, but I will not say whether you should or not. Some say, let the Supreme Court decide the matter.
Probably you would not get a decision from the Supreme Court for ten years. Hang your hopes on a leatherwood, and not on a willow tree.
I never will submit to everything; I would be a slave if I did not take my