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The Daily Dispatch: January 20, 1863., [Electronic resource], General Assembly of Virginia. (search)
$510 upon ; and asking that some legislative enactment be adopted in relation to the system. Mr. Saunders, of Campbell called up the resolution submitted of Saturday, providing for a committee of five to confer with the Secretary of War, with a view of devising some other arrangement to provide for the wants of the army, than the present arbitrary rule of impressment. The was sustained by Messrs Saunders, Prince, Brafford, and others--Mr. Prince reading a letter from a gentleman in Southampton, bitterly complaining of the inequality which the impressment system, inflicted upon the producing farms of Virginia, and citing several instances the matter. Mr. Hunter said the Secretary of War had nothing to do with the subject. It was wholly with the Quartermaster's Department, and the instructions from that officer relative to impressments are entirely satisfactory to everybody. These impressments were resorted to as a matter of necessity, and any injustice that might be infl