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The Daily Dispatch: October 1, 1862., [Electronic resource], A decision Adverse to the Constitutionality of the Conscript law. (search)
l we now violate it and destroy the State Governments? As reasonably might we commit suicide to avoid personal danger. Nor is this plea of necessity true in fact — The Conscript law can only furnish men. We have and had before, State laws to reach every man in the State between eighteen and forty five, and to say the Conscript law war necessary to procure men, is to maintain the arithmetical absurdity that there are more men in the country between eighteen and thirty-five than between eighteen and forty five. Whereupon, and for these reasons, it is ordered and adjudged by the Court that the act of the Confederate Congress known as the Conscript law, and entitled an act to further provide for the public defence, is told, and is hereby declared void, and that the plaintiff, James M. Lovinggood, he released and discharged from the custody and control of Sydney P. Bruce, and from the custody, and patrol of the Sheriff of this Court, and be set at liberty to go wherever he please.
The Daily Dispatch: October 1, 1862., [Electronic resource], A Sample of life at the North, (search)
st introduced. The amendment of Mr. Wigfall was rejected. The amendment of Mr. Johnson was adopted. The bill passed, and then the Senate, on motion, went into Executive session. House of Representatives.--House met at 11 o'clock. Prayer by Rev. Dr. Moore. Mr. Lander, of N. C., asked leave of absence for his colleague, Mr. Gaither, who has been detained from the House for some ten days by serious sickness. The leave was granted. Leave was also granted Messrs. Moore, Bruce, and Machen, of Ky. On motion of Mr. Foote, of Tenn., the House went into secret session on a report from the Committee of Foreign Affairs, and having spent some time therein, again resolved itself into open session. The special order of the day, the Exemption bill from the Senate, was taken up. Mr. Perkins, of La., moved to amend the first section by inserting in the 29th line, after the word mechanics, the words "in the active service and employment." Agreed to. Mr. Fos