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Athens Southern Watchman (Newspaper) - December 3, 1862, Athens, GeorgiaV John h. Christy. 3� a Nett fan mjg Flun Rah go Otheir to Taos Lof tics Grigul Tori Carrent Literato of. Two dollars in Advance. V0l�jtb in. Athens december 3, 1862. Number 36. The Southern watchman. Terms. Nutly two dollars a year Iid in Advas in a Othen Euc three Dollar. A 1 a or will to except the option o editor until All arrearage Are paid. R 1 f,.t a advert sino. inserted a Tho usual rate. Advertisement when not marked will to u Farhm. one Dollar per pm stare of 9 line. And fifty con per Square for eneu Iube a k Lil&.Rnl a a yearly advertisers. of candidates $5. In Advance notices exceeding six lines in length tred As advertisements. Jii5uuss Anh professional cats. Wing amp ., dealers in a y,,w.\bk, crockery China and in Jar get Athens Pic of 15r a Al ? Chens steam company. I Nickerson agent and Mit Pine >1� i is of circular saw Mills steam end ill i my lifting 1>ump& Shait Iho and a All other kinds of til Var mime �1�----- ,. Vaud hit ass castings of every description. Him repairing and finishing promptly exe Uloet Pattama fir a term Cash. F 1 w amp ii. H. J. Long wholesale 1 retail let i a of. Or. Mccleskey m.d., having Erma Nelly located in Athens will continue f Vino and surgery. Residence that id by or. Of has a office Homo a litre. If a Louii Ance surgeon Den 1 Rist a Thorn. Gil office on colleges venue i r tit. Athene of. _ if messes. Talnadge a Avion. Wat a i g1lleland, dentist a a a King Vilk da., respect fully solicits the Patron. O Rynn Diimig country. Foil satisfaction will r in Liis profession. _ if m. Kenney next door to the 1 Hank Ltd Athens constantly Keer on hand 8ta-n.i .1 fancy Duy floods and Choice family Heap for Cash or to prompt custom cars. J. .1 m. Matthews attorney , Dani Duvillo a. _ May 1 01 in ii. I Kisty Plain and 1-,-Jrv Book and Job Printer Broad .,i. In i Quot office Corner Virond and Wall Etreyu Over. If Sansom a i Tivod. _ of of Kelly photograph and m Broty a a artist. Rooms on Broad and the store of John r. Matthews. Mars of j h. Davis land broker collect to a a general agent. Augusta a a lie i tied to in any county of the state. A son und Shii Utree. _ office a. Mason k ., bookbinders. I a. F rulers and Blanc Book manufacturers Lull out Atlanta a. A. J. U. Cubist a agent july 22-1 y 1 atm an amp sum me a dealers in ii \ tinware Ami cutlery Corner of Croad ill streets Athens a a. _ of Kiev i lir. \ in lilt. England amp free a i a and retail dealer in Kocev ,, met Athens on. Of p in Barry fashionable Boot and Iione Haker. Street. Aluena ua., in in n Adi Pess to order in his line flt pm. G. Delony attorney Law Athens la., will attend promptly to All unlimited to in a a. Office on Broad str. Of j. M. Konney to. Store. Of \ m. Ph1lips, attorney Law i i Marietta. Oa., Wilt Prast Lee the counties Blue i Ridge circuit in Tho county of Fulton. Of the i. Circuit in the supremo Corn and in the u. S. A Nurt Marietta. Of Lite amp r1tch, wholesale k i retail clothiers and merchant Tai Broad Street athe. A. M. N. White bookseller and tat Iokeau and newspaper and Matotino 1�?~. A la a lit music instr air ends. Lamps a to. Fauci , c., Comer or my slice and a duo. Orders promptly filled Augusta rates. Globe hotel aug Rufetta go. Arms Millarke proprietor. Iii i will i to and from this hotel free feb. 2?.�?ly removal. I of. Ii to Ribor has removed Bis Boot and shoe to his former Atay Ufi the Enst Side of oct where to will he a a a of to wait on his a a the Public. Charles ult ones. Blacksmithing. Removal. A i l.-Ril. has removed i shop to the stand Oren Udby j. B. Burpee Corner Raj ask Street so whore to is re tidy to have Kimi Tung line promptly executed. I a. -d.s. New Orleans syrup a is half tils. A a a _ a fur Cesli. A i Cort. F 1. To. 11 and 12, Franklin House buggies buggies 1 m a a uthes a 1 a s. I 1 i j buggy j f our Lirse Wagon two Urso we gnu1 a Ili Rao Wagon 1 o1 1 by Curt now Aud Complete l la a or carry log wheel _. A i furry log Ooin Pluto second hand i Lyhs by and a on spoke ii Hub and Folio a Enante led cloth Pitt my buggy Aud Wagon liar nose All kinds of a a. tri a ii Uminga band fur sold Low by the Jer 16. Harness sole a my Upp. John h. Newton. Office Southern. Express . Ii. Notice. A. \. Must he paid for on delivery. Other to us. will be lir Knght Back and a trod oirnor1� 1 expense. April so. 196. We. Williams Arent nuke House and lot for Sals. M f user intr Bekri fur a ale big Heuton and lot to Quot Polulak mrs. Baxter. There Are a the la a a ,0 we ko111i water Allf p a bumming a. The i 1&Quot 1 to Etc of repair. Speech of Hon. Linton Stephens delivered before the House of representatives of Georgia Friday november huh 1362, on the Resolution of the Senate authorising the governor to Call out the militia of Caulen a and adjoining Countie to suppress the raids of the enemy and on the unconstitutionality of the conscript Laio. Or. Stephens said or. Speaker the question before us is one of great Public importance and she Bibl to decided upon its merits. 1 have no personal or party feelings in the mutter and deeply regret that any attempt has been to give the discussion a personal or party direction. The cry bus Eoto to us that women and children have Boon insulted by negroes from the enemy. The people have been plundered and their property Des troyed not. By gunboats but by armed negroes who landed from Tho boats and then their raid into Tho country. They came on Shore committed the outrages and returned with impunity not a shot being fired them. Col. Floy in his letter says that lie has militia his command that could be available in repelling Tiloso negro raids and asks leave to Call them out. Litis been asked Why this application comes this particular time is alleged by some that is a a got up affair. becomes us to View not Asa personal or partisan matter. How can men pretend to believe that this is got up manufactured fur the occasion the raid took place of the 4th instant and the letter of the colonel was written on the the before the decision of the supreme court was and before was known that the question would he before them. The governor did not receive the letter until before yesterday and he sent in Bis Mes Sago yesterday. I happen to know that a similar letter was received yesterday by the governor from Mcintosh county giving an account of a similar raid from the negroes and Yankees. An old Man was seized and Bis negroes carried off. Again the vandals returned to their boats und not a shot was fired them. Was that too a got up Alfair will gentlemen allow them stoves to be blinded so As to accept facts like those ? these facts were got up for no purpose by to give Relief if the governor has the a Tower to afford . Am i to stand Here to persuade men to Grant Relief to women and children and feeble old men when they Aro outraged by negroes in arms ? i do not believe there is a georgian not ready to go Over to Lincoln who is not ready to afford Relief provided to has Tho Power to do so. The gentleman from Monroe or. Cuba Niss Speaks of the Folly of the governors military strategy in proposing to resist gunboats with raw militia. I am afraid sir that the gentleman is not capable of judging the governor fairly and with an unprejudiced Eye. He asks Liat use there is in sending a few raw militia to tight gunboats. To tight gunboats is one thing and to repel the raids of negroes after they have left the boats is another thing. The Gallant Morgan with Bis band of guerillas has covered himself with glory and renown. He has not attacked Buellis army lie bad better sense but to knew How to Lull upon Buellis detached foraging allies and capture Ordes Lroy them. Col. Loyd asks to to allowed to attack the parties of negroes und Yankees after they have left their boats to pillage and Rob and insult and abuse women and children. He did not ask to be allowed to Attales gunboats. The gentleman imputes to the governor a military strategy which Tho governor has not suggested Aud Theu denounces its Folly. Sir you cannot be excused from granting this Relief you have the Power to Grant . Now have you the Power ? the gentleman from Monroe makes an admission on this Point which is fatal to his conclusions. He charges that the governor has utter re a calumny against Tho supreme court in saying that under acts of Congress and Tho decision of the court the Power seems to be denied to him to Call out Tho militia even for the Protection of on mothers Sisters wives Aud daughters against oar own slaves to says this statement by the governor that Bis Power Socall out the militia tor those purposes seems to be denied by the court is not True and is a calumny. Then if Lito governor Lias the Power Why not be willing to Tell him to exercise say in the name of the insulted outraged and suffering women let him order the help once if indeed there be no obstruction in the Way ? the governor does not say that those acts and this decision Are a real obstruction. What he says to they seem to Dony him the Power by declaring that the Bolo militia of Tho state Are Hub Jeet to the command of Tho president. The gentleman in disavowing this As the effect of the cons erupt Law and of the courts decision strikes Down All pre Tenso tin opposing Tho exercise of the Power which lie governor asks. If there is no difficulty on the score of Power How ban the gentleman of Poce himself to this Relief which is Besought on the a Art of our robbed and bleeding citizens sir these acts and ibis decision do As Tho governor affirms seem to deny to him the Power to cult out Tho militia. Lor any purpose whatever. They do seem to deny. A to the governor and to the state the re to protect the citizens of the state Tho right to protect the citizens of the Stato from invasion by her own militia. T therefore propose to review this a Holu a subject with a View to prove that the acts we the decision wrong and that the obstruction in Ilio Way Oftie is duty is Only deeming Aud not to criticise or even to express a different opinion from . This sir,.is a doctrine Only less dangerous than conscription itself. The court i acknowledge is �1 i a i Quot �?~�i1?-1� a a a Quot a b. Falter. A Good and f 3 9,.iotih, a old Ihor a the highest jut Lucial tribunal in this a state and legitimately controls All subordinate judicial tribunals by is a new doctrine and a dangerous one that the judiciary is Superior to the legislature. Each department of our government is Independent and each is supreme in its own sphere and in the exercise of the functions with which is Elo Thod by the Constitution. Nobody outside of the old Federal party Ever held that the courts could bind the legislature or the exec native by their expositions of political rights. This action of the supreme court is no More binding upon us than Tho decision of judge Thomas in opposition to . Neither his opinion nor their opinion has any binding authority Over us and neither is entitled to any weight with As any farther than the reasons go by which is supported but As Tho weight of the decision will be More or less affected by the circumstances under which was is competent and proper for a to consider As the governor has done what these circumstances were. Tho gentleman from Monroe complains because the governor says was under Strong a outside is not this the truth ? to says this is a calumny. I say is Tho truth. Was there not a strop a a outside pressure a 1 have no doubt every member of Tho court was actuated by a Strong desire to sustain the government by the decision if they could do so. Judge Jenkins declared in delivering Tho decision Elliut he was gratified in being Able to uphold the hands of the government. If so there was a Strong a outside the governor in saying so spoke Only what every candid Man acknowledges to be the truth and the court acknowledges itself to have been under just Sueb a pressure us gentlemen have repeatedly avowed to to operating upon themselves upon this floor a Strong and Earnest desire to be in Unity and Accord with All the policy of the Confederate government. This being True is calumny to say so is not a circumstance which is properly considered in estimating the Vaht of and weight of the decision ? i am not hero As Tho governor s Champion nor As the Champion or censor of the courts or of anybody else. I form my own opinions and follow my own to evictions. The governor has done Many things which i approve and some which i do not. I shall whenever occasion requires express my approbation or disapproval of Liis Acia according to the conviction of my judgment. This comment from the governor is a True one and a fair one und appropriate to the circumstances of tic Case. The gentleman from Monroe is also highly indignant another calumny which he imputes to the governor but which Ite imputes erroneously. He complains of the governor a having charged a Olusik a Between the counsel who argued the Case and the court who decided . The governor has no such charge lie Only says that the counsel on both sides of the ease wore agreed in their individual opinions that the decision ought to Boas was. He mentions this singular circumstance As another reason to show that the ease did not have a fair Chance before the court and to detract from the weight of the decision. Tho charge of calumny on this score is unfounded and unfair. I affirm Tomt every word of the governors statement on this Point is True and that the decision was rendered of the governor declares was under Peculiar circumstances and under outside pressure. I do not think i go beyond the Bounds of propriety when 1 say to you that judge Jenkins himself stated that Tho counsel for the conscript declared in his argument Bosforo Tho court that his judgment was against Tho bide which he represented. This is a fact notorious in this town. I do not Hes Italo to of lift that Tho circumstances under which the decision Ems do greatly detract from the weight to which Otho Wiso be entitled. Sir i care no More authority. One Good Eon tooling reason for the Faith that is in me is in my judgment Worth More than the opinions of All the courts and of the president Aud of Congress and of every body else in sep a ported by reason. I intend to treat the decision respectfully but feel Well assured that bus no binding authority upon to nor upon this House. Asa legislator i deny the a Tower of Tho governor or of the judges or of Alithe judicial tribunals on Earth to construe Tho Constitution for to. On what foundation of reason then does this decision rest the court the president All the advocates of conscription rest upon the Power which is Given to Congress to raise armies. They ail us met that this Power Inis limitations upon Section and. Limitation do exist seems to me to be demonstrable and yet the court have based their whole decision upon an Assumption of this very Point on which the whole question necessarily Stirns. Therefore 1 say sir that that decision and All its reasoning must go for nothing because is founded upon an Assumption of the whole Case the beginning. The Only thing which the court had to do was to prove the proposition which they assumed and pronounced to to not capable of being plainer by argument. I think indeed sir their proposition denying a connection two Powers cannot be Ludo plainer by argument. But sir argument can refute to a demonstration. According to their own construction of the Power to raise armies embraces All possible and proper modes of raising armies. Now sir Callin Gottlie militia is one of raising an army. Gentlemen cannot deny . Their own construction of raising armies their Owa necessary construction a makes include All modes of raising them. There May to an army of Ini Litia As Well As an army of regulars. Calling out the militia therefore is one of ruining armies. Now sir will Man deny that in raising armies by this Congress is Coati used to Tho conditions and Auuner which the Constitution has prescribed for calling Forth the militia ? Here then sir is once an obvious and most important limitation which the Power to provide for calling Forth Tho militia Las Over the to liar Power to raise armies. When armies Are raised by calling Forth the militia there Are remarkable guards thrown around its exercise. From these guards sir we Learnt what the meaning of ten show or is to provide for calling Forth Tho militia. In my judgment there is but two modes of raising armies one is by voluntary enlistment. This is without compulsion and Tho other is by calling Forth the militia. This is a process of compulsion. My construction of the Constitution is Talaat the general Power to raise armies refers Only to the first Model by voluntary enlistment Aud that the Osiier Power to provide for calling Forth Iho militia refers to the Only compulsory which Congress can use under Tho Constitution. The whole question turns then upon the meaning of these terms a a to provide for calling Forth the the advocates of conscription say that the militia in this font action Means nothing hut the militia organization us distinguished from the men who Eom eos . I say the militia Means the arms earing or fighting men of the country. Whether their meaning or mine be the True one one thing is certain that this Power to Call Forth the militia whatever that militia May to is guarded by the Constitution in a manner which is so Rem Krable that no Man con Overlook or Tad to receive a flood of Light from As to the True meaning of the Power itself. Let us ascertain what triese guards Are. In Tho first place Congress cannot provide for calling Forth the militia except for some one of the three purposes of executing the Laws in insurrection or repelling invasion. Here is a remarkable guard which is a tut upon this Power of calling Forth the militia but which is entirely Aba ont from that other Power to raise armies and the Power to raise armies whatever May mean is clearly applicable to a state of peace As Well us to a mate of War but the other Power to Pic re de for culling Forth the militia is confined to three of the greatest emergencies which can summon freemen to arms. Why confine and limit this Power in so remarkable of a a a a Aap. J. A manner if the framers of the Constitution did not consider to to a very great Power and one whose exercise needed confine Montand guarding the militia indeed Means nothing hut the Mere organization what rational reason could the framers of the Constitution have had fur guarding the calling Forth of. Tho militia in to remarkable a manner is us demonstrable As any proposition in constitutional Law can be that was not Tho Mero Organiza Tion which they intended to protect. I Challenge any Man to assign a rational reason they could have had for More organization without protecting Tho men composing . I predict now that there will be no response during this debate to this Challenge. I ask the House to Mark Ray prediction. Again 1 ask what rational purpose they could have had in confining Tho exorcise a of this Power three great emergencies Iii he i name if indeed the militia Means to thing but Tho Mere Organ Zanon ? i sir eat us Ign a great reason Aud a great purpose revealed by this guard upon Tho Power if militia moans As i Fahrm Means the Tigi iting Man or arms bearing men of the country. With that meaning of the term militia the great purpose or High is Rev aloud is to protect personal Liberty by limiting Lite eases in which compulsory served to the states. If not exercised by them cannot be exercised by anybody no More than elect senators to the Confederate Congress for the Stato of Georgia if Georgia herself should Tail or refuse to elect Thom. Now troops cannot be moved without officers to conduct Thom. They Carnot be removed one Inch and the control which the states have reserved to themselves Over the appointment of the officers gives them a perfect Check a veto Over the calling Forth of their militia. If the officers do not exist the states May refuse to appoint them. If they do exist having been appointed by Tho states the states May unquestionably abrogate their appointment. The Congress then cannot exercise this Power of calling Forth Tho military without the concurrent action of the states in appointing the necessary officers Oach state appointing the officers for the troops which she sends. That this reservation to the states amounts to a Check and completo veto in the hands of the states is a proposition which i Lay Down with All Confidence and Challenge a denial of . Now sir i ask what is the purpose of if Pon the supposition that militia Means nothing but the Mero organization there w no purpose in . There can be none. Again i Challenge the suggestion a even the suggestions of a rational purpose in this a great reservation if the militia Means nothing but the More organization. Upon the supposition that Means what i say Means Tho Aruis bearing or fighting men a great purpose stands revue led the purpose of Quot leaving each state armed with the Power to shield her men from any compulsory military service which she May deem injurious to her rights or destructive to iter existence. These two guards which consist in conferring by enumeration the occasions on which May be exercised and in reserving to the states control and veto Over its exercise Manifest that this Power of calling Forth the militia Wab a great Power in the estimation of the framers of the Constitution. Some great purpose or purposes were to be served by these guards. The question returns sir with accumulated Force what rational purpose can be 6orved by either of them if Tho tiling guarded was the More organization leaving the men who composed to the unlimited control of Congress if the thing guarded is Tho Mero Hull leaving the Ker Uel to the unlimited control and destruction of Tho Confederate government j Tivo asked this question in vain and vain will to the asking to Tho end of the chapter. I affirm first that there could have been no rational purpose in thus guarding the militia upon their supposition of what the militia Means and i affirm in the next Placo that any purpose which May have been in View if indeed be possible to suggest one is necessarily Defeated. The advocates of conscription say that these protecting guards Aro confined to the Mere organization. But the organization itself is subject to destruction by Congress if Tho men of which is composed Are left to Congress unlimited control. I am told by Geti Lomen that under the Power to raise armies they May take the citizens who com a Tose the militia organization but cannot take the organization itself. Now any purpose founded upon the Protection of the Mere organization must fall for Tho organization itself is gone when All its materials Are gone. I ask you sir where will to the militia organization which the Constitution has so carefully guarded and put under the states after conscription has performed its office of taking ail the materials of which that organization is composed gentlemen argue As if the conscription Law respects and passes by Tho militia organization but How does respect sir All its men and All its officers Are taken away by conscription provided they fall within Tho prescribed Ages of 18 and 45 years. Gentlemen argue As if after All the fighting men Aro gone Georgia would still have the satisfaction of retaining a proud array of generals colonels majors captains lieutenants sergeants and corporals without a Man to pull a trigger. But sir she is spared this mockery this pretence of respecting Hor militia for the conscription act leaves her not a Man nor an officer unless he is exempted by ago. This whole controversy turns upon the moaning of a a the advocates of conscription say that Means nothing but the militia organization. I say Means Tho fighting men of the country whether organized or unorganized. This is the Issue Between us. To decide satisfactorily we have but to look into the Constitution and Sec what Powers Are conferred upon Congress and what Powers Are reserved to the states Over this militia. The Power is not Given Congress to Call them Forth but Only Tho Power to provide for calling them Forth. The a ailing Forth must be done by some a a Congress cannot oven make but disagree As to what these limitations \ military service can be required by the Are. The great print of diff Ereneo Between Confederate government. Sir in Sheso them and to is us to whether is limited or not by that Oiler Power which Congress has to provide for culling Forth the militia. Judge Jenkins begins his argument by de a. A a a am Mot with the proposition a the court closes the iding and Actu ure of Quot the state and for the legislature the other. He says Quot that this is too Plain to by a fit Tinor by argument and he does not argue . Tims he commences by assuming or begging the Witolo question fur sir tue whole que Sulioti of the constitutionality of conscription turns upon Tjio meaning of this Power in Congress to provide for calling Forth Tho militia. If to True that this Power has no connection with nor limitation Over the other than sir i adn Jit that conscription is constitutional a but on the other hand if be True triad this Power to privy Ideford calling Forth. with and must the militia has a. A by hip to const rued in Eori motion wit the other Power Job hear min a then so cups rip i out of Hje owl by i a. That this Coa appointment times and with some men this purpose May be regarded a of slight but in my estimation Isono if immense importance. I am proud As a son of Trevor Gia in believing that she has never surrendered to any Power outside of her Tho right to require military service of her citizens by compulsion unless there i some Otie of the three great emergencies which i have named to Justiin a the exorcise of that Power. But Tiore is another guard thro wii around this Power of calling Forth the whenever the militia is tailed Forth under a lev a of Congress Tho appointment if the officers is Resol Ved to the Stales. The True. Nature and importance of this reservation seems not to be generally understood Ami appreciated. I do not doubt pair that this reservation to Tho st�u�?~3, of tins appointment of the officers amounts to and i intended to amount to a a Umphis the hands of. Each Batto Over urn body else. Provision for calling them Forth except tor some one of the three great emergencies which have been named and then each state has the constitutional Power reserved to Bor of defeating the Call As to her own militia by refusing to appoint. The necessary officers or by abrogating the appointment of such officers As May happen to exist the time. Why leave Congress Froe to constrain the citizens of this country into their armies in times of peace and yet withhold the Liam of Congress from touching a Mere militia organization except for the great purpose of executing the Laws suppressing insurrection or repelling invasion wore sible emergencies and then to suppose aurthor that they have failed in their intended Protection to that organization Bince they have loft to to destroyed by the removal of All Tho materials of which is composed. The advocates of conscription Placo Tho framers of the Constitution in the attitude of stupidity. Impale them for the ridicule of Mankind they cannot Rescue them front this position. I do Rescue them by imputing to Thom an intention which is easily read and which we should naturally expect to emanate from Tho Mon who had just achieved their Liberty Tho Price of great blood and great treasure an intention to shield personal Liberty by limiting Tho cases in which compulsory military service could be required and the greater intention of shielding state rights and state existence by leaving to Eracli state Tho Power to withhold her citizens from any compulsory Scrico which she might deem destructive to her existe Nee. Gentlemen who cannot read these great purposes in Tho language used must to blinded in proud icon by the rj�?�r0- a a determination not to Soo them. They do not Seo them Only because they close their eyes to Thom. According to my Reading of the Constitution All the citizens of All the states Are protected from compulsory military service to Tho Confederate govern meet except in those great emergencies where none should be protected and each Stato is Armod with a Power to protect herself from Tho danger of having her fighting men forced into a cause which she May condemn or deem injurious or destructive to herself. According to my Reading of the Constitution Tho guards which Are thrown around the Power of Congress to provide for the calling Forth of the militia secure objects of Gigantic importance. According to the Reading of the advocates of conscription these guards be Eui e nothing All. I defy any gentle Man to Point out to to Ono single useful or rational purpose that is served by them. Their alleged Protection of the military organization is useless so Long As All the fighting men of that organization can to taken away from by Congress. But that alleged Protection itself is an invention a myth. done to exist and can exists Long As the organization which they Allego to be the object of Protection is loft to distraction by removing its materials. These gentlemen stand Here to in Tho attitude of affirming that Thoro is a Power outside of Georgia which can come into Hor Borders and rightfully drag All her fighting Mon into its armies against the w7il of her citizens and against her own will. After this let gentlemen cease to talk of Georgia a sovereignty. When ail her fighting men can to taken away from her against their will and her own by an external Power she has and can have no sovereignty left. To talk of sovereignty after that is a mockery is an insult added to injury and robbery. Throw such sovereignty As this sir to Tho dogs done to insult men trained in Liberty by thrusting in their Facos. I stand Here to As the advocate of Georgia a sovereignty. I deny that any Power has deprived or can deprive her of. Lighting men against their will and her will. The conscription Law which undertakes to Doit is against the great charter of the a Constitution. In. My judgment sir is void and forms no obstruction to the exp a noise of Georgia a rights Tho exe Reiso of Georgia a Sovereign rights to protect her own people from invasion. I do not propose to resist those unconstitutional Laws by arms. I propose to leave Thom to the administration of the courts wherever their administration property Falls within the sphere of Tho court but while i do not propose to resist them i do propose that the legislature of Georgia shall Declaro its opinion of them its deliberate judgment that they use an in Ero Lehment non Tho sovereignly of Georgia. I would also accompany this declaration by the practical assertion Ofilio right. I would have Floyd and Bis forty militia men ordered out under Georgia a retained right of keeping troops in War for her own Protection and Tiave them to stand upon Tho Seaboard As a Monument of Georgia a sovereignty to be seen and known by Georgia a sons by Hor invading enemy and by the whole world As a Monument of Georgia a sovereignty. But the advocates of conscription departing from the constitutional construction of the Power have entertained us with the presentation of the dreadful consequences which would in sic if Congress were denied the Power which they . To Are told that any government which lacks such a Power is deserving of contempt sir does Tho government of England deserve the contempt of Mankind ? will any Man read tier history and look Hor Pilsen position and dare to Mako such an of formation ? and yet sir Tho government of England bus not the Power of raising armies from her citizens by com Paumi. We Are told by or. Hal Lam in his Contti the Fht Mera of the Constitution so stolid i or ? s pos stupid ? is possible to believe ? a stain Apil a shame up ii their character for sense Tuti Oual history that Tho Powys do not. Belong to the British government under the British Constitution. He toll us is True that was exercised by the Parfida ment but was afterwards receded from because War unconstitutional. was exercised by the parliament again but was confined to such persons Only As Lead no occupation that is to say was confined in its exercise in the second instant vagabonds. Tho British statesmen not be found who would the British Gover a eruption Over anybody i As or. Hallam Well Rem Oft use own militia leave Congress unlimited Power to drag the citizens of the states into its Arm

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