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r. 1-iOcie, L»ynn; Dan’l H. Miller, Williamsburg;[nteartader-[urofre-*8ck-thelenintheformdghton-nsein-theforfornoteenf 9n,IOWies-.en-theod,aveaveim-up-i of andbat-jar-N at ban Harris, Lynn; Jno. B. Longfellow, Lynn; John R. Fisher, Lynn; Urban Baldwin, Lynn; Pleasant W. Bales, Lynn; Isaac N. Bales, Lynn; Curtis L. Heal, Lynn; Jesse Hodgins, Lynn;Williamsburg; John J. Stanley, Williamsburg. Baldwin, the two Bales, Heal and Hodgins deliberately deserted from the transports on the Mississippi river. The others never left the State with the regiment.Company F—Patrick Fox, Richmond; John Barnes, Arba; Isaac F. Ogborn, Richmond; Geo. W. Ross, Richmond; James P. Smith, Springfield, Ohio; Js. Dunn, Memphis, Tenn.; Sidney Potter, Bear Creek; Aaron F. Adams, Beliaks; Henry M. Murphy, Bellaka; George Sutton, Union City. The last two deliberately deserted from the care at Centralia, 111, Adams and Potter at Arkansas Post. Dunn at Memphis. The others never left the State.Company Q—Benjamin Hinchman, Clifton, Ind.; Adney Ward, College Corner; Martin Coleman, unknown; John Kelly, Alton, Ind.; Sarn’I Price, Plainfield; Richard Webster, Brownsville; William Porter, Billingsville; Peter Maley, Lib-ctyi Jacob Van Hatter, Hew Corner; Henry B. Trout, Hew Corner; Watson Jones, Brownsville, Ind. Hinchman and Ward deliberately deserted from the transports on the Mississippi river. The others never left the State with the regiment.Company I[—Joseph Grove, Middletown.-— Never been with the regiment.Company I—Thomas Cooper, Butler Co., Ohio; Mahlon D. Harvey, Henry Co., Ind.; 8eth Woods, Henry Co., Ind.; Sam’I Martin, Henry Co., Ind.; David Con well, Henry Co., Ind.— None of these men ever left the State with theregiment.Company AT—I, W. Cahill, Lima, Ohio; John M. Ferran, Lima, Ohio; Daniel Kline, Lima, Ohio; Larkin Cutlins, Fayette Co., Ind.; John S. Conaway, Union Co., Ind.; James Hurt, Fayette Co., Ind.; Renjamin Johns, Fayette Co.; William Light, Fayette Co.; John Strong, Union Co.; Joseph Lerring, Union Co; Isaac Sum-ers, Union Co.; William Boggs, Union Co.— Conaway, Hurt, Johns and 8trong deliberately deserted from the cars inlllinois. Boggs was tied to a tree after the battle of Chickasaw Bluffs, for cowardice on the field of battle, and deliberately deserted at Napoleon, Ark. The others never lelt the State.uu jubuuou. liov mer of the i fair re* een vic-areand) beor?,»nlyandr of wn i for rith , we na-thethethe iwer the un-•pen 11 ryisb-tioseart-eld.d all andwho be the not nor e or vedLAs-oare is 1 thepere toitive f all out, IB in withitro*rted.fromWasm.-191,-olis-* ofThe men who never left the State with the regiment are of diffetent classes.— Some may be sick and unable to get to tbeir regiment and are excusable, of course. Some are scoundrels who only enlisted to get the county and Government bounty, and the advanced pay.— Some enlisted to get a commission, and failing, refuse (o join their regiment as soldiers. Some are cowards, and having snuffed gunpowder afar off, are skulking from duty. Some are feigning sickness, while othera are “laying around loose,’* expecting pay, bounty, Ac., without doing duty, and are known in the army as “Che-nanigans. All bave been mustered and recorded at Washington as deserters—-a record of crime, disgrace and shame that will stand against them and their posterity forever, unless they return to duty, and bave that record changed. The men who deliberately deserted from the regiment, en route to the field, are cowardly dogs, who richly deserve the severest pooalties of the law. A deserter commits the highestecrime known in the law, and adds to it perjury, besides proving himself a traitor, a coward and a thief. A criminal, because the law punishes him with death— a perjurer, because he swore before high heaven and meo, “that he would Berve the United States honestly and faithfully,” and that he would obey “the rules and articles of war”—a traitor, because he abandons his country in* her time of need —a coward, because he skulks from his duty—a thief, because be steals the bounty, and the pay up to the time of danger. And yet, strange to say, these meo, covered all over with crime, dishonor and shame, are allowed to run at large in a loyal eommuoity, aod are eveo received into the society of loyal mao and women, while their oomradee are far away, Buffering the privations and dangers of war, and are oompelled to do the work that these skulkers and villains are avoiding. If tha pfficers at home, in each county, whose duty it is to arrest these orimioale, were worth a “bogus copper,” thara would be no desertera. But there is • power st home more , potent thea^oflfeem. If the loyel people would score end despite these fallows es they deserve, they would either return to tbeir regiment, hr leaves country they ere trying to diem of the 69th tidlMt*vu uy oiivuiudecide.The Constitution of the State has made the Governor Commander-in-Chief of all its military forces, and has made it his duty to call them out when necessary to execute the laws, to suppress insurrection, or to repel invasion- A similar provision is found in the Constitutions of all the other States, and the Constitution of the United Slates coofers like powers and duties upon the President. It excludes, necessarily, all idea of there being substituted, by any authority whatever, any other Com-mander-in Chief than the President in the one case, and the Governors of the States in all the others. It devolves upon these functionaries clone the responsibility and duty of seeing that the laws are executed, that insurrections are suppressed and invasions repelled. These responsibilities belong, exclusively, by our theory of government, to the Executive Department, which, inthe discharge of obligations imposed by the Constitution, must act, in order to preserve its efficiency, independently of the Legislature or the Judiciary. The Legislature may direct the Executive in all those matters over which the Constitution has given it the power to do so, but it has no more right to substitute another Commander- in-Cbief of the Army, or to require of some other officer that he shall suppress insurrections or repel invasions, than it has to require that a bill, passed by both Houses of the Legislature shall become a law when it is approved by the Secretary of State. It will do no good to argue with a man who would dispute these propositions,any more than it would to argue with a lunatic.If the military bill is designed to defeat the plain provisions of the Constitution, by placing some other officer than the Governor in command of the military forces of the State, and requiring somebody else besides him to suppress insurrection and repel invasion, and there is no other mode of defeating it than the one adopted, of withdrawing from the House, the act of doing so, however repulsive to our feelings uoder ordinary circumstances, is clearly and manifestly right. Let us see whether that is its object, by a brief examination of its details.It provides that, in case of any resistance to the executioo of the laws of the State, the militia shall be called out by the warrant of a Judge, Mayor of a city or Justice of the Peace, whose authority has been defied, and that the warrant shall be served on the military commander most convenient to the place of resistance, or upon a Brigadier General, the Major General, or the Governor. This provision has most graciously embraced the Governor, hut it has placed him last on the list, because it evidently was designed to consid* er him the least amongst the public functionaries enumerated. The Constitution says that whenever the militia is called out it shall he by the Governor, hut this bill rovides that it may be done by a Judge, ayor or Justice of the Peace, and that the Governor shall have nothing to do with it, noless the Jadge, Mayor or Justice of the Peace whose authority has been defied shall, by serving a warrant upon himv command him to do so. It places (be Governor in complete subordination . to every Judge, Mayor or Justice of the Peace in the State, and completely degrades the office. It gives to each one of these officers power to inaugurate a domestic war at his pleasure, upon any portion of the people of the State, and to oarry it on by his own authority. It makes the officer, whether Judge* Mayor or Justice ofthe Peace, the commander-in-chief of the forces called out, by requiring the military commander, or the Brigadier General, or the Major General, or the Governor, accordingly as be shall direct his warrant, tobe subject to his directions. These are its words: “At such time, the officer commending the forces so celled out shall be subject to the directions of the civil officer requiring his aid.” And then it extends its provisions to the suppression ofbicemofecccFw]yhiscniItaidlt;inwhiwhtlIE0lt;dViItWwontlu•uaa;a!qbvctltlv4dJa«=t!VaIoar1tFt£sIc(0IphcttcCii(cIttIIittr80r11if«rebellion, repelliog invasion aod preserving order, all of wbion is to be done, withoutiIreference to the Governor, “by the appro-- e . « mm _ _ _ ee a a iJ'V.i Ifprists officers,” or by 4Hhe Major General. That is, itf ____, provide* that these things shallnoti* doek by the Governor, but bybodj ®lt;*witbeu»4»»« ih#1IXT]I*l-V.* rrI'V. **» •* **
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Connersville Weekly Times
Connersville, Indiana, US
Thu, Mar 19, 1863
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