Members of Congress are coming to my office every day,
getting passports for their constituents. Those I have seen (Senator Brown, of
Mississippi, among the rest) express a purpose not to renew the act, to expire
on the 18th September, authorizing martial law.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 150
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