The Examiner to-day discovers that if the President's
project of enrolling all men, and detailing for civil pursuits such as the
Executive may designate, be adopted, that he will then be constituted a Dictator—the
best thing, possibly, that could happen in the opinion of many; though the Examiner
don't think so. It is probable the President will have what he wants.
Per contra, the proposition of Senator Johnson, of
Arkansas, requiring members of the cabinet to be renominated at the expiration
of every two years, if passed, would be a virtual seizure of Executive powers
by that body. But it won't pass.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 2, p.
116
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