Some apprehension is felt concerning the President's health.
If he were to die, what would be the consequences? I should stand by the
Vice-President, of course, because “it is so nominated in the bond,” and
because I think he would make as efficient an Executive as any other man in the
Confederacy. But others think differently; and there might be trouble.
The President has issued a proclamation, in pursuance of the
act of Congress passed on the 8th instant, commanding all alien enemies to
leave in forty days; and the Secretary of War has indicated Nashville as the
place of exit. This produces but little excitement; except among the Jews, some
of whom are converting their effects into gold and departing.
Col. Bledsoe's ankles arc much too weak for his weighty
body, but he can shuffle along quite briskly when in pursuit of a refractory clerk;
and when he catches him, if he resists, the colonel is sure to leave him.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 72-3
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