The President's message was sent to Congress to-day. I was
not present, but my son Custis, who heard it read, says the President dwells
largely on the conduct of foreign powers. To diminish the currency, he
recommends compulsory funding and large taxation, and some process of
diminishing the volume of Treasury notes. In other words, a suspension of
such clauses of the Constitution as stand in the way of a successful
prosecution of the war. He suggests the repeal of the Substitute law, and a
modification of the Exemption act, etc. To-morrow I shall read it myself.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 2, p.
112
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