Clear and pleasant.
All quiet. No doubt, from the indications, Lincoln has been re-elected.
Now preparations
must be made for the further “conflict of opposing forces." All our
physical power must be exerted, else all is lost.
Mr. Sparrow,
Louisiana, chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs, introduced a measure,
yesterday, in the Senate, which, if consummated, might put all our able-bodied
men in the field. It would equalize prices of the necessaries of life, and
produce a panic among the speculators. I append it. But, probably, the press
will have to be suppressed, “as a war measure,” too, to pass it:
A bill to extend the assessment of prices for the army to all citizens of the Confederate States:
Whereas, the
depreciation of our currency is, in a great measure, produced by the extortion
of those who sell the necessaries of life; and whereas, such depreciation is
ruinous to our Confederacy and to the means of prosecuting the war; therefore
The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, as a necessary war measure, That the prices assessed for the army by
the commissioners of assessment shall be the prices established for all
citizens of the Confederate States; and that any person who shall charge any
price beyond such assessment shall be deemed guilty of a criminal offense, and
be subject to a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars and to imprisonment
not exceeding one year.
We are now tending
rapidly, under fearful exigencies, to the absolutism which, in a republic,
alone can summon the full forces into the field. Power must be concentrated,
and wielded with promptitude and precision, else we shall fail to achieve our
independence. All obstructions in the way of necessary war measures must be
speedily removed, or the finances, and the war itself, will speedily come to an
ignominious end.
The Secretary
recommends, and the President orders, that Gen. Bragg be assigned to the
command of North Carolina. The President yields; Bragg is “given up."
The Richmond Enquirer is
out, to-day, in an article advocating the employment of 250,000 negroes in our
army.
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