The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 4, Volume 3. Page: 70
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CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.
declared by the Constitution to be a proper case for the exercise of
this power does not exist in our country now, when can it ever be
expected to arise ? It is idle to appeal against it to the history of
the old Union. That history contains no parallel case. England,
whose reverence for the great bill of right is at least as strong as our
own, and the stability of whose institutions is the admiration of the
world, has repeatedly within the last hundred years resorted to this
rem 3dy when only threatened with invasion. It may occasion some
clamor, but this will proceed chiefly from the men who have already
been too long the active agents of evil. Loyal citizens will not feel
danger, and the disloyal must be made to fear it. The very existence
of extraordinary powers often renders their exercise unnecessary.
To temporize with disloyalty in the midst of war is but to quicken it
to the growth of treason. I therefore respectfully recommend that
the privilege of the corpus be suspended.
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
AN ACT to change the time for the assembling of Congress for its next regular
session.
The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That
the Congress of the Confederate States of America, for its next reg-
ular session, shall assemble the first Monday in May, anno Domini
eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and not the first Monday of Decem-
ber, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.
Approved February 3, 1864.
AN ACT to authorize the President to assign judges of military courts from one
court to another.
The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That
the President be, and he is hereby, authorized, at any time, to assign
judges from one military court to another as in his judgment the
service may require.
SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That this act take effect and be in
force from and after its passage.
Approved February 3, 1864.
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA, WAR DEPARTMENT,
Richmond, Va., February 3, 1864.
Hon. J. H. REAGAN,
Postmaster- General :
SIR: In compliance with my letter of the 29th ultimo,* I have the
honor to communicate the result of the inquiry into the action of this
Department on your letters of the 19th of October and 17th of Novem-
ber, 1863, and January 7, 1864.
The last, in regard to the complaint of the postmaster at Ivor of
being turned out of his office, and its being appropriated to other
uses by military authority, has been referred to the proper officers for
inquiry and report and has not yet been returned.
*Not found.70
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United States. War Department. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 4, Volume 3., book, 1900; Washington D.C.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth139262/m1/79/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.