NP, RD 4/6/1864

From the Richmond Dispatch
 
April 6, 1864
 
A Consistent Governor
   The Charleston Courier says no Executive of Georgia ever claimed or exercised such powers as Gov. Brown has done in the very message which so violently impeached the good faith and integrity of the Confederate Administration, he asks to be vested with powers over the property of citizens which were never yet conferred upon a constitutional Chief Magistrate. He asks for power to seize property upon "reasonable ground of law." He wants the power to annul commissions — the power to impress provisions, in cases where the Constitution does not convey it — the power to compel the removal of property, and the power to take possession of and control any of the railroads of the State, with their rolling stock, &c.

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