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The Daily Dispatch: June 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 9 (search)
es to the Confederate Government and to the Government itself. Already, it is said, elections for officers are being held by Virginia troops, under the strange hallucination that the appointing power conferred on the President by the Constitution has been, by some means or other, transferred to "the majority," thus introducing a radical Democracy into the military establishment ! This the Congress had no power to do, and it was not in contemplation. It was merely meant, by the act of May 7th, to permit companies tendering for the war to elect company officers. But even this act was superseded by the subsequent one from which we have made quotations; and those who presumes that military officers are to be elected like civil officers, have conceived a mistaken view of the subject. Nevertheless, the preference of companies, when made manifest to the Government, is, no doubt, always respected as a recommendation But it ought to be distinctly understood that the power has not been,