<emph>Mr. Rogers' Minority Report:</emph> Electronic Edition. Confederate States of America. Congress. House of Representatives. Select Committee on Increase of Military Force. Funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this title. Text scanned (OCR) by Joshua McKim Text encoded by Elizabeth S. Wright and Natalia Smith First edition, 2000 ca. 10K Academic Affairs Library, UNC-CH University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2000.

© This work is the property of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It may be used freely by individuals for research, teaching and personal use as long as this statement of availability is included in the text.

 Mr. Rogers' Minority Report. House of Representatives. 1 p. [Richmond, VA] The House [1865.] Call number 597 Conf. (Rare Book Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

The electronic edition is a part of the UNC-CH digitization project, Documenting the American South.

Any hyphens occurring in line breaks have been removed, and the trailing part of a word has been joined to the preceding line.

All em dashes are encoded as —

Indentation in lines has not been preserved.

Spell-check and verification made against printed text using Author/Editor (SoftQuad) and Microsoft Word spell check programs.

 Library of Congress Subject Headings, 21st edition, 1998 English African Americans -- Confederate States of America. Slaves -- Confederate States of America. Impressment -- Confederate States of America. Confederate States of America. Army -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc. -- Law and legislation. Confederate States of America. Army -- Afro-American troops. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Afro-Americans. 2000-09-01, Celine Noel and Wanda Gunther revised TEIHeader and created catalog record for the electronic edition. 2000-04-20, Natalia Smith, project manager, finished TEI-conformant encoding and final proofing. 2000-04-18, Elizabeth S. Wright finished TEI/SGML encoding 2000-04-06, Joshua McKim finished scanning (OCR) and proofing. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Feb 15, 1865—Ordered to be printed. MR. ROGERS' MINORITY REPORT.

Resolved, As the sense of this House, that if proper and efficient means be resorted to, to bring back to the army absentees and deserters, and the exemption laws be so modified as to place in the military service the many thousands of able bodied young men, exempt under existing laws, but whose places at home may be supplied by those exempt from physical causes or from age, there is nothing in the present aspect of our military affairs to justify the hazardous experiment of placing slaves in our armies as soldiers.

Resolved 2d. That as a dernier resort, should it become apparent that the material for soldiers of our white population has been exhausted, and our armies inadequate to meet and repel the enemy, we will not hesitate to resort to the use of slaves in our armies in any capacity in which they may be made serviceable.

Resolved 3d. That the doctrine of emancipation as a reward for the services of slaves employed in the army, is antagonistic to the spirit of our institutions, and could effect no permanent good, but would inevitably entail upon the country great present and greater future evil.