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Conscription The word conscription carries a poignant and very negative charge. It conjures up images of young men forced away from home to serve in the armed forces of a failing world power in the four corners of its washed-out empire. Conscription, being wholly subversive of freedom, is alien and odious to a free people. It involves the degradation of human personality, and the obliteration of liberty. Barrack life, military drill, blind obedience to commands, breakage of the human spirit, and deliberate training for slaughter undermine respect for the individual, for democracy and human life. It is debasing human dignity to force men to give up their potentially happy life, or to inflict death against their will, or without conviction as to the justice of their action. Unpopular, unwieldy, and unfair, conscription raised more discontent than it did soldiers. Especially considering the first Confederate conscription law applied to men...

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