G. V. Montgomery Quotes
The bottom line is that we have a more representative sample of middle America in the volunteer force in 1990 than can be achieved in any draft.
G. V. (Sonny) Montgomery, U. S. Congressman (Democrat, MS), The Washington Post, December 4, 1990
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This principle became the Civil War Draft. Ironically, when the draft was legislated by Congress, there were relatively few men drafted as enlistments increased. See {621897} .
This was the inception of the Civil War draft.
Monroe was then Secretary of State and the U. S. was at war.
What was absurd about this statement is that tens of thousands of men were drafted during the Vietnam war unless they had connections or were not physically fit. The implication that minority youth who did volunteer were not “patriotic” like he was became an insult to many Americans. The Congressman was a “Chicken Hawk”—a politician very aggressive about sending our military into combat, yet who never served in the military themselves. Later, DeLay was convicted and sentenced to jail for money laundering and illegally spending and raising campaign funds. He was also reprimanded by the House Ethics Committee for unethical methods of fund raising for other earlier actions.
This Biblical quotation has been used to justify and legitimize military conscription.
The Roman Senate elected two Counsels who were the Executive of the State. Gaius Marius was elected Counsel 7 times making him perhaps the most popular politician of the ancient world. Prior to his law, only Roman men who owned sufficient land could join the army.
Just 7 months earlier the King had made a direct appeal to the people for enlistment in the military—See {587166}. The response was very good, but the First World War developed in such a way that huge manpower resources were needed and the King had to reluctantly assent to a military draft.
The founder was Charles E. Coughlin, 1891-1979, a demagogic Catholic Priest who drafted the principles and invited others to join him. Hundreds of thousands did in this organization which began in idealism, and ended in scandal and hate mongering, so much so that Father Coughlin was ordered off the radio and out of politics by the Catholic Church. The National Union in 1936 had morphed into the Union Party which ran Presidential candidates in the 1936 election. In this principle there were two purposes: First to have the wealthy sacrifice something in time of war. Historically wealth could keep a man from the draft if he so wanted. Second, when the company went to war the argument went it was the rich who could profit who had more political influence and could make the war. This way, they would pay a high price and might oppose war. Many of Coughlin’s followers were pro-German and wanted to keep the country out of the European war.
Gillespie V. "Sonny" Montgomery was an American politician from Mississippi who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1967 to 1997. He was also a retired major general of the Mississippi National Guard who served during World War II.
