INDEX OF CONTENTS. 





paper currency, 818 ; Congress has the power to declare 

 what shall be a legal tender. 319; point out the words in 

 the Constitution, 319; Congress has not the power to 

 debase coin, 320 ; three propositions the sum of the argu- 

 ment, 321 ; existence of the Government depends upon 

 its successful finance, 821 ; we are to conform our action 

 to the Constitution of the country as it is, 322 ; what is 

 this legal tender? 322; what power in the Constitution, 

 822; to coin money, 822; regulate commerce, 322 ; im- 

 perative necessity brings out the latent powers of the 

 Constitution, 323 ; is this measure necessary to suppress 

 the enemy, 323; bill passed the House, 324; vote, 324; 

 in the Senate the bill considered, 324 ; legal tender con- 

 stitutional, 804 ; obligation of an oath to support the 

 constitution, 324 ; proposed to make these notes a legal 

 tender to pay private debts, 324; who compelled to take 

 this money, 325; said to be incidental to a great variety 

 of powers, 825 ; those who choose may exercise their 

 own judgments on the constitutionality of the measure, 

 826 ; a palpable violation of the Constitution, 826 ; Con- 

 stitution silent, 326 ; if the Constitution has failed to 

 speak Congress has not, 326 ; bill passed, 327. 



Bill to authorize the President to take possession of 

 railroads and telegraph lines, 327; its object, 327; where 

 the judiciary cease the military begin to operate, 828; 

 an extraordinary bill, 323; where do you get authority 

 to subject civil employes to the articles of war, 32S; an 

 unauthorized power, 328; what is the whole object of 

 the bill ? 328 ; the power to do these things exists, 32S ! 

 the war power is vested in Congress, not in the Presi- 

 dent, 328; without our assent the President cannot 

 exercise what powers he pleases in the conduct of the 

 war, 329; extending martial law over railroads, 329; tho 

 first step which costs, 329, the doctrine of state neces- 

 sity at all times dangerous, 330 ; bill passed, 330. 



Resolutions for the expulsion of the Senators from 

 Missouri, 330; report on, 831. 



Resolution for the expulsion of Senator Bright of In- 

 diana, 331 ; debate, 331, 332; passed, 332. 



Bill to prohibit slavery in the Territories considered, 

 332 ; amendment offered, 333 ; effects of emancipation in 

 the British West Indies, 333 ; what involved in the ne- 

 gro question, 334; this bill a part of a series of measures 

 already initiated, 334; Congress has no power to eman 

 cipate a slave anywhere, 335 ; all the rights secured by 

 the Constitution to the citizen exist in the District of 

 Columbia as elsewhere, 335 ; on what terms can private 

 property be taken, 335; statements of the Administra- 

 tion on the objects of the war, 335 : have not the Ameri- 

 can people the right to relieve themselves from the 

 guilt of upholding slavery, 336 , protest in the name of 

 Maryland, 336; views of Henry Clay, 336; cannot place 

 expediency in the scale against justice, 337; has slavery 

 a national existence at the capital? 387; shall money be 

 paid for its abolition ? 337 ; examination of the constitu- 

 tional question, 333; it is denied that property can exist 

 in a human being, 338 ; slavery exists by the law of na- 

 tions, 339 ; the slave trade cannot be restricted except 

 by positive legislation, 340 ; slave trade would have been 

 a legitimate trade to the citizens if the Government had 

 not declared it piracy, 340; opinions of the Supreme 

 Court, 340, 341 ; the Constitution treats the slaves as 

 persons as well as property, 342 ; property in a horse has 

 its origin in force, 342 ; vote on the question, 843 ; inex- 

 pediency of the measure, 343 ; is not this the commence- 

 ment of a great system? 344; vote on the bill in the 

 House, 344 ; message of the President on the bill, 345. 



Resolutions declaring the relations between the Unit- 

 ed States and the territory once occupied by certain 

 States, 345 ; other resolutions on the same subject, 346. 



Resolution relative to emancipation with compenu- 

 tion, 340; where is the power in V. . n to ap- 



propriate money for this purpose ? 846 ; too late to dU- 

 cuss that question, 347 ; an olive branch of peace, har- 

 mony, and good faith, 347; simply a declaration of 

 opinion, 347; amendment om red, :>, ; tho proposition 

 of the President promises nothing, 848 ; Is this power 

 granted ? 349; vote on tho resolution, 349. 



Bill relative to confiscation considered, 349; intended 

 to operate on property, 349 ; competent for Congress to 

 prescribe punishment, 849 ; further provision* and ob- 

 jects of the bill, 350; the right of confiscation relative to 

 slaves, 351 ; further provisions of the bill, 851 ; what 

 constitutional power to transport, colonize, and settle 

 emancipated negroes, 851 ; what is to become of the 

 Union men of the South with millions of freed slaves 

 left to roam at large, 351 ; this measure can never secure 

 peace, 352 ; shall we stand or fall by the Constitution or 

 leave it and adventure on the wide sea of revolution? 

 852; this bill would liberate three million slaves at 

 a blow, 352 ; eflect upon the war, 853 ; pass this bill and 

 all that is left of the Constitution is not worth much, 

 353 ; the supreme power of conducting war is in Con- 

 gress, 353; no limit to the power of Congress, 853 ; it 

 leaves to the citizens of the seceded States the owner- 

 ship of nothing, 354; want of power, 354; Congress can- 

 not interfere with slavery in the States, 855; wars 

 should not be a revengeful policy, 855 ; ends for which 

 the Constitution was made, 356 ; two classes of persons 

 whose property is forfeited, 356 ; it will cut off the great 

 market of tho free States, 856; depriving a person 

 of his property without process of law, 857; Congress no 

 right to interfere with slavery in a State, 357; interfer- 

 ing with plighted iaith, 353 ; subject referred to a select 

 committee, 858 ; report, 858 ; the bill reported unconsti- 

 tutional, 358 ; moved to except slaves, 353 ; liberation is 

 not confiscation, 353 ; the term forfeiture, 359 ; a substi- 

 tute, 859; votes on the amendments, 360; motion to 

 strike out the section authorizing the President to issue 

 a proclamation of emancipation, 860 ; Congress no power 

 to authorize him, 360; inexpedient, 361 ; contest in the 

 Senate on the bill, 362; the debate in the House, 362. 

 the Constitution not to be trampled on, 362 ; the bills 

 examined under the law of nations and the Constitution, 

 362,863,864,365; contest in the Senate renewed, 866; 

 not one single word or letter in the Constitution which 

 gives Congress any power to do an act in the exigency 

 of war, which it canot do in times of peace, 866; the 

 doctrine that would concentrate all power in the Execu- 

 tive most fatal, 367; indifferent whether the Federal or 

 Confederate States triumph, 367 ; the war power of the 

 Government explained, 867, 368; doctrines subversive 

 of every principle of free government, 869 ; authority of 

 the President over the army and navy, 369 ; has Con- 

 gress authority to control or direct the President in the 

 use of the military force, 869; fatal sophistry to deny it, 

 869; manner in which the proceedings of the Senate 

 have been conducted, 870 ; vote on the bill, 870 ; a sub- 

 stitute moved, 871 ; vote, 871 ; committee of conference, 

 871; subsequent legislation on the measure, 371; amend- 

 ments moved, 872; confiscation and forfeiture, 873, fea- 

 tures of the bill, 373 ; explanatory provision, 374 : adopt- 

 ed, 374; message of the President relative to the bill, 374. 



Acts of a general nature passed, 875 ; number of repre- 

 sentatives in Congress, 875 ; additional article of war, 

 875 ; abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, 

 875 ; department of agriculture, 875 ; homesteads to set- 

 tlers, 875; railroad and telegraph to the Pacific, 875; 

 punishment of polygamy, 875 ; oath to be taken by pub- 

 lic officers, 876. 



