CONGRESS, CONFEDERATE. 



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to assume control of all military operations 

 between the Confederate States and foreign 

 powers, 130 ; appropriation made, 132 ; au- 

 thorizes 100,000 men to be raised, 133 ; ad- 

 journs to meet at Richmond, 140 ; second ses- 

 sion convenes, 141 ; authorizes enlistments in 

 Kentucky, 399. 



II. Its meeting and organization under the 

 permanent Constitution, 256 ; members, 256, 

 257 ; address of the Speaker of the House, 257 ; 

 votes cast for the President, 258; resolution 

 offered in the House to abandon the defensive 

 policy in the conduct of the war, 258 ; objected 

 to as impeaching the Administration, 258 ; no 

 people in a revolution ever adopted a defensive 

 policy, 258; the generals have had the most 

 liberal discretion, and the President not re- 

 sponsible, 259 ; Hannibal and the philosopher, 

 259 ; no disrespect intended, 259 ; more of an 

 aggressive policy should have been adopted, 

 259; resolution laid on the table, 259; bill 

 passed directing military commanders to destroy 

 cotton, etc., 259 ; joint resolution relative to 

 the war with the United States, 260 ; compen- 

 sation of members, 260 ; resolution adopted to 

 entertain no peace propositions excluding any 

 portion of the soil of any Confederate State, 

 260 ; suspension of Generals Floyd and Pillow, 

 260 ; a bill to curtail the cotton crop consid- 

 ered, 260 ; unconstitutional, 260 ; Congress 

 cannot create a crime, 261 ; allowing cotton to 

 fall into the hands of the enemy was giving 

 him comfort, 261 ; cultivation of cotton should 

 not be abandoned, 261 ; Congress no power to 

 interfere with the internal affairs of the States, 

 261 ; the idea that cotton is king long since 

 abandoned, 261 ; England will never interfere, 

 261; bill lost, 262; report on the surrender 

 of Roanoke Island, 262 ; moneys transferred 

 to the Confederate States Government by the 

 several States, 262 ; appropriations for the 

 Navy Department, 262 ; resolutions relative to 

 the battle of Shiloh, 262 ; Treasury notes less 

 than $5 authorized, 262 ; increase of clerks in 

 the departments, 263 ; adjournment to August 

 18th, second session convened, 263 ; bills in- 

 troduced, 263 ; remarks on the conscription 

 act, 263 ; resolution to transact business with 

 open doors rejected, 264; resolutions favoring 

 an aggressive war, 264 ; also favoring a proc- 

 lamation to the people of the Northwestern 

 States, 264 ; vote of thanks to the commander 

 at Drury's Bluff, 264; message from Presi- 



dent Davis with dispatches from General Lee, 

 264 ; vote of thanks to General Lee on crossing 

 the Potomac, 265 ; amendment proposed, 265 ; 

 Congress not prepared to invite the Govern- 

 ment to invade the enemy's country, 265 ; after 

 we have crossed the border we are told we 

 ought to hesitate, 265 ; could not take the re- 

 sponsibility of advising an advance into Penn- 

 sylvania, 265 ; what the people wanted was an 

 aggressive war, 265 ; could the army safely go 

 into the heart of the North ? 265 ; it is not a 

 war of conquest, but of independence, 265 ; 

 amendment lost, 265 ; further debate on the 

 resolutions, 266 ; passed, 266 ; an additional 

 resolution proposed as not intended to indicate 

 a policy for the President, 266 ; reports of the 

 committee on the opening of Southern markets 

 to the Northwestern States, 267; majority re- 

 port in favor, minority opposed, 267; bill to 

 provide further for the public defence passed, 

 267; motion to reconsider, 267; remarks on 

 the difficulties between the Government and 

 the States relative to conscription, 268 ; retali- 

 atory measures considered, 268 ; report of a 

 committee with a bill, 269 ; minority report, 

 269; remarks on President Lincoln's proc- 

 lamation, 269 ; another bill proposed, 269 ; 

 whole matter disposed of, by a resolution to 

 sustain the President, 270; sequestration bill 

 considered, 270 ; is the bill constitutional ? 

 270 ; this is no civil war, but a war of some 

 sovereign States against others, 270 ; no such 

 thing as a citizen of the Confederate States, , 

 270 ; people a right to choose their own gov- 

 ernment, 270; you cannot hang a man as a 

 traitor to a government that has been made 

 without his consent, 270 ; further debate, 271- 

 273 ; bill laid on the table, 273 ; appropriations, 

 274 ; issue of copper coin authorized, 274. 



III. List of members, 226 ; resolutions on 

 the conduct of the war and the Emancipation 

 Proclamation, 226 ; retaliatory measures sug- 

 gested, 226 ; the Government should take the 

 responsibility, 226 ; resolution offered in the 

 Senate, 227; joint resolutions on retaliation, 

 227; free navigation of the Mississippi, 227; 

 bills introduced, 227; tax law, 227; tax on 

 farmers, 228 ; new flag, 228 ; impressment act, 

 228 ; resolutions relative to army substitutes, 

 228 ; do. to the currency, 228 ; do. on prison- 

 ers, 228 ; acts of officers, 229 ; resolutions rela- 

 tive to declaring all persons in the army, 229 ; 

 do. relative to the issue of bonds, 229 ; various 



