90 CONGRESS, CONFEDERATE. 



CONGRESS, UNITED STATES. 



other resolutions, 229 ; remarks on impress- 

 ment of provisions, 230 ; bill to continue all 

 troops in service, 230 ; substitutes, 230 ; act 

 relative to exemptions, 230 ; use of negroes, 

 230 ; debate relative to substitutes in the army, 

 231 ; conscription act finally adopted, 232. 



IV. Session in November, 1863, 206 ; state 

 of the country considered, 206 ; greatest needs 

 to strengthen the army and improve the cur- 

 rency, 206 ; shall the Confederacy stand or 

 fall?" 206; every able-bodied man should be 

 declared in the military service, 206 ; repeal all 

 laws granting exemptions, 206; why are the 

 streets of Richmond crowded with young men ? 

 206 ; the presence of foreigners, 207 ; will 

 Congress arouse from its lethargy ? 207 ; stop 

 tinkering with the currency, 207 ; debt grow- 

 ing frightful, 207 ; make Treasury notes a legal 

 tender, 207. 



Bill to abolish exemptions considered, 207 ; 

 400,000 men on the rolls, but how many in the 

 army ? 207 ; unable to feed those in the field, 

 207 ; manufactures as necessary as agriculture, 

 208; must have more men in the field, 208; 

 the cry of scarcity a stratagem, 208 ; the State 

 of Virginia cannot stand another draft, 208 ; 

 our policy to protract the war, 208; weak 

 point of the enemy is his finances, 208 ; most 

 certain way to feed the army is to increase 

 the numbers in the field, 209; bill passed, 

 209. 



In the House, the employment of free ne- 

 groes and slaves, under certain circumstances, 

 considered, 209; bring 40,000 men into the 

 field without diminishing our resources, 209 ; 

 unjust discrimination against the poorer white 

 classes, 209; unconstitutional, 209; further 

 debate, 210 ; bill passed, 210. 



Joint resolutions of both Houses of Congress, 

 210; manifesto of Congress relative to the ex- 

 isting war, 210. 



Session of Congress in May, 211; list of 

 members, 211 ; explanation in the House rela- 

 tive to public sentiment in North Carolina, 

 211 ; further explanation, 212 ; act to suspend 

 the privilege of habeas corpus, 212 ; its effect, 

 212 ; preamble and resolutions relative to peace 

 submitted, 213 ; discussion, 213 ; substitute for 

 the resolutions offered, 214; substitute to the 

 substitute offered, 214 ; the Government should 

 propose terms of peace, 215 ; would they be 

 received by the United States? 215 ; it was in- 

 timated they would "be received, 215 ; resolu- 



tions offered relative to prosecuting the war to 

 independence, 215. 



The employment of slaves in the army, 216 ; 

 not needed, 216; are we approximating ex- 

 haustion? 216; the appeal to African troops 

 to save us, 216; how is it proposed to fight 

 negro troops? 217; will the negro fight well 

 enough to resist the Yankee? 217; the em- 

 ployment of negroes a confession of weakness, 

 217; bill to arm the slaves, 217; passage in 

 the House, 217 ; lost in the Senate, 217 ; action 

 of the Virginia Legislature, 217; bill reconsid- 

 ered in the Senate, 217; amended, 218; vote 

 on its passage, 218; we thought we had got 

 rid forever of the slavery agitation, 218; a 

 confession of despair and an abandonment of 

 the ground of secession, 218; if we are right 

 in passing this measure we were wrong in de- 

 nying to the old Government the right to in- 

 terfere, 218; necessity of freeing the negroes 

 if they were made soldiers, 218 ; no consider- 

 able body could be raised in the States without 

 stripping the country of the labor necessary to 

 produce food, 218 ; as to the expediency it is 

 worse than a question of principle, 218. 



V. (See Confederate States.) 



CONGRESS, LMEILMTIOML. XIV. In Bel- 

 gium, 90. 



CONGRESS, UNITED STATES. I. Convenes 

 December 8, 1860, 166; its members, 166; 

 cause of trouble to the country, 166, 167; bet- 

 ter look the matter in the face, 167; this state 

 of affairs looks to two things, 167 ; all that is 

 asked is, to be allowed to depart in peace, 168 ; 

 repeal all the personal liberty laws, and it will 

 not stop this revolution, 168; we intend to 

 leave this Union then bring us back, 168; 

 Delaware the first to adopt the Constitution, 

 and will be the last to do any act for separa- 

 tion, 168; the portion of the message on the 

 state of the country referred to a committee of 

 thirteen in the Senate, 168; object, 168; the 

 country will go safely through the crisis, 168 ; 

 we should look to our country, not to our par- 

 ty, in the consequences of our action, 168; 

 sectional hostility substituted for fraternity, 

 169;. where is the remedy? 169; the only 

 point that remains for difference, 169 ; first 

 thing to be done, 169; the crisis can be met 

 only in one way, 169 ; nothing which cannot 

 be redressed promptly and in the most effica- 

 cious manner, 170; a war of sentiment and 

 opinion by one form of society against an- 



