CONGRESS, UNITED STATES (1861). 



stances, 230 ; those who propose to maintain 

 the Union by force are disunionists, 230 ; 

 efforts to avert the difficulty, 231 ; what is the 

 excuse for this violation of the Constitution ? 

 necessity, 231 ; the doctrine of necessity de- 

 nied, 231 ; what has the President done ? 232 ; 

 who is to judge ? 232 ; the line of demarkation 

 in indorsing the conduct of the President, 

 232 ; the increase of the army, 232 ; not dis- 

 posed to say the Administration has unlimited 

 power, 233 ; this joint resolution of not much 

 importance, 233; the Senate does not intend 

 to pass the resolution, 234 ; the President has 

 no power to suspend the writ of habeas corpus, 

 234 ; resolution to expel certain Senators of- 

 fered, 234 ; is a Senator to be condemned in- 

 dividually for the action of his State? 234; 

 desirable to deny on this floor the right of any 

 State to secede, 234 ; expulsion implies turpi- 

 tude, 235 ; resolution passed, 235. 



Senators from "Western Virginia, their cre- 

 dentials presented, 235 ; involves grave ques- 

 tions, 235 ; you have no authority to create a 

 new State, 235 ; the certificates, 235 ; an 

 abandonment of the whole form of your gov- 

 ernment, 235 ; it is because we will not recog- 

 nize insurrection in a State that we admit these 

 men, 235 ; this proceeding is an overthrow of 

 the Constitution, 236. 



Amendment offered to the army bill, 236 ; 

 the purpose of this war is to maintain the na- 

 tional honor, 236 ; defend the national prop- 

 erty and uphold the flag, 236 ; to preserve the 

 Union, 236 ; declarations of Senators, 236 ; 

 rather than let the Government perish let 

 slavery perish, 236 ; the institution of slavery 

 will not survive the march of the Union armies 

 in any State, 236 ; this is no war of subjugation, 

 236 ; if it is not a war of subjugation, what is 

 it? 237; if the issue is the Government or 

 slavery, then let slavery go down, 237 ; the in- 

 stitution of slavery did not of necessity pro- 

 duce this rebellion, 237; is commerce to be 

 destroyed because a tariff is made ? 237 ; what 

 right has any Senator to go into my State and 

 thrust himself between me and my property ? 

 237; what would be thought if you were to 

 march an army against New York to despoil 

 the people of their houses and their goods ? 

 238 ; amendment rejected, 238. 



Conduct of the war, 238; increase of the 

 army necessary, 238; what is the clamor about 

 the increase of the regular army, 239; state 



of the army when secession commenced, 239 ; 

 this Government rests for its support on the 

 consent of the governed, 239 ; men and money 

 may desolate but cannot bring peace, 239 ; 

 this is not a war of conquest, 239 ; this Gov- 

 ernment will be preserved and the gallows will 

 eventually perform its office, 240 ; what is 

 your country worth when the finale comes ? 

 240; if there is no other way to quell this re- 

 bellion we will make a solitude and call it 

 peace, 240 ; not vote more men and money 

 than the Administration asks, 240; one hun- 

 dred thousand men entirely sufficient to re- 

 store the Constitution, 240; may it not be 

 necessary to leave the track of the chariot- 

 wheels of war so deep in the Southern soil 

 that a century may not obliterate it? 241; 

 amendment offered, 241 ; in the Senate resolu- 

 tion on the conduct of the war offered, 241 ; 

 the war prosecuted for the purpose of the sub- 

 jugation of rebels and traitors, 241 ; the resolu- 

 tion simply says that we are not waging a war 

 for the subjugation of States, 241 ; we have a 

 purpose to defend the Constitution and the 

 laws of the country, 242; a fear exists that 

 the design of this war is subjugation, 242 ; 

 such not its purpose, 242 ; Congress no right 

 to interfere with slavery in the States, 242 ; 

 this war is prosecuted for purposes of subju- 

 gation, 243 ; the war is prosecuted for the pur- 

 pose of subduing the disunionists of the South- 

 ern States, 243 ; what did the minority de- 

 mand ? 243. 



In the House, resolutions relative to the war 

 offered, 244; appropriation to pay the police 

 force of Baltimore considered, 244 ; by ratify- 

 ing the acts of this Administration you are 

 writing the blackest pages in the history of 

 this country, 244; division of the Democratic 

 party at Charleston and Baltimore brought 

 the existing calamity upon the Union, 245 ; 

 the Douglas party furnished you one-half of 

 your entire army, 245; who forced General 

 Scott into the battle at Bull Run ? 245 ; state- 

 ment of General Scott respecting the battle, 

 246 ; discussion of the battle, 246. 



Confiscation bill in the Senate, 246 ; its feat- 

 ures, 247; fourth section of the bill, 247; 

 under some contingencies the slave becomes 

 entitled to his freedom, 247 ; it amounts to a 

 wholesale emancipation, 247; limitations of 

 the bill, 247 ; you place one species of prop- 

 erty on a different footing from another, 248 ; 



