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CONGRESS, UNITED STATES (1862). 



eminent depends upon its successful finance, 

 321 ; we are to conform our action to the Con- 

 stitution of the country as it is, 322 ; what is 

 this legal tender? 322; what power in the 

 Constitution ? 322 ; to coin money, 322 ; regu- 

 late commerce, 322 ; imperative necessity brings 

 out the latent powers of the Constitution, 323 ; 

 is this measure necessary to suppress the ene- 

 my ? 323 ; bill passed the House, 324 ; vote, 

 324; in the Senate the bill considered, 324; 

 legal tender constitutional, 324 ; .obligation of 

 an oath to support the Constitution, 324; pro- 

 posed 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, 325 ; those who choose 

 may exercise their own judgments on the con- 

 stitutionality of the measure, 326 ; a palpable 

 violation of the Constitution, 326 ; Constitu- 

 tion silent, 326 ; if the Constitution has failed 

 to speak, Congress has not, 326; bill passed, 

 327. 



Bill to authorize the President to take pos- 

 session of railroads and telegraph-lines, 327; 

 its object, 327 ; where the judiciary cease the 

 military begin to operate, 328; an extraordi- 

 nary bill, 328 ; where do you get authority to 

 subject civil employes to the articles of war ? 

 328 ; an unauthorized power, 328 ; what is the 

 whole object of the bill? 328; the power to do 

 these things exists, 328; the war power is 

 vested in Congress, not in the President, 328 ; 

 without our consent the President cannot ex- 

 ercise what powers he pleases in the conduct 

 of the war, 329; extending martial law over 

 railroads, 329 ; the first step which costs, 329 ; 

 the doctrine of State necessity at all times dan- 

 gerous, 330 ; bill passed, 330. 



Resolutions for the expulsion of the Sena- 

 tors from Missouri, 330 ; report on, 331. 



Resolution for the expulsion of Senator 

 Bright, of Indiana, 331; debate, 331, 332; 

 passed, 332. 



Bill to prohibit slavery in the Territories 

 considered, 332 ; amendment offered, 333 ; ef- 

 fects of emancipation in the British West 

 Indies, 333 ; what involved in the negro ques- 

 tion, 334 ; this bill a part of a series of meas- 

 ures already initiated, 334 ; Congress has no 

 power to emancipate 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 Ad- 

 ministration on the objects of the war, 335 ; 

 have not the American people the right to re- 

 lieve 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, 837; 

 has slavery a national existence at the capital ? 

 337; shall money be paid for its abolition? 

 337; examination of the constitutional ques- 

 tion, 338 ; it is denied that property can exist 

 in a human being, 338 ; slavery exists by the 

 law of nations, 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 de- 

 clared 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, 343; inexpediency 

 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 United States and the territory once occu- 

 pied by certain States, 845 ; other resolutions 

 on the same subject, 346. 



Resolution relative to emancipation with 

 compensation, 346 ; where is the power in the 

 Constitution to appropriate money for this 

 purpose ? 346 ; too late to discuss that question, 

 347; an olive-branch of peace, harmony, and 

 good faith, 347 ; simply a declaration of opin- 

 ion, 347 ; amendment offered, 348 ; the propo- 

 sition of the President promises nothing, 348 ; 

 is this power granted ? 349 ; vote on the reso- 

 lution, 349. 



Bill relative to confiscation considered, 349 ; 

 intended to operate on property, 349 ; compe- 

 tent for Congress to prescribe punishment, 

 349 ; further provisions and objects of the bill, 

 350 ; the right of confiscation relative to slaves, 

 351 ; further provisions of the bill, 351 ; what 

 constitutional power to transport, colonize, 

 and settle emancipated negroes, 351 ; 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 revo- 

 lution? 352; this bill would liberate three 



