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could be had on any reasonable terms, 295; 

 after the military power is suppressed, call 

 upon the people to reorganize in their own 

 way, subject to the conditions we think essential 

 to permanent peace, 296 ; three modes indicated, 

 296 ; prohibit slavery by the Constitution, 296 ; 

 plan of the President, 296 ; proposition of the 

 present bill, 297 ; extraordinary theories evoked 

 on the relations of the States to the Federal 

 Government, 297; these acts of secession are 

 either valid or invalid, 297; they cannot be in- 

 valid to destroy the Union, and valid to destroy 

 the State governments, 297; if these States 

 are out of the Union, their governments are 

 in force until changed, 298; the foundation 

 corner of the Confederation, 298 ; bill passed, 

 298 ; yeas and nays, 298. 



In the Senate, the bill considered, 299; 

 amendment offered, 299 ; what do you propose 

 to do with these seceded States with regard to 

 their coming back ? 299 ; the amendment de- 

 clares they shall not come in until Congress 

 provides some principle for their admission, 

 299 ; what relation do these seceded States 

 now hold ? 300 ; duty to guarantee a republi- 

 can form of government, 300 ; it is said the 

 States may lose their organizative rights and 

 corporate capacity by rebellion, 300 ; features 

 of this bill, 300 ; there was a time when a pre- 

 cedent like this would have been deemed uncon- 

 stitutional, 301 ; the amendment accomplishes 

 nothing, 301 ; this bill accomplishes the work 

 which the traitor began, 301 ; what authority 

 has Congress to exercise this power ? 302 ; ex- 

 citement produced by the proposition to re- 

 strict territorial self-government, 302 ; no State 

 has a republican form of government when 

 that .government is prescribed to them by 

 another outside their limits, 302 ; where does 

 Congress derive the power to govern a State 

 by a Federal appointee? 302; what does the 

 word guarantee mean? 303 ; does it authorize 

 this Union to set up a government, to create a 

 government, or to make a form of govern- 

 ment? 303; views of the Federalist, 303; if 

 the State government is overthrown, is it not 

 the duty of the Federal Government to re- 

 store ? 304 ; what does this bill propose ? 304 ; 

 "Washington ever maintained the supremacy of 

 the civil power, 304 ; where do we derive the 

 power to reconstruct this Union ? 305 ; the ex- 

 istence of the institution of slavery in a State, 

 or any other domestic institution, does not 



make the government republican or anti-re- 

 publican in form, 306 ; this bill is not claimed 

 to be a war measure, 306 ; the Government of 

 the United States emanated from the States, 

 306 ; it is a declaration to those States that 

 they are never to be received into the Union, 

 306 ; amendment adopted, 306 ; amendment to 

 adopt the emancipation proclamation offered, 

 306; lost, 306; bill passed, 306; House non- 

 concur in the amendment, and the Senate re- 

 cede, 307 ; proclamation of President Lincoln, 

 307 ; protest of Messrs. Wade and Davis, 307. 



In the House, a motion to admit a Repre- 

 sentative from Arkansas, 307; facts of the 

 case, 307 ; a question of the recognition or re- 

 fusal to recognize the organization of a State 

 government in Arkansas, 808; is the State 

 government in Arkansas destroyed ? 309 ; a 

 State without a government, 810; Arkansas 

 now under a military governor, 810; is Ar- 

 kansas in or out of the Union? 810; creden- 

 tials referred, 811. 



In the Senate, a motion to admit Senators 

 from Arkansas, 311 ; the decision of this ques- 

 tion rules all the questions of representation in 

 Congress, and the participation of Arkansas in 

 the Presidential election, 811 ; five distinct 

 reasons against the recognition of representa- 

 tion from Arkansas, 311 ; the representation 

 is founded on a minority, 311 ; absurd for each 

 Chamber to determine the question of repre- 

 sentation for itself, 312; authority is in har- 

 mony with reason, 812 ; the Constitution seems 

 to place the question beyond doubt, 312 ; the 

 President's proclamation implies the action of 

 Congress, 312; war power of the President, 

 313 ; in the Missouri case it was conceded that 

 it was not in the power of Congress to annex 

 any such condition to the admission of a State, 

 because it would produce inequality as between 

 States, 313; the war is carried on against the 

 citizens individually of the States, 314; the 

 State of Arkansas is in insurrection, 314 ; post- 

 poned, 314. 



In the House, a joint resolution relative to 

 Mexico, 314. 



In the House, resolutions relative to the 

 enrolment act offered, 315; votes, 315. 



In the Senate, a bill to increase the bounty 

 to volunteers, and the pay of the army, con- 

 sidered, 315 ; the assumption by the authori- 

 ties of the power to give bounties without law, 

 316; the conscription act not a failure, 316; 



