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object to legalize the act of the Government, 

 316; if the draft is not a failure, it is not a 

 success, 317; every appeal to the people a 

 success, 317 ; the continued offer of bounties 

 has had a tendency to diminish the patriotism 

 of the people, 317; the failure of the draft has 

 been owing to the clumsy manner in which it 

 was attempted, 317; every citizen owes to the 

 Government the utmost of his ability, 318 ; 

 the burdens in this war consist in two things, 

 318; the conscription act has done more to 

 raise the sentiment of this nation than any 

 act passed, 318; the enrolment act considered, 

 319; amendments proposed, 319; the commu- 

 tation should be according to the income of a 

 person, 319 ; object to fix a limit to the price 

 of substitutes, 319; infirmities allowed, 320; 

 how the law was executed, 320 ; what is our 

 present legislation on the subject? 320; the 

 people now understand the law, 321 ; a new 

 income-tax proposed, 321 ; other amendments 

 proposed, 321, 322; what is the number of 

 colored troops? 323; fifty thousand enlisted, 

 323 ; States in which colored troops are raised, 

 323, 324 ; what law is there to justify the Gov- 

 ernment in paying any thing to masters for 

 their slaves ? 324 ; a master is to be paid for 

 his property, 324; raising colored troops in 

 Maryland, 325 ; do. in Kentucky and Tennes- 

 see, 325 ; further amendments, 325 ; necessity 

 and propriety of calling colored men into the 

 service, 326. 



In the House, the enrolment act considered, 

 827 ; amendments, 327 ; it was said the laws 

 and constitutions of the border States were to 

 be respected, 327; no constitution or law of 

 any State shall stand between me and what I 

 believe my duty, 327 ; how is just compensa- 

 tion for this private property to be ascertained ? 

 327 ; the question relates to the expediency of 

 taking slaves for military service, 328; what 

 right have you to insist that our slaves in Ken- 

 tucky shall be placed on your enrolment list ? 

 328 ; votes on the amendments, 329 ; effect of 

 the amendments to the act, 329. 



In the Senate, a bill to abolish commutation 

 considered, 330 ; letter from the Secretary of 

 War, 330 ; bill passed both Houses, 330. 



In the House, resolutions on the object and 

 conduct of the war offered and voted on, 330, 

 331, 332, 333, 334; how stands the Union to- 

 day ? 334 ; a brief period of three short years 

 has produced a fearful change in this free, 



happy, and prosperous Government, 335 ; the 

 real friends of the Confederates are in control 

 of this Government, 335 ; the amnesty proc- 

 lamation absurd, 336 ; war is final, eternal 

 separation, 336; the views formerly enter- 

 tained of the coercion of States, 336 ; the Con- 

 federate States are out of the Union, occupy- 

 ing the position of an independent power, 337 ; 

 they have been treated as belligerents, 337 ; 

 the time for the restoration of the Union long 

 since dispelled, 338 ; remarks of Marshal Ney, 

 338 ; how do we stand in the eyes of the civil- 

 ized world to-day? 339; how much better if 

 we had parted in peace with our dissatisfied 

 sisters ! 339 ; better sacrifice nine-tenths of the 

 territory than to destroy our republican form 

 of government, 339 ; the lessons of history are 

 full of warning, 340 ; a common error to sup- 

 pose that to part with our jurisdiction over 

 eleven States involves the destruction of the 

 Government, 340 ; the Union is lost, never to 

 be restored, 340; the idea upon which this 

 war is founded coercion of States leads to 

 despotism, 341 ; do not believe any peace is 

 attainable on the basis of union and recon- 

 struction, 341 ; reminded of a distinguished 

 character in "Paradise Lost," 342 ; a Benedict 

 Arnold proposes to surrender, 342 ; the first 

 time it has been proposed to abandon the war, 

 342 ; the right of revolution, 342 ; where shall 

 the line of division be drawn? 342; secession 

 is the tocsin of eternal war, 343 ; coercion is 

 the basis of every law in the universe, 343 ; 

 never attempted to override the Constitution, 

 343 ; resolution to expel Alexander Long 

 offered, 344; presented as a matter of duty, 

 344; giving aid and encouragement to the 

 enemy, 344; is this bold avowal to go unre- 

 buked? 345; its effect abroad, 345; not a 

 leading member of the Administration party 

 who is not committed in doctrine, if not in 

 practice, to a separation of the States, 346 ; is 

 this member to be excluded from the House in 

 contempt of its rules, in contempt of his con- 

 stitutional rights, and the constitutional rights 

 of his constituents? 346; there is a hope in 

 this House, 346; war never did and never 

 will bring your Union together in such a man- 

 ner as to be worth a cent, 346 ; the Union is 

 dissolved, and a gulf of blood between the sec- 

 tions, 346 ; I hope you will never subjugate 

 the South, 347; rather than see the Southern 

 people exterminated, I would accept recogni-' 



