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President could afford them, 268; amendment moved, 

 268; what have we heard in this llall? 269; we have 

 not only to conquer the rehel country, but to hold it 

 after it is conquered, 269 ; what is the reason for this 

 bill ? 269 ; they are not necessary for the putting down of 

 this rebellion, 269 ; their employment will result in a 

 servile war, 270; you want to abolish slavery, whether 

 you call it the means of the end, or the end of the means, 

 270 ; right of the Government to take slaves for the 

 army, 270; this policy has been dictated by necessity 

 rather than by choice, 270; course of the administration, 

 270; objecf of this bill to make final the dissolution of 

 the Union, 271 ; proposes to vest in the President a 

 larger power than was ever vested by Congress in the 

 hands of one man, 271 ; financial prospect of this ques- 

 tion, 271 ; the term of enlistment, 272 ; object of the war, 

 272; bill as it passed, 272 ; yeas and nays, 273 ; laid aside 

 in the Senate as already provided for, 273. 



In the Senate, the bill for enrolling and drafting the 

 militia considered, 273; puts the militia of the States 

 under the control of the President, 273 ; motion to strike 

 out, 273 ; no bill of such fearful import ever introduced 

 before Congress, 273 ; does not trench in any way on 

 the provisions of the Constitution, 274 ; the Constitution 

 makes a difference between the army and navy of the 

 United States and the militia of the United States, 274 ; 

 the power which it is proposed to confer on the Presi- 

 dent is merely to go into force antecedent to these mili- 

 tiamen becoming a portion of the army, 275; the pro- 

 visions that when drafted a man shall be subject to the 

 articles of war, 275 ; precedents, 275 ; other precedents 

 275; a prevailing opinion that this war is not being 

 waged for the maintenance of the Constitution and the 

 Union, 276; opinion of Judge Story, 276; the case re- 

 ferred to, 297; opinion of Judge Washington, 299 ; 

 opinion of Justice Johnson, 278; reasons for the pas- 

 sage of the bill, 278; other amendments offered, 279; 

 bill passed, 279. 



Same bill considered in the House, 279 ; House asked 

 to pass it without amendment, 279 ; chief objections, 279 ; 

 amendments proposed, 280; further objections, 280; 

 turns the militia into a regular army, 280; interferes 

 with the personal liberty of the citizen, 281 ; will this 

 bill increase the efficiency of the national forces ? 281 ; 

 our fathers were jealous of the power of an overshadow- 

 ing army. 281 ; no power to force soldiers into the army 

 but by means of the militia organizations, 281 ; subjects 

 the entire militia to be brought into service at the plea- 

 sure of the President, 282; why is this measure called 

 for at this time? 282; a confession of incoinpetency to 

 manage this stupendous war, 282 ; its principles subver- 

 sive of the Constitution, 282 ; the necessity is upon us to 

 pass a bill of tnis character, 282 ; what power has this 

 Government over the militia? 283; look at the provisions 

 of this bill, 283 ; the constitutional power of the Gov- 

 ernment to raise armies, 283 ; let Congress retain some 

 power over the army, 284; a surrender by Congress 

 of the sovereignty of the States, 284 ; it is a beneficent 

 and a benevolent bill, 284; its provisions, 284; $300 pro- 

 vision objectionable, 285; who made the necessity for 

 the bill ? 285 ; a terrible bill, 285 ; the power of Congress 

 to pass it, 285; a question to this nation of life and 

 death, 286; the policy inaugurated December, 1861, has 

 been fruitless of good, 286 ; the negro will not suve 

 you, 286; paper money will not save you, 286; you did 

 without this measure, 286 ; the natural result of the 

 policy which this Congress has pursued from very 

 near the commencement of the war, 286 ; pledges of 

 this Congress, 287 ; what has brought this mighty change ? 

 287 ; what have we seen at this session ? 287 ; why is 



it that we have every man In the field that we can get 

 Toluntarily ? 287 ; why will the people no longer Tolnn- 

 teer f 238; if we want to get back the Union how most 

 we do it ? 288 ; discouragements of the country and the 

 remedy, 288 ; tweedledum and tweedledee, 269 ; hare we 

 found abolition necessary for the salvation of the Union ? 

 289; amendment offered and rejected, 289; bill passed, 

 289 ; yeas and nays, 289. 



Returned to the Senate, with amendments, 290 ; the 

 amendments and the vote on them, 290. 



In the Senate, a bill to provide a national currency 

 considered, 290; what are its objects and purposes, 290; 

 circulation of the existing banks to be withdrawn, 291 ; 

 case of McCulloch r*. State of Maryland, 291 ; United 

 States has no power to tax a State institution out of ex- 

 istence, 291 ; it establishes corporations in all the States 

 entirely independent of any power of visitation by those 

 States, 291 ; propriety of saying that we will be respon- 

 sible for the ultimate redemption of those bills, 291 ; the 

 moment the war ends every man wants his money that 

 he has lent on stocks, 292 ; why did the United States 

 Bank go down ? 292 ; look at this proposition, 292 ; you 

 propose to hire those people to go into these associations, 

 293; all there is about it, 293; examples of the operation 

 of tbe bill, 298 ; the advantage to the United States, 294 ; 

 illustrations, 294 ; it is said the Secretary will become a 

 dangerous person, 294 ; the bill ignores the great princi- 

 ple that a proper circulation should be convertible into 

 specie, 295 ; it will absorb the existing banking system, 

 295 ; we must go on with the war on paper money, 295 ; 

 necessity of the Government to take control of the paper 

 currency, 295 ; bill passed, 295 ; yeas and nays, 295 ; in 

 the House, the bill considered, 295; advantages of the 

 measure, 296 ; bill passed, 296 ; yeas and nays, 296 ; the 

 bill, 296. 



In the House, a bill to admit "West Virginia consider- 

 ed, 304; a bill for the division of an old State, 804; the 

 division has not received that assent from the Legisla- 

 ture of Virginia which the Constitution requires, 805 ; 

 policy of the President, 805 ; legitimacy of the Wheeling 

 Government, 305 ; its history, 805 ; reasons why West 

 Virginia is entitled to admission, 806 ; the theory upon 

 which Virginia is represented in Congress, 806; if Vir- 

 ginia is already in the Union, what need of another act 

 to let her in ? 306 ; it is not Virginia, but "West Virginia 

 that is being admitted, 306; no argument can make 

 stronger the case than the mere statement of the ques- 

 tion, 806 ; it is said that Old Virginia no longer exists, and 

 therefore cannot give consent, 807 ; the Government at 

 "Wheeling is not the Government of Virginia, 807 ; the 

 only question is whether the State of Virginia has con- 

 sented, 807 ; nobody has given a consent who does not 

 reside in the new State itself, 80S ; but mocking to say 

 the Legislature of Virginia has ever consented to this di- 

 vision, 308 ; Governor Letcher is the governor of Vir- 

 ginia, 808 ; these rebellious States are belligerents, and 

 the Constitution has no longer the least effect on them, 

 809 conduct of th President, 809 ; proceedings take 

 place in virtue of the laws of war, 809 ; this bill subverts 

 the principle that the people are the source of all power, 

 809 ; look at the facts, 809 ; how did the people vote ? 

 810 ; who constitute the State of Virginia ? is the great 

 point in discussion, 810 ; the majority of the people of 

 any State are not the State when they organize treason, 

 810 ; can a minority, by the treasonable act of a majority, 

 be stripped of their right of protection by the Federal 

 Government ? 311 ; where the majority become rebels, 

 the minority are the State, 811 ; views of Mr. Madison, 

 811 ; further remarks. 811 ; when the storm of revolution 

 shake* the civil fabric of a State of the Union, the final 



