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INDEX OF CONTEXTS. 



ITODI its lethargy? 207; stop tinkering -with the cur- 

 rency, 207 ; debt growing frightful, 207 ; make treasury 

 notes a legal tender, 207. 



Bill to abolish exemptions considered, 207; 400,000 

 men on the rolls, but how many in the army ? 207 ; una- 

 ble to feed those in the fields, 207; iranufactures as ne- 

 cessary as agriculture, 208 ; must have more men in the 

 field, 20S ; the cry of scarcity a stratagem, 208 ; the State 

 of Virginia cannot stand another draft, 208; our policy 

 to protract the war, 208 ; weak point of the enemy is his 

 finances, 208 ; most certain way to feed the army is to 

 increase the numbers in the field, 209 ; bill passed, 209. 



In the House, the employment of free negroes and 

 slaves under certain circumstances, considered, 209 ; 

 bring 40,000 men into the field without diminishing 

 our resources, 209 ; unjust discrimination against the 

 poorer white classes, 209 ; unconstitutional, 209 ; further 

 debate, 210 ; bill passed, 210. 



Joint resolutions of both Houses of Congress, 210; 

 manifesto of Congress relative to the existing war, 210. 



Session of Congress in May, 211 ; list of members, 211 ; 

 explanation in the House relative to public sentiment in 

 North Carolina, 211 ; further explanation, 212 ; act to 

 suspend the privilege of habeas corpus, 212; Its effect, 

 212 ; preamble and resolutions relative to peace submit- 

 ted, 213 ; discussion, 213 ; substitute for the resolutions 

 offered, 214; substitute to the substitute offered, 214; 

 the Government should propose terms of peace, 215; 

 would they be received by the United States ? 215 ; it 

 was intimated they would be received, 215 ; resolutions 

 offered relative to prosecuting the war to Independence, 

 215. 



The employment of slaves In the army, 216 ; not need- 

 ed, 216; are we approximating exhaustion? 216; the 

 appeal to African troops to save us, 216; how is it pro- 

 posed to fight negro troops, 217 ; will the negro fight 

 well enough to resist the Yankee ? 217 ; the employment 

 of negroes a confession of weakness, 217 ; bill to arm the 

 slaves, 217 ; passage in the House, 217 ; lost In the Sen- 

 ate, 217 ; action of the Virginia Legislature, 217 ; bill re- 

 considered In the Senate, 217 ; amended, 218 ; vote on its 

 passage, 218; we thought we had got rid forever of the 

 slavery agitation, 21S; a confession of despair and an 

 abandonment of the ground of secession, 218 ; If we are 

 right In passing this measure wo were wrong in denying 

 to the old Government the right to interfere, 218 ; neces- 

 eity of freeing the negroes if they were made soldiers, 

 218 ; no considerable body could be raised in the States 

 without stripping the country of the labor necessary to 

 produce food, 218 ; as to its expediency it is worse than 

 a question of principle, 218. 



Congress, United States. List of members, 219 ; objections 

 to the members from West Virginia, 219 ; choice of 

 Speaker in the House, 219 ; moved in the House to refer 

 to a special committee the portion of the message relat- 

 ing to the rebellious States, 220 ; reasons for the refer- 

 ence, 220; inquire if republican government has not 

 heen overturned north of the Potomac, 220 ; there are no 

 rebel States, 220 ; States in which rebels have taken pos- 

 session, 221 ; motion adopted, 221. 



Resolution of thanks to Gen. Grant, 221 ; resolution 

 relative to the suspension of certain newspapers, 221 ; do. 

 relative to forgery of public documents, 221 ; do. relative 

 to suspending the writ of habeas corpus, 222 ; do. rela- 

 tive to the trial of Vallandigham, 222; do. relative to 

 persons arrested, 222 ; bill relative to bail for persons ar- 

 rested, 223. 



In the Senate, resolution relative to Senators taking an 

 oath prescribed by Congress, considered, 223 ; a Senator 

 not a civil officer decided by Congress, 223 ; the Senate 



has decided this law to be constitutional by its passage 

 223 ; reason for presenting the subject, 223 ; what is th 

 true meaning of the act of Congress ? 223 ; what objec- 

 tion to refer to a committee ? 224 ; who is not ready at 

 this moment to vote on the question? 224; no more 

 grave matter can come before the Senate, 224 ; reference 

 lost, 224; question postponed, 224; again considered, 

 224 ; the adoption or rejection of the resolution involves 

 two general questions, 224 ; is the action repugnant to 

 the Constitution, and is a member of the Senate included 

 in the provisions of the act ? 224 ; the form of oath orig- 

 inally adopted prescribed by the Constitution, 225 ; this 

 act in conflict with the fifth article of the amendment to 

 the Constitution, 225 ; every one required to take this 

 oath held to answer for a capital crime, 225 ; the act re- 

 pugnant to the second section of the second article of 

 the Constitution, 225 ; of the nature of an ex post facto 

 law, 226 ; is a Senator a civil officer ? 226 ; case of Win. 

 Elount, 226 ; definition of loyalty, 226. 



What trouble was intended in some manner to be cor- 

 rected by these laws ? 226 ; how can the country be se- 

 cured against its repetition? 226; how are such men to 

 bo kept out ? '227 ; the former oath furnished no security, 

 J-JT. 



Whoever comes here duly elected and with the quali- 

 prescribed by the Constitution is entitled to his 

 seat, 227 ; this act is for the most part retrospective, 227 ; 

 could the Senator who introduces this act have taken an 

 oath, which the majority of the Senate might have pre- 

 scribed when he first entered it ? 228 ; to deny a man 

 having the Constitutional qualifications a seat, is to break 

 the Federal compact ? 228; does the act in question em- 

 brace the case of a Senator ? 228 ; is a Senator a civil 

 oflicer ? 229 ; is it in the power of the Senate by a rule 

 to require an additional oath? 230; what is the oath re- 

 quired by the Constitution ? 230. 



The simple question is, Will the Senate obey an exist- 

 ing statute ? 231 ; is a Senator an officer what says the 

 dictionary ? 231 ; what say the Constitutions of various 

 States ? 231 ; Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, 

 New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, 281 ; the Blue 

 Book, 231 ; the case of Mr. Blount has no application, 

 232 ; the oath has been prescribed by Congress, 233. 



Does the act embrace a Senator ? 233 ; resolution 

 adopted, 233 ; yeas and nays, 233 ; Mr. Bayard of Dela- 

 ware takes the oath, 233 ; his reasons for this action, 233, 

 234, 235. 



In the Senate, a bill to repeal the act prohibiting col- 

 ored persons to carry the mail considered, 235 ; amend- 

 ment proposed to admit them as witnesses, 235; not 

 legal in many States, 235 ; rules of evidence in a State 

 govern United States Courts, 235 ; origin of the legisla- 

 tion proposed to be stricken from the statute book, 236 ; 

 letter of Gideon Granger in 1802, 236; the legislation a 

 part of that system which Congress has so long imposed 

 upon the country, under the domineering influence of 

 slavery, 236; passage of the bill suspended, 236; the 

 amendment added to an appropriation bill, 23G; passed, 

 236 ; yeas and nays in the Senate, 236 ; do. in the House, 

 236. 



In the Senate, a bill to provide a temporary Govern- 

 ment for Montana territory considered, 237 ; moved to 

 strike put the words " white male inhabitant," and to in- 

 sert "male citizen of the United States," & v \, 237 ; if, r.s 

 is contended by those who now administer the Govern- 

 ment, a negro is a citizen, the amendment makes him a 

 voter in the territory, 237; better amend by saying "all 

 black men," 237 ; nature of the Dred Scott decision, 237; 

 Congress as good an authority in its interpretation as the 

 Supreme Court, 237 ; many men think that decision wai 



