INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



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Resolutions on tho right of secession, powers of Con- 

 gress, and the separation of the black race from the 

 white* 



Resolution on secession, rights of blacks, and recogni- 

 tion of the Confederate debt, 143. 



Resolutions on the object of the war, the necessity of 

 maintaining the suspension of the habeas corput, and 

 the military occupation of the Southern States, 140; 

 adopted, 149. 



Ju the Senate, amendment of the Constitution relative 

 to tho apportionment of representation considered, 149; 

 nothing less than another compromise of human rights, 

 149 ; counter proposition offered, 149 ; in vain to expect 

 the return of the Southern States to the Union until 

 that security for tho future found In tho equal rights of 

 all, whether in the court-room or ballot-box, was ob- 

 tained, 149 ; necessity and duty of exercising the juris- 

 diction of Congress, 149 ; impartial suffrage asked, 150 ; 

 tho ballot equally necessary to the freedmen and to the 

 Republic, 150; amendment proposed, 150 ; views of the 

 committee in recommending the joint resolution, 150 ; 

 various plans of reconstruction considered, 151; upon 

 what principle does this proposition rest, 151 ; on a polit- 

 ical policy, 151 ; tho amendment presents an alternative 

 to each State, 152 ; negro and Asiatic suffrage must be 

 adopted, or a State will be stripped of a portion of its 

 power under tho Constitution, 152 ; a question of incal- 

 culable importance, 152; opens the whole vast subject 

 of reconstruction, 152; most important proposition 

 ever brought before Congress, 158; eloquence of Chat- 

 ham and Brougham, 158; argument for rejection exam- 

 ined, 153; what shall be done, 154; reply to objections, 

 154; amendments offered, 154 ; adopted, 154. 



In the House, concurrent resolution from reconstruction 

 committee to admit no Senator or Representative until 

 Congress declares the right of the State to representa- 

 tion, 155 ; minority report, 155 ; resolution adopted, 

 155. 



In the Senate, concurrent resolution received from tho 

 House, 155; explanation, 155 ; further explanation, 153; 

 statements of the President relative to an irresponsible 

 directory, 156; further examination of the President's 

 remarks, 157 ; legislative power granted to the commit- 

 tee, 157 ; nobody but Congress tho right to settle tha 

 preliminary question whether tho States are entitled to 

 have representatives here or not, 157 ; reason why com- 

 mittee proposed this proposition, 158; resolution im- 

 portant, in order that Congress may assert distinctly its 

 own rights and its own powers, 15S; whore are we? 

 15S; are we confined merely to a question of papers? 

 159 ; the President has spoken unguardedly, 159 ; what 

 are the consequences of successful war? 159; VattoJ, 

 159; the consequences of civil war precisely the same, 

 159 ; does our form of government change in any way 

 the nature and inevitable legal consequences of a civil 

 war? 160; the Constitution has not specifically provided 

 for a civil war, 160 ; it never contemplated civil war, 

 160 ; a State may be utterly extinguished and swept ont 

 of existence by civil war, 160; a State may forfeit its 

 .'atu,160; the great abuse that these States wore not 

 admitted to representation while the Government was 

 going on to tax them, 161 ; not been together ninety 

 days when we are called upon to admit Senators and 

 Representatives, 161 ; by civil war they lost all rights, 

 161 ; as soon as It can bo done safely, these States should 

 be reestablished In the Union, 162 ; meaning of the reso- 

 lution, 162; It asserts that with Congress alone rests the 

 duty of defining when a State once declared to be in in- 

 surrection, shall be admitted to representation, 162 ; the 

 Wade-Davis bill, 162; other propositions, 168 ; tot the 



proposition by the slmpltst principles oi xinslitutionil 

 law, 168; the power must vest In CcngrtM, 108; the 

 bar* assertion of this power does not tend to promote 

 the object stated in the resolution, 164 ; the real diffi- 

 culty in this whole matter has been the unfortunate 

 failure of the executive and legislative branches of the 

 Government to agree upon tome plan of reconstruction, 

 164; a proper law passed at the end of the last session 

 would have prevented all controversy, 164 ; Lincoln re- 

 gretted be had not accepted the Wade-Davis blll,lK>; 

 having failed to do our constitutional dnty, have we a 

 right now to arraign Andrew Johnson fur following ont 

 a plan which in his judgment be deemed beat? 189; 

 what is the condition of these States? 165; what la the 

 legal result of a State being in insurrection? 165; tho 

 steps adopted by President Johnson in his plan of re- 

 construction, 166 ; with a single stroke be swept away 

 the whole superstructure of the rebellion, 166; the first 

 element of his plan, 166 ; agencies and organs which the 

 plan was to go on, 166; full and ample protection to the 

 freedmen enforced, 167 ; what are the objections to this 

 policy ? 167 ; the principal, that ho did not extend his In- 

 vitation to all the loyal men of the Southern States, in- 

 cluding the colored as well as the white, 167; the preju- 

 dice of the army was against negro suffrage, 167; we 

 complain that the President has not exercised the power 

 to extend to freedmen the right of suffrage, when Con- 

 gress never has done It, 168 ; we have never conferred 

 the right to vote on negroes in Territories, 163; what 

 are the two great systems of policy with regard to 

 reconstruction and reunion on which the minds of the 

 people are now divided ? 163 ; one or the other must bo 

 adopted, 169 ; impossible that tho public mind can bo 

 diverted by any other question, 169 ; what is the present 

 condition of the Southern States ? 169 ; the character of 

 the Government under which we live, 169 ; is the Gov- 

 ernment created by the Constitution a national Gov- 

 ernment ? 170 ; not only is the power of the Govern- 

 ment limited In its legislative department, but it is 

 equally limited in its judicial department, 171 ; the Con- 

 stitution never contemplated that the States should cease 

 to exist, 171 ; it is asserted that their relations as States 

 to tho Government have terminated, 171 : tho resolution 

 of 1S62, 171 ; what provision is there in the Constitution 

 which puts it in the authority of this body to deny to 

 any State an equal representation with the other States, 

 172; a cardinal principle that each State should be en- 

 titled to equal suffrage in the Senate, 172; what are we 

 doing ? 172 ; it is said to be an error to suppose that the 

 insurrection was put down by using that clause of tho 

 Constitution, u to suppress insurrection," 172 ; decision 

 in prize cases, 178; what was the question before tho 

 court ? 178; blot out the States, and the Government is 

 ended, 178; case In point, 178; why are these courts in 

 these States? 174 ; the right of war, 174 ; what, the Gov- 

 ernment conquer States, and by virtue of that conquest 

 extinguish States? 174; rights of conquest, 174; a great 

 many thought the insurrection bad a just foundation, 

 175; meaning of this resolution, 175; two purposes in- 

 tended by the resolution, 175 ; it undertakes to establish 

 the Idea that these States have to bo brought back into 

 the Union by act of Congress, 176; all abolitionists now, 

 176 ; who dare say he is not an abolitionist ? 176 ; we 

 shall prevail, 176 ; in one month, every man here who 

 claims he is not a Radical, will wish ha had been, 177 ; 

 let us for a minute contemplate this most extraordinary 

 proposition, 177; a setting aside of the Constitution 

 Itself 177 ; the whole is monstrous, no matter in what 

 light it may be viewed, 177 ; we have no right to do 

 this, 178 ; the action of the two Houses should be kept 



