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215 : to say that we have not the constitutional power to 

 protect ourselves is an absurdity, 215 ; censure of the 

 Secretary of the Navy, 216 ; votes on the report of tho 

 Committee of Thirty-three, 216, 217, 218; In the Senate, 

 a bill to discontinue postal service considered, 218; 

 rather a peace measure than otherwise, 21S ; an indirect 

 attempt to strike at States which have seceded, 219 ; 

 what the bill assumes, 239 ; what is the secret of the op- 

 position to this bill, 219 ; a deliberate plot to break up 

 this Union under pretence of preserving it, 219 ; but one 

 issue in this case, 219 ; communication from the Presi- 

 dent of the Peace Conference, 220; report on, 220; dis- 

 sent of certain Senators, 220 ; their reasons, 220; resolu- 

 tion offered, 220 ; the Peace Conference measure would 

 increase the difficulties, 220 ; compromise needed to save 

 the country, 220 ; to be deplored that the mediation of 

 Virginia has not been effective, 221 ; we stand in the 

 presence of peace or war, 222 ; the amendments of the 

 Peace Conference are a cheat, 222 ; the Senate convenes 

 on Sunday evening, 223 ; crowded hall, 223 ; disturbance, 

 223 ; questions of order, 223 ; readiness of the South to 

 compromise, 224; amendments offered to the Peace Con- 

 ference proposition, 224,' all measures fail to pass, 225; 

 Congress adjourns, 225. 



EXTBA SESSION, commencing July 4th, 225 ; the mem- 

 bers, 225 ; question of the right of Senators from Western 

 Virginia to seats, 226 ; notice of a bill to confiscate prop- 

 erty, 226 ; resolution to approve the acts of the Presi- 

 dent, 227 ; amendment offered, 22T ; all the propositions 

 of this joint resolution cannot be endorsed, 227; suspen- 

 sion of the habeas corpus, 227; no necessity for it, 227; 

 the acts of the Administration were forced upon it by 

 tho condition of the country, 228 ; an army of forty thou- 

 sand true men last January would have prevented this 

 state of affairs, 228 ; the application of force is not the 

 way to maintain the Union, 228; justification for the 

 suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, 228 ; ratify 

 whatever needs ratification, 228 ; the determined aggre- 

 gated power of the whole people of this country will yet 

 conquer, 229 ; violation of the rights of the people, 229 ; 

 seizure of telegraphic despatches a violation of the Con- 

 stitution, 230 ; the President has no right to regulate 

 commerce between the States, 230; he has involved 

 the country in a war in violation of the Constitution, 

 230 ; other instances, 280 ; those who propose to maintain 

 the Union by force are disunionists, 230 ; efforts to avert 

 the difficulty, 231 ; what is the excuse for this violation 

 of the Constitution necessity, 231 ; the doctrine of ne- 

 cessity denied, 231 ; what has the President done, 232; 

 who is to judge, 232 ; the line of demarcation in endors- 

 ing the conduct of the President, 232; the increase of tho 

 army, 232 ; not disposed to say the Administration has 

 unlimited power, 233 ; this joint resolution of not much 

 importance, 233; the Senate does not intend to pass tho 

 resolution, 234; the President has no power to suspend 

 the writ of habeas corpus, 234 ; resolution to expel cer- 

 tain Senators offered, 234 ; is a Senator to be condemned 

 individually for the action of his State, 234 ; desirable to 

 deny on this floor the right of any State to secede, 234 ; 

 expulsion implies turpitude, 235 ; resolution passed, 235. 



Senators from Western Virginia, their credentials pre- 

 sented, 235 ; involves grave questions, 235 ; you have no 

 authority to create a new State, 235 ; the certificates, 

 235 ; an abandonment of the whole form of your Gov- 

 ernment, 235 ; it is because we will not recognize insur- 

 rection in a State that we admit these men, 235 ; this 

 proceeding is an overthrow of the Constitution, 236. 



Amendment offered to the army bill, 236 ; the pur- 

 pose of this war is to maintain the national honor, 236 ; 

 defend the national property and uphold the flag, 236; 



to preserve the Union, 236; declarations of Senators! 

 236 ; rather than let the Government perish let slavery 

 perish, 236; the institution of slavery will not survive 

 the march of the Union armies in any State, 236 ; this 

 is no war of subjugation, 236 ; if it is not a war of subju- 

 gation, what is it, 237 ; if the issue is the Government 

 or slavery, then let slavery do down, 237 ; the institu- 

 tion of slavery did not of necessity produce this rebel- 

 lion, 237; is commerce to be destroyed because a tariff 

 is made, 239 ; what right has any Senator to go into my 

 State and thrust himself between me and my property, 

 237; what would be thought if you were to march an 

 army against New York to despoil the people of their 

 houses and their goods, 238; amendment rejected, 238. 



Conduct of the war, 238 ; increase of the army neces- 

 sary, 238; what is the clamor about the increase of the 

 regular army, 239 ; state of the army when secession 

 commenced, 239 ; this Government rests for its support 

 on the consent of the governed, 239 ; men and money 

 may desolate but cannot bring peace, 289 ; this is not a 

 war of conquest, 239 ; this Government will be preserved 

 and the gallows will eventually perform its office, 240 ; 

 what is your country worth when the finale comes, 

 240 ; if there is no other way to quell this rebellion we 

 will make a solitude and call it peace, 240 ; not vote 

 more men and money than the Administration asks, 

 240 ; one hundred thousand men entirely sufficient to 

 restore the Constitution, 240 ; may it not be necessary 

 to leave the track of the chariot wheels of war so deep 

 in the Southern soil that a century may not obliterate 

 it, 241 ; amendment offered, 241 ; in the Senate resolu- 

 tion on the conduct of the war offered, 241 ; the war 

 prosecuted for the purpose of the subjugation of rebels 

 and traitors, 241 ; the resolution simply says that we 

 are not waging a war for the subjugation of States, 241 ; 

 we have a purpose to defend the Constitution and the 

 laws of the country, 242 ; a fear exists that the design of 

 this war is subjugation, 242; such not its purpose, 242 ; 

 Congress no right to interfere with slavery in the States, 

 242 ; this war is prosecuted for purposes of subjugation, 

 243 ; tho war is prosecuted for the purpose of subduing 

 the disunionists of the Southern States, 243 ; what did 

 the minority demand, 243. 



In tho House resolutions relative to the war offered, 

 244 ; appropriation to pay the police force of Baltimore 

 considered, 244; by ratifying tha acts of this adminis- 

 ration you are writing the blackest pages in the history 

 of this courtry, 244; division 6f the Democratic party 

 at Charleston and Baltimore brought the existing ca- 

 lamity upon the Union, 245; the Douglass party fur- 

 nished you one-half of your entire army, 245; who 

 forced General Scott into the battle at Bull Kun, 245; 

 statement of General Scott respecting the battle, 246; 

 discussion of the battle, 246. 



Confiscation bill in the Senate, 246; its features, 247; 

 fourth section of the bill, 217; under some contingencies 

 the slave becomes entitled to his freedom, 247; it 

 amounts to a wholesale emancipation, 247 ; limitations 

 of the bill, 247 ; you place one species of property on a 

 different footing from another, 248 ; you have no power 

 by the Constitution to touch slavery at all, 248 ; is It 

 not competent to forfeit the claim that a man has to his 

 slaves for treason in the master, 248 ; if you have no 

 power, there the question ends, 248 ; is it not a plain 

 breach of the Constitution that a man shall forfeit his 

 slaves, 249 ; can a confiscation law promote the success 

 of the army, 249 ; the rebels have no standing in court, 

 they cannot invoke tho Constitution, 250 ; bill amended 

 and passed, 250 ; Congress adjourns, 250. 

 Connecticut, its boundaries, 250; Government, 250; popu- 



