Daily State Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 4175, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 March 1864 — Page 2

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THURSDAY MOKN1NO. MARCH 3. The Confiscation Act. We pubthhed, this morning, a tpch delivered in the Hoov bj Hon. J. K. Et-o Fort Wayne district, upon the confiscation ct Mr. Edomtom bandl?, the ubjeci with dorne tw ability, and it it one of great inter et and Im pnrtaoce in connection with tbe rebellion anJ. U reclti. The ipech made a decideJ imprciun upon Ui House, when delivered, and w well receive! by t!.e Democratic raerobwi. Ai the p'.iey and extent of the con fixation ol the pro rrtj of citizen of the rebel Swtei will become one of the political issues of the times, it hould therefore receire due coni Jeratton by trerj citi in, ard in that regard the speech of Mr. ErxitRTox i m!u ib!e und calculttel to do goo. PCUCII O F Hon. JOSEPH K. EDGERTON, OP INDIANA, Dtlitrrrd in the IIou$e of Rrjtttentutitft, January XbCi. - In the Hon ol Represent tire, Mr. Wilson, from the Judiciary Committee, on leave, introduced the following joint resolution: Joint resolution to amend a joint resolution explanatory of "An act to uppre insurrection, to punish tr4on and rebellion, to leize and r)iificate the property of rebels, aud for other purpose," approved Julj 17, lcG'2: KeolveI by the Snte and House of Repre etiUtives of the United State of America in Congrci amlled, Thit the list clause of a "joint resolution explanatory of 'An act to tappre.H insurrection, to pun ih treason and" rebellion, to seize and conSicate the property ol rebel, and for other purpose.' " approved July 17, ltY2, e. "d the Arne hereby ! so amended as to read: "nor lull any punishment or jroceedin; tinder aaid act be so construed as to work a fii t'e.iiure f the estate of the offender except duri.n hi life " Thin amendment being intended to limit the oper.ilion und efl'cct of the said reso lution and act, and the same are heitby limited oulj fir a to mike them conformable to section three of article three of the Constitution of the Unite! State: Provided th.it no other public warninz r proclamation under the act of July 17, lfcC'2. chipter ninety-five, section six, is or shall be, required than tin: prod imation of the President made and publi-hed by him on the t25th day of July, JG2, which piochtui-ttion ?o in t ie shall be received and held suSicient in .ill cases t;ow pending, or which m;ij hereifter arie under act. ' Mr. Stevern p-ive notice thai at t!ic proper time he would aubmit the following as an amendbent: Ile-Hilved by the Sei.ut and llou.-e of Ileprcetit.itivejr of the United State of America io Cnrre?M assembled. That the resolution paired on July I. lfcG2, eulitled joint rivdu lion explanatory of an act to suppress insurrection, et cetera. I Ci3 , be, aud the eanie is hereby repealed. J.tnuarv 2. 161 The above joint resolution being under consideration 31 r. Klgetton said: Mr. Speaker, the speech of the gentleman frtn Pe;iplvania, Mr. ftevens advocating hit proposed nmendihcnt to the joint resolution now betöre the House, removes irom my mind all douM, if any existed before, as to the eharac ter and objects of the act of Congress, of July 17, 1XJ2. entitled "An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treation and rebellion, to seize and con fiscate the property of rebels, and for other purpose." . ' I lUtenod to and have read the gentleman's pee Ii with deep, and I mv say painful. Interest. With the hand of a master, he has drawn in cler and bold outline, . ketch of the character and objects of the war a now wagel by the Federal Executive. Iiis propositions are aubstantully these: ' 1. Tb.it the existing war between the United States and the Confederate States is a civil war, carrying with it the character of public war, in which the United Sutes on theone hand and the Confederate States on the other are belligerent parties, and as to each other independent and foreign u ttions, and the character of alien ene miea attaches to all. including women and children, who in fact, or by domicile, adhere to the Confederate States. iJ. Tb.it the war has abrogated the treaty or comp ict called " constitution," heretofore existing between the United States and the Confederate 8t"!C2, or their people, and neither can claim m against the other the aid of the constitution or ol the laws parsed under it. 3. Tht the territory f the Confederate eign country wheeof the hinds are to be confis cated and Void, and the slaves of the people made !ree.-and the S'atca and their laws reorganized. 4. That be wbo now wishes, to re-establish f'the Union a it was," and to restore "the Constitution ad it is," cannot escape the guilt of at tempting to eu!.v his fellow men. "Tl-.e Union as it was and the Constitution as it is," is an atrocious idea; it is man stealing That all the inhabitant of the Conleder:te States have forfeited all lights under the constitution which they have renounced, and that thev ate forever etöpped from clining "the Union as it was.' Sir, it is a tjueti"n of grave iguiticai.ee to the people of the United State-, ai.d t ihe army d the L'ni'ed States, . o irt of the people, Lecher or not the gentleman Ironi Pennsylvania Mr. Stevens) speak it by authority. On this poirt he nes this latoiuae: To gentle. uen who were members vf the U-t Congress this is . re; tiü.ni. At tlie extra scs B'on of 1 bOl I advanced the Mine suggestions; and I hive re pea teil them 'U all occasions that 1 deemed proper since. They were not then tuite acceptable to either tide of the Üouüo Pu; 1 am glad to find thit the President, after careful examination, has come to the same conclusion. In details we may not quite agree; but his plan of reconstruction assumes the ame general grounds. It proposes to treat the rtoel territory as a conqueror alone would treat it. His plan is wholly outside of and unknown to the Consti'u lion. But it is within the legitim te province of the laws of war. His leal mind has carefully studied the Uw of nation and reichet! a just conclusion " I do not uow allude to the speech of the gentleman from Pennsylvania with a view to make it the chief themeof my rem irks at this time, or to attempt an answer to it now; for even if I felt myself able to enter the field of argumeit with a gentlemsn of his eminent ability and gre it parlia m?ntarv experience. I should Icein it due to my cause and to myself to devote to the speech more of time for investigation anJ thought than I have t yet been able to give to it. , The speech is one that should be lead and j r:iderel well by e cry nun who desires to re i lor "the Union as it was under the Constitution ! as it W in extirev-ioi,, f ii , I ouM hete siy,as grosly misunderstood as it is grossly misreprc steine!; :u 10 ine true iiienos 01 iie i mod a the Constitution imde it ihe speed i will u;gtt the pregnant ptesti n, is this a ar for "the Union And they may further ask: To what good does the blood of our people fl w bke water, ..n 1 tax ition lay its iron h md u;u our labor ar.d our estates, if the Union and the Contiauioti be lor.jer our cause ana justincation ; .uiiv men. J, tens and hundred of thousand. ho give t'n r n ernett uiport. and would tili SUOrt it tor its joUand constitutional purpise. will inquire, if the gentlemm from Permsylvania be the exponent of our war policy, whether it is not better to say to the Sttes aud t-etpe now composing the foreign country" to the Sou'.h ot US. and once Our sitcr States, "Way ward sis ter. go in peace," than to attempt to force upon them, by the power of war, the iron bondi which the iron policy of the gentleman from Pennsylvania Mr. Steven) would forge for them. It is common, ir, for gentlemen on the other tide to denounce uj, and the greit Democratic party of the North, as diunionisw, sympathizers with rebellion, neceionisui, dislotal men; nd the word "traitor" almost fell from the lips of the geni!m from Ohio Mr. Spaldiug the . other dajr in his allusion to bis Democratic ctd. league Mr. C Sir, if Jef!Vron Davis ever gve o'terance to sentiments more disunion or d;Io;al, or ever itid;ca:cJ a more f ital purpose -towtrd the Union a:id Constitution, than the ßtu tleman from I'eiuisylranla baa done in his ;et h. I hate jet to find the record of such utterances; and I fartLer, air. and sty that it tbePresideut

of the United 5tites accords with the aen'imenu j and purpose of the gentlemm from Penim I vanij, at: l is earning o-. the ar fur such purpose, then he is as ecutia!ly it.fi lei to bis oatb of oüice and hia high duly as a msgistrste and a Citizen as was JefTerson Unis when he commanded Pesnregard to open Ids batteries against the wills of Sumter. Sir, it is a solecism, a mockery, and tn abiuidity to call such f-enti ments as those ol the gentleman Irom Pennsylvania, "Uc'on sentiments," or such a war as he would wsge sgiinst the people of the South, now, as be claims, an alien and foreign people, "a war for the Union " It is thecreed of the gentleman from Pennsylvania, urged from year to jeir with all the energy of his powerful intellect and iron will, thath's poisoned the minds ol the people of this nation, North &nd South, towaid ench other and their common Constitution, aiil brought dis union and civil war npon ns with all their woes. Sir, the men di-loyal to the Union and Constitution are not all adl.ereuts of the Southern Coo lederarj, nor in the rank of thst "od'oua" I)em ocratic party whom the gentlemin from Pennsylvania seems so much to loathe and despise; the names of nuny mvy be found in the rt lls of tL"Iyal Leagues." und not a few even iu high pi ices of Federal power. Sir, if the President and his party in power deire to deplete and demoralize the Army of the Union, sn J take from it ard tive to the rebellion all the moral power of a just cause; if they desire to remove all inducement for the free enlistment of men to recruit our Army; if they deVire to make the conscription law a dead letter on the statute book; if they desire to t-ap the unsteady foundation, and tumble into ruin hopeless and irretrievable, the alietdy inflated and unsubstantial structure of our public credit; if they desire to prolong the war. to agcravate its horrors and intensity i?.s hate, and enlist against us the sympathies of the civil zed world, and finally to secure to the Confederate States their

independence as a nation, leaving the name and glory of the United Slates as but the shadow of a oi.ee mighty name and power iu the earth, let the President and his party adopt and persist in an attempt to carry out the policy of the gentleman from Pennsylvania In the view I hive of the character and pur poses of the party in power, as a revolutionary party, it seems li T.Z cf ! M,f fTprir.r.ci, except as to lorm, whether the joint resolution reported by the Judiciary Committee, or the proposed amendment of thegentlemaii from Pennsylvania Mr. Stevens, or that suggested by tlie gentleman from Ohio Mr. Spalding, be adopted by Congress. Either would remove the s'slriction virtually imposed by the Piesident him.-elf upon the ac t of July 17. lbG?. That act as drawn was intended to work a complete foifeiture of the real and personal estate of the t!a.-es of offenders designated by it. Congress, under dure-s pier minus from the President, as we are told, limited, by their joint resolution of July 17, lfG2, the forfeiture of real estate under the act to the lite of the offender. The object of all the propositions now bel'oie the House ou the subject is to remove that limitation. The real iisue, then, raised by this debate, as is manifest from the tenor of the argument on both ides. is the issue of absolute, sweeping con fisc.ition. eiiiier by legislation 01 judicial process, ft?siimin to be within ami according to the Con stilution, or by the la .va and process of war outside of the Constitution. Upon that issue, were there no constitutional limittlions or limitations of belligerent rights under the law of nations to a licet it, 1 tvoul I oppose the joint lesolution now before the IIoue and the amendments proposed to it. on the hro.id grounds of Christian hurnur.ty mid public policy. Assuming for the Federal tiovernment all the right and power of war claimed for it by the gentleman from Pennsylvania, Mr. Stevens, the -pirit that would prompt thtir use to the ex tent be contemplates is the tyrant's spiiit. not the pv.ric:'; :::: t..c j.MIuunropist's. It is r.?rp wi.-e nor well. sir. for any government to do all in the way of punishment er revenge toward its own people or an alien people that it his power to do. On the contrary, we are told by a wise master of humm niture that F.arth!y power doth then show likbt God's, When mercy msasons Justice." I have therefote felt it to be my duty to say f omething, more by way of general discussion than of legal argument, for that has fallen to abler hands, upon the questions involved in this debate. And Iii -t, my sense of what is due to my Ksition as one of the minority here leads me to allude briefly to some offensive remarks addressed to us by gentlemen on the other side ol the House. Wc Wve been told, sir, by one gentleman Mr. Lovcjoy that we are here without a constituency; by another Mr. Davis that we were sent here to embarrass the Administration, und that our support was not needed and would be looked upon with suspicion; and the word traitors was almost ued by another gentleman Mr. Spalding in alluding to the Detnocncy of Ohio; while the gentleman from 1'ennsvlvani.t Mr. Stevens spoke of the Democratic puty generally as an "odious pirty, inspired by the love of shiverv alone," and destined to 'Vink into utter contempt and despised of all men." Sir, I shall not comment upon the spirit that evidently animated these remarks, further than t. i hut it ; : v '"ricr.dl io tne wise and patiioti legislation which the peril of this nation now demmds, and to further say that if the gentlemen on the other side will look to the returns of the fall elections of G3, I think they will find tint the minority represent upon this fioor the opinions, the pitriotism, and the determined purpo.-e of not le-s than one million ami a half ot Iree intelligent electors iu the Stales from wheiice we come; and, sir, that purpose is firm tlut neither the Federal Executive, of whoe revolution iry policy and un'.on.-titution il edicts the majority ot this House seem to be the willing echoes and instruments, nor the revolutionary confederation gov n. el by Jefferson Pith, shall ever destroy the Feder il Union, or the Cn:iiution of the United States, which is its lite and its bond 0ir con-tituencv, Mr. Speaker, are interested in the Union and tlie Constitution. Thev have j iu them an estste of inhetit ttice which they j h'ghly val ie The history and glory of the j Union belong to them as well as to the con-titu- 1 eutsot the majority. Oor henth stones and roof j trees, our w'ues and childien, our lands and j goods, our per-on ami our rights of every name i and degree, aie as much entitled to be. and claim I as much to be, under the JOgis of tho Constilu J tion, as nie, or can claim to be, those of the ma j irity. Sir, if the gentlemen on tlie other side I of this House claim to be Iriends of the Union, we know we are iis Iriends; if they clfra to respect the Constitution, we know that we honor it in thought, in word, and in deed, in the true sense in which Washington houored it, as the palladium of American liberty The people of the United States, irrespective i of pirty name, are in thebroid and just sense! ot the term the constituents of every Heprepsen- j tative on this trror,and he is illy fitted tor a j place here whose mind and heart c ir.not do justice and deal in equity with the rights and interests ot the people of every State and section ot the United States. There are rights of States, as sovereignties and bodies politic, and rights ot persons under the Constitution, for which we are here to s peak!, to deliberate, ar.d vote; and as one, if but an humble one. of the minority. I be lieve I but utter their united voice when I sy they will n. tiiluMy do their duty in that regard, heedless of the taunts or tiireats of the majority . I have no ambition. Mr. Soeaker, to distin-1 giiish myselt in this House as one among the j n umber of thedestroyers of the constitution il sov j ereignty of Federal States. It is no part ol my i cieed, as I understand it to be the creed of the gentleman from Maryland Mr. Divis. that I "State rights are national wrongs." On the con- , trarv.I believe that State rights, in the true con- ! .t;tutional sense of the term, are rich's, not rongs; and when I took in oth of orhVe to support the Constitution of the United Stales I felt ihst it bound me as much and as sacredly to respect here by my voice and votes, and elsewhere by word and deed, the constitutional rights and sovereignty of insulted Maryland ar.d down trodden Delaware, ithin their constitutional sphere and jurisdiction, as it bound me to respect an I Mi:;vrt the rights and sovereignty of the, L nied State in their sphere. For one, sir, 1 hive no re-pect tor nor sympathy with the assissins of the constitutional rights of any Federal State of this Union, much ies when the a-iMitf pirricMI hind is turned against the Stite ahich give hini birth an I to which he owes allegiance, I have no svmpstby with that spirit of Jacobin ferocity displayed by some of tlie leaders of the Administration, who, in their thirst for blooU and confiscation, re al ready rivaling the worst days of the French Revolution, WuM Heaven defying crime waded kneedeep in blood, under the banner of "liberty, equality, and fraternity." S, äs 1 look tipo ln troubled scene of our nation! afTVir. I see three powerful parties or combinations struggling for maatery, and shaping our dastiDT a a people lor weil or woe Tbey are: I. The party of secession lea by Jef

ferson Divis nd his cmdjutrrs in trenon, rebellion, insurrection, or revolution I care not what name you tive it who are endeavoring by war to destroy the constitutional union and government of the United States 2. The party of the Federal Administration, a political piry of many incongruous elements and conflicting principles, assuming to itself the mme of Union party, intolerant even to fanaticism in its opinions, bold and violent in it declared purpose of crushing oüt rebellion, but atthesitne timedily asserting md exercising despotic power in the Federal Government, and by Executive edicts, by Conptesionvl legislation, and by military p-ower combined, working a radical revo!ut:on destruct iveof the bisia and princi;!e of the Federal sys tern of constitutional government. 3 The conservative, or true Union party, better known by the h'Mtor-c name that has distinguished it, almost from the adoption of the Constitution, as the Democratic prty, which, renining its cardinal principles1 and distinctive org n:z tion as the prty of tlie people, is resisting all efforts to destroy the Federal Government, from whitever source they rome. as well as all efforts to subvert or destroy States, and is aiming always, whether

it uses the power of war or rhe spirit and arguments of peice, to restore Ihe ditutbed balance of the Constitution, by recognizing and maintaining both national and state rights, and bringing all into tbe healthy ami beneficent action of peace and re-union under the Constitution. The gentleman from Marplsnd and hiscoadju tors here or elsewhere may affect to despise as much as they pleise the support of the minoiity in this Houe, or of the con-tituents we repre sent; but I siy to the gentlemin, that which he should know, or will know, perchance, before niany moons have waxed and waned, that our constituents' already numbering, as I have said, a million and a hilf of Iree born electors, are yet a power in this Union ol States; a power whether lor teace or for war; a political power at the ballot box, and a mateiial power for war. With out their aid this Union cannot be restored, and without their aid it cannot be de-tioyed. He viled and despised as they are by party opponents of more zeal than knowledge, or of more malice than patriotism, the conservative Democratic pnrty of the Uni'cd States, as it will be organT"i i.u represented and led in the grand contest of ltG4, will hold in in its hands the issue of these days of peril Union or no Union, Constitution or no Constitution; and they mean that that issue shall be settled according to the Constitution und laws of the land; not otherwise. I warn the gentlemen who taunt U9 with having no contituancy, and scoff at our and the'r support, that they do not too much ignore nor desrese the constituency we rejre-ent; for, sir, il is ofien as true of parties as of men crow n proud by ill deserved succe-a, that 'pride eoeeth before destruction, and a haughty j-p'rit before a fill." Thee, sir, are my answers to thoe gentlemen in this House, who. arrogant with the power of their majority, daily insult us and the constituents we represent with taunts, which, to . the let of them, are not the arguments of statesmen. In the jrdnt resolution now under consideration and in the proposed amendment of the gei. ticman from Pennsylvania, Mr Stevens I see the evidence of two distinct ides as to the mode of procd-ding to reach the common object of the majority iu regard I the subject matter ol the resolution, n unely, the confiscation absolute and complete of the lands or red estate of the South eru insurgents. The policy, now no longer con ceiled, but openly declared ten only in the speech of the gentlem n from Pennsylvania, but declared in this very Hall, a lew evenings ago. and iuudly appiauJed, iu prot'iice id ll) Pre-i uei't hi m -elf, who ws (hen, with like applause, re nominated for a second term of office, as the exponent and representative Ol tint policy, demands thit the territory, the aciuil soil of the Southern States in insurrection, shall come under the control of the Federal (Jovernment, so that it cao est ab-olute titles in lee in the per sons white or black to whom that Government may grant it by sale or gift Absolute title is wanted and must le had, or the party in power now thoroughly educated into the most radical abolition policy, will fail in the purpose which has become its grand con'rolling purpose in this war. This purpose is no other than the absolute subju gition ol the Southern or slave States to the Northern or anti slavery States, reorganizing them on the Northern or New England basis a basis clearly declared in well-seeming words by the present head of the Department of State, in a speech made at Chicago in October. liCU, when he said that the creed of the Republican paity was that "Freedom was to be maintained nnd carried un on thi continent, by federal states baed upon the principles of ircc free labor, free speech, equal rights and universal suffrage." The Chief Magistrate, to whose proclamations sworn assent is now demanded as a tc.-t or criterion of loyalty, and to which it i expected that Congress and the owurts of law. paramount even t that organs, law by which the Presidential office is created and its powers defined, years ago declared that the Union could not permanently endure half slave and half free; and to the demonstration of the truth of hat, when spoken, was but the pretentiously oracular utter ance of an obscure politician, the whole power of the United States js to be made subsiuiarv and subordinate even to the removal of the land m u ks of property and the upturning of social systems and the virtual annihilation of the Con stitution. ithout the approval o: historic pre cedent, or the sanction of sound political philo sophy, or of true Christian philanthrophy, a , grand utophin experiment to " wah the Ethiop i white" is to be made at once, at every cost and h izird. And here, sir, I would remark that men i have not been wanting, and they were many, who, while the irreuiesible conflict between free ; anls'ave Sfites was jrocliimed by those now! wielding thepowetsof the Federal Government, I clearly foresaw and give waT.ing that civil ai t and disunion in the Unite! States vveie the in-j evitabie teults of that conflict if ra-ddv con- j tinued to te urged upon the people The last i thiee years have but proved the truth of history, that wisdom and warning arc alike lost on men, iutl imed with the wild zeal of fanaticism. better j it be religious, phil-tuthtopic, or political j The ze dots of slavery and the zealot of nnti . slavery have had their way. and the aite-tants of ' their zeal are a t token Union, a dihonoied Con- I stitution, a land drenched with blood, filled with demoralization, sadness, an 1 deith. and already ' burdened with public debt whose giant form pro jects into the swift-corning fuMire the gloom of national binkruptcy. The same policy which was the chief exciting cause and forerunner of civil war is now its concomitant and the guide of the Federal Administration in its conduct. It has been determined by the Administration that the lands of the Southern States shall become Iree soil, that is soil whereof white men ' and negroes shall share in common ownership, j co equ iis in all rights political nnd social. I The constitutional rights of States and persons, i the canons of property. State law, the principles of public law, the spirit of Christianity, and that unconquerable instiuct of nature which binds ' men ot the same race to each other as brother to brother, m ty and do stand in the the way of the ' nej.ro Utopia which philanthropy run mad sees ' rising up on the sunny phvns of the South. Dut ' hat ofthat? An oracle has said: "This Union i cannot permanently endure half slave and half free;" and therightsof States guarrantied by the Federal Constitution to m ike their own constitutions ot local covern merit, and their own laws to form and control their domestic institutions, are no other thin national wrongs before the higher law of negro emancipation and elevation. The law of nations, Christianity, the natural instincts of kindred and race must yield to it; and it leaps over or breaks d.twn with impunity constitutional limitations plainly written nnd nude sacred by time and the expositions of the most eminent jurisprudents. How much of the partizan or farat ical spirit of revenge, or of mean cupidity and greed of person.il gain, or of low political ambi tion meaner thn averace, miv mingle in the motives of some of the "loyal" men who are urging forward this giant schemes to subjugate, irnpovrish. expttriate, or exterminate, millions of a kindred race of white men, inheritors of the n:mcs and homes of patriots and 8ges wose mines and dtels illuminate our history, for the assumed benefit of a race of black men and their white co equals, 1 am not row prepired to say, but the history of this wur tha far in the details of it opptesj-ioii and dcTsstnions. in its recklesa expenditures and ffScial fraud, its army and navy contracts, its c.itton an 1 sujar speculstion, and kindred schemes of "loyal" enterprise, afford heart sickening revelations to men who love their country, and watch with care ti e progress of events. As I have already remarked, there are two leading ideas in the minds of Administration menas to the ways and means of accomplishing the schemes of the party in power. The one is the idea of men ho fmm temperament or con servatire political education, or other cause, are timid men, and by strategy au l indirection ou!d achieve destructive and revolutionary objects through the ue of constitutional forui.

To this class, which may be styled the con -er-yatircjuny in the Adni'ii.istraUoij, t! P.Csidct.t himself nsturaliy belongs. The other idea is that of the radicals of the Administration party; men who originate and lead and shape revolution; men of more robust intellect, clearer men Ul vision, more energy of will and directress of purpose than the President and lis conserratire adheients; men of thestan.p if it may so sav of the gentleman from Pennsylvania, 'Mr. Ste Ten?, hose amendment would sweeo away at once all tie cobwebs of constitutional technicalities by which more timid and less clear sighted men ofhis put y would stop the onward progress pf juggernaut of confiscation, whet eon the negro idol sits enthroned. The timid men want absolute confiscation. It opens before them a wide field where revenue, philanthropv. and " loyahv" cau all et profit and substantial reward. The Constitution is a lion in their path; a wall in their wjy; fortress and a rock of delcnse to rights of States and rights of person and property. A bold man, a revolutionist, like the gent!e man from Pennsylvania, would, if need be, at

once strike the rampart of the Constitution, or pu-h it aside as an unwritten parchment if it lay iu bis pathway. The gentleman from Ohio, Mr. Garfield, with the elasticity of youth, but the discretion of age. would not rush deliriously against the Constitution, but would overleap it at a bound. Conservative legislators here, less bold than the geutleman from Pennsylvania, and less elastic thtn the gentleman from Ohio, while professing a desire to do nothing contrary to it, would ciawl over, under, or around the Constitution, into the elysinm of national salvation and universal frtedon'i which they see beyond it. Herein is the cardinal difference between the two wings or divisions of the Administration patty, and the President tieems neither by nature nor in fact to be lite leader of mther but to take his color and his cue from oi.e side or the other, as the pressure or need of support from either may froin time to to time be gleitest. Darting ray utter abhorrence of the revolutionary purposes of the party, what little of respect 1 have for their methods, is with the radical. With them, we, whose duty it is to stand iu defense of the Constitution, kr ow we will have an open field and a fair battle. Fiom a man who openly curses the Constitution we know what to expect. Not so us to him who would betray it with a kiss. The war power, the m.iii clad, slaughterbreathing, remorseless Mars, is the divinity the gentleman from Pennsylvania Mr. Stevens calls to his aid. This war power, which, in the form it ! now assumes, w is unseen and unsuspected in the j placid, beautiful features of the Federal Consti-1 tutinn, has suddenly spring from it, full armed, j like Pallas Irom the brain of Jove: or I miht t better say that l;e the little cloud no larger than a man's hand, which Kii-hi saw from the top of Carmel coming up fiom the horizon of the sea, the war power has grown and spread from a . misty, dimly seen nebula, until its deep dark ' shadow covers the laud like a pall, and men gaze on it "as men bo watch the thuuJtr cloud iu fear, best it bou!d hrrak above theni." This war power a it is now sought to be applied to our jm imprudence is not a constitutional instrument, but a rerolutioniry invention ot radical minds. It is no legitimate child of the Constitution; it does not benri's lineaments. Nor is it the child of the President; it has in it nothing of his intellectual or physical conformation. It ha lten brought to him as ai ally and helper; something whereon he might lean, and to some extent he has Used it He has used it to effect the radictl end of the emancipation of the si ives. He used it first for this purpose with hesitation, with repugnance aud gteat misgiving He thought a proclam-ition of emancipation under the war power would be thunder without the bolt or the electric shock, or like the Pope's bull ngainst the comet. But the President's mind is changeful. What he thinks or declares to-day he may not think or declare or ubide by to-morrow. What the President Use! doubtingly and timidly at first, but now with u-o is grow ing enamored, as bojs grow in love with their first firemns, be it gun or pistol, and as men grow pleased with power by using it, the gentlemen from Pennsylvania has no fear nor doubt in using. He marches boldly up to the issue of confiscation, and claims it, not as a punishment for treason under the Constitution, but as a belligerent right of the uunqueior over the conquered, outside of the Constitution. Against the theory of tlie inviolability of the constitutional Federal Union, State lights, the rights ol properly end person unler Federal and State constitutions, placed in one scale, he boldly throws into the opposing claim what William Pinckncv once aptly let med "the ponderous claim of war." Uy secession and revolution, in the view of thccuilec:-.:: fr::z Pcnn::7!rniathe Southern people have become alien enemies. We have invaded and coiquered their territories, anil by the power of war emancipated their slaves within our reacs. Their lands are our property, and they and their slaves our subjects. The Federal Government is soveieign over both by tlie laws of war, and nil that remains is to legislate as to the division of the conquered lands, and to organize and protect the new order of frtedmen and fieedmen's society tobe established there This is the theory and pbin of the gentle man from Pennsylvania, and in it the confiscation law pure and unlimited is to play its part. It is a bohl plan, claiming the extremest principles of the law of nations for its bae, and not the Federal Coii"titntion; and. at the proper time, I hope it will be fairly and fully met in all its bearings, in the manner in which it has been met todav in the able argument of my frien 1 from Ohio Mr. Finck when the various bills (that of the gentlem an from Pennsylvania included) for reconstructing States, or organizing conquered provinces, shall come before this House. COSCLflitD TO MORROW. LOST. POCK.KT ISO OK KOST. I OST, on March 2d, between Meridian Mrect and the i Court Hons?, Fomewhere on aVhinattm Mn-et, a lurK'e I-.ither Pocket BM'k, with piw note p.y 1- to Parry, Pullard & iTriirit for $2J; al-o one rote uayabla t' J. T. Ko'-rt for about $?4, and other papers of no value but to f. owner, an t about SlrU in Greenbacks. I w ;ll py a liberal reward to any one on return ng it to this otliceor to ihe uhctiber. JAMES MORGAN. G illaudt t. M.ttch 3, IrHM. d3t FOR SALE. Desirable Brick Residence for Sale. fRliiK undr-.iirnpd will rll the lai- residence of Thn. B D. Walpo e, deceaed, situate on North Illinois ter. l!i.1iuup 1,. Inquire on the pr nies. mch3 d3t STHi-;ii WAI.PÖLE. FORMALE, FINE LOTS, ri!HkK. W t.LL LOCATED BU.LDJNG LOTS IN THE I Northern p.rt of the ci'r. between Illiuoia and Tea lecsee streets, for le cheap. GOOD DIPROVKHKNTi i 4 N EXCELLENT PIECE OF PROPERTY PAYING r l. 1 4v,r cent, in reut, for sale for a short time at a luw figure. DELZELL A JONES, mch3-"U't Real Kta: Aenta. REAPERS AND MOWERS. The Improi'cd II tick eye Hcaper and Ho wer TO WHICH tVAS AWARDED TWO PREMIUMS BY INDIANA STATE FAIR,1S63. UflLL BE ON SALE AT WF.BB A HILL'S UNDER Masonic Hall. Indianapolis. 1' i no on e&tiibition. Call and e it. mch3-d.'m. HOKSKT ANDKKON, Agent. PAPER. PAPER FOR TI1E SPRING TRADE WIS.U'I'IXG FAPEK. WINDOW FAPEK. WALL FAPEK. BOXXET BOIUDS. C.VELOrES,AC, At Cincinnati Wholesale Prices, at BOWEN, STEWART & CO'S, 18 West Washington Street.

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UNITED STATUS OF AMERICA, DISTRICT OF INDIANA, SS: Whemeas, a libW of information has been filed in the District Court of tlie United States within and for the Seventh Circuit and District of Indiana, on the 29th day of February, by John Hi.:na, Esq., Attorney of the United States, for the DNtrict of Indiana, against the follow ing d-cr't'ed nNe per rent. State Stocks of tbe State of Iii'i an, au f Sauinfl Miiler; and twelve thouai.d dollars unpaid intere-t accrued tbereon, to-wit: Certificate .". 512 12H'0 690 4,(hj ;i.- 1 I1M 132 (10. i 151 2.1. 0 1540 :,iMM 16C4. fi.HO 16G3 4,1 00 Certificate No. 170... 'J0.J7.. 33... 277.. 54.. . 4t9 . 1)15.. .S.I.OfO ....4.1-00 ..lß.tHX) .. 22,01:0 ..13,0410 ... 3,000 tion, ooo SelzeJlor a x'olation of the Ibi'ow-msr act of t'orifrress, to-w it: "An act to confiscate pr"jH-riy ud f rinurrtc- j tionary purposes," appr- red AuRUst 6, 1S1; also "An J act to uppre. inurrection, t punih treason and re-j t euton, to M-ize and c mn-caie ihe pro. erty tT rebels, and f r o'Ler pupei ." approv. d July 17th, lsG2, Ld praying prov-en aeainst ail certitcate of ettxk and j money, and that the same may te condemned as for - j felted to the t nitec Mates. Now, therefore, in purtuance of the Monition under the eal of said Court to me directed and delivered, I do bereby sive public notice to all peron claiming eaii er ilicates of stock and money, or any part thereof, or in any manner interested therein, that t'iev be and appear before th said, the Dis trict Coun of the United Staie to be held at the city of j Indianapolis, iu and f r the District of Indiana, on the 16th day of March, a: 10 o'clock of the forenoon of that djy, theu and there to interpose their claims and make their allegations in that l-b!f. D. G. KOSF, C. S. Marshal. j AtteM: ; Warr J. Swira, Clerk. uircb2 Ht I 1 (No. 74.) United States Marshal's Notice. Ü.M t r. i nt a t o r a .n n h i ca , d i TKJCT OF INDIANA, SS: Kr.mii, A l.xl of information has bern filed In the District Court of the liii-ei States, w ithin and for tb F.ighth Circuit and li-strict of Indiana, on the 11th dar of February, 164, by John Hanna, V.q.t Attorney of the United f Utes for fie Di-tnct of Indiana, against the f.llowinir described pr'Jrrtr n effects of John Ziner and Phillip Leijten.-i-a;her: Seven fermentatinf tuoe, furty barrel! of wh ky, on w.oden Mill, onecopr Mill, on doubter and fixing, one boiler, on enjf ;ne and filings, five ftatids of ter. ahout t' bTel of epper diiitld whi'ky, rectifying tuh ami apparatus and the whisky therein. teizrU at tbe sail Dis net for a violation cf an "An Act to provide internal rT-tu to uprort ihe Government and to pay intrst n the public debt," apprortd July lt, 1, and praying pro- a?ain'. aid goo-is, and that the same may t-e condemned as forfeited to the United State. Now, therefore, in pursuance of the Monition under the seal of the said Court io me directed and delivered, I do hereby girt public notic to all prFms elaimin said pood. or any part therr.f, r in any manner tnterentl tlfsl'-, that tb-y h and apr-ear before the said, the District Court of the United Mates, to t held at the cltjof ladianapolis in and for the District of Indiana, on the 1st Tueday f May text, t 10 o'clock of the formoon f that day. and then and there to in'erpos their claims and Dakt their allegations in that txhalf D. G. ROSE, C. S. Marshal, By I. S. Bmiuv, Dcpaty, Attesf Watt J. ?Mmt, Gerk. febl7-dl4t PAINTING. 71 U)5G.NO. 5 EAST NRW YORK STREET. OPIMStTE CaiTrity Hiar,ts prepared to do all kinds of Hons andslfra Fainurr, Graininje and filatinj on bort notic a,ud in the verj test atyl. pervons wantinc work tn his La ar reqiastad to gir him m calL deci-dlj

AMUSEMENTS. iii;tkoimti. iiai.i,. STAGE MANAGER Mr. W. II. R1LET.

Thursday Evening, March 3d, 1864. Thtrse, the Orphan or flat ear a. OR THE MURDER BYTHE ROADSIDE. The Lottory Ticket, To-morrow, Friday, BeneSt of Mr. T. G. WHITE, SC ALK OF riUCF.S. Private Bixes.forMX people , Orchestra Seals Pr Circle and 1'arqnette GaMerr or Fam 1 Circle .. t4 00 . . T3 Cents . . iO Cents .. ii Cents Jf7AVi ixtr.i ek irgt . rrmrrcrtl TTtT-jx trice opn :rot 10 o'clock A. M. till 12 M IITr Doors open at 7 o'clock. Curtain ris at precisely. irKfrved setts retaicej onljt llib end f tLe first act. FOR SALE OR RENT. SAULT STE. MARIE, CANADA VEST. fpo PK SOLD OR LET A mt delightful re Met ce, g s'tuat on the banks of the beautiful River SuMary, aud nearly opposite "Tlie Saut," in Michigan. Ihe House i built in the comfortable Knglish style, and containa, n the ronn 1 ruor. a spscious rt.nir. ro-m, two pari rs and three tcd-rooin, w i'h an excellent k tchen and other cotiveniences attached. The upper part con- !.! of five bed-rKms, commanding tut extensive iews. A capital cellar i underneath th hou?e, and stab! nr. a Wik. l shod, .moke Lou-e. an t otbrr aeful outVuilthucs are on the premises. The whole have ben ere.td w, thin the last tbrre jears. Thre are also between -t0 and 6 acres of nt adow ant pasture land, beautifu 'ly rnameute' with evergreen, maple and other tree, imluded in tbe premise-. Price, if m11. tj.t-00; ti.tOO to be paid down, and the remain Dg f.l.OO'i in annual instalments of f 1,000 each, wi;h interest at 6 percent per annum. If let, the rent will be 350 p r annum, payable quarterly. The prem'ses are situate on the north bank of tbe beautiful nd picturesque river St, Mary, and in the health c.-t part of Upper Canada. The tceneiy fs roost lovely and rouint:c. Speckled trout and otl.er choice fish abound in the river and neighboring; streams, and good frhoo-iiifj may also be bad The property i really one of the most delightful ard valuable in North America. Ref. rences may lie made to J idjre Prince, Sault Ste. Marie, C. W., or to Col. Kobert LarkUw, Cincinnati, O., or J.W. Iotdf Fsj., Indianapolis, Indiana, c-r G. W. Alexander, F.sq , St. Ixui, Mo., V. S. Saclt Sik.Maix,C. W , Jan. 2,1-64. fehlt dlOt NOTICE. Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. rglHE 'CHAMBER t)F COM EIXE' WILL BE 1 cpned diily for business, on and after Monday, February 15th, lsC4 (Sun lays excepted) at 2 o'clock I. M. 'Chance hours from 2 o'ebick to 4 o'clock P.M. feb!7 din J. BaRNAFD. Secretary. BOOTS AND SHOES. NEW WHOLESALE BOOT & SHOE HOUSE A. C. DAWES, 1TM. N. KVANS, jAS.T.McMtl.LIN. DAWKS, EVANS & M'MILLIN, Wholesale Dealers in 71 West Washington Street, WDI 1 AI'OMS, III., A RE NOW RFCKIVINii FROM THE REST MANU2?L facturers In the country, and have in store, the f liwiu o ds to which they invite the attention of Country Merchants: 200 Ca-es of Men' and Boy i' Calf and Kip Boots. It Ml " Broitan and Plow CWs. lOO Calf. Peeped and SeeO Balmorals. l()i r Otford and Scotch Tis. nOf " ofWomcns' Ca f, Goat and Calf Pegired Footand Baln:'T4ls. 2M Cases of Women's Goat, Kid and Morocco Mk. Welt Bo'.ts and Balmorals. 2o; Cases Women's lreeCong Gaiters. ÖOO of Misse', Children's, Roy' and Touth' Shoes of all kind, Mzes, varieties aud styles, suitable for Indiana and Illinois tra- e. Having made our purchases lief ore tbe late advance, we feel assured in saying we can offer superior inducements to any House in tbe West. We cordis ly invite ou to examine our stock before makioir purchases. tif Prompt attention paid to orders. Lxtra ites always on hmd. DAWKS. KVANS A McMILLlN. feblT DRY COODS. S B Ä Ü A ö u 0 a m H Hi EH Ö M CO Ul H 13 Q W H - ö I a co 6 A 0 P n h i REMOVALS. RK3IO V AL. WE H4VC REMOVED FUOH SO. i ASD 77 VTr' Waabiagtoa uett, bo tbe n-w aixl commudioos roc.ni, ?te. 42 Autla .nerlsllasn Htreel, . . In Jtcbnull's Bl"ck, where we offer to the trade a foil and well se ected Mck of tipl and Fancy Dry Goods, otiun. c, safhci-nl ia quantity mmd variety to check tbe entire mnsorarMlua of any buyer, a od at prices snii'. passed in tbe West. MerchaotswUI 2nd it to their advanta toexamlDo ear stack sad price before parch tnx elsewhere. ft,-ltn CWKvSLAND PKK.

DRY GOODS.

NEW FANCY SPRING SCC 1001 roR 1 S S -S:, XIHUME, LORD & CO'S., 26 and 2S West Washington St. UTE ARK NOW RFCFtTlNi; OUR NEW 5rRI5G S:ylea of La 'ies' Fancy Dress G ods, comprUiat: 3Ioirc Antiques, PUin an! Fancy, Extra Klesnt. Silks, Rich Fancy, Silks, Rich Plaid. Silks, PI ain Black, All Widths and Qmlities. Plain Silks and Satins New Stjles for Party Dre-se. Rcpt Silks, Corded Silks, Seeded Silks, D uMed FaceJ, ery fiiie 3Iourning Silk, Poul de Soie, PI tin and Figured. Poil de Chevers, (Full lit;e. S Ik S'lipes,) m letter?. Talle! a de Anise, Corded Pique, Plain Black Taffetas, Chene Taffetas, Alpacas, Full line, all grades. Poplins, Friuceu Alice, Brocade, and Liht French. 31ohairs, Challis, Princes Alice Poulards, Otoiiiaiis Orpmidci, Jackonels, Caiiibiio, Cliiiitzes l'rliits, mitist ins, Ac., Ac WINES, LIQUORS, &C. HAHN & ROSE, No. 11 South Meridian Street, STATE SCXTI.UL ISUILDIXG, ( WUOLFSALK DiCALLRS IX' Foreign and Domestic TTT I i 0Ü0B8 CIGARS, TOBACCO, &C. VTe catl particular attertn t ar Cn assortrne&t of (euaine imported AUo our Large FMock of OLD BOURBON WHISKY AND TOBACCO, All bongbt txf re tie rie, which ei.aViet us to eell the very lowest price. We innte Ialer to esamlne oar stock before furchasing elesrbre. II All V A: KOSE. JsnS-dftai ASTROLOGY. 5 ASTEOLOOY! 5 GO AND SEK TÜR 5ATTK tL GIFTED AfTEOLOi; K, ITfesoT M'OXALIDCbV. He lathe emh i f tbe seutb a-t. Bta with eatoral g ft, he see irAo futorl'y w.th such eta-tess tbat i 1 really tonikbii lie is the bor.a f.de Attrotoerer of the Maeteetith Oi.tury. With the ;1 of Beic alaae azd the card of the eminent Jreix Sorte res. Madam Inorasaod. be can tell everyth ng that ts still wrapt ta oMtrjon- He wilt tetl tboe who (ront bha who tbey wUl anarry, tbe eemtjer of chi dreo they win base, aM the ler gth of their ÜTes for a few days. Only ttm9 consnit the Astrulogiit. at Xo. S Ki otaeky aet. first kouv b!ow tbe Rank. fprn. wih'ng tocoBnlt tbe profeseor by letter can un so cy iTat.Tg ar.j a?e, c mieixn, arfl the mtith they were horn in, er lour g the lew of $1, ma4 m, M M mm m (V. a . m V Mimf. A d4r(k fVnj 149 lrdtanTM1Ua lk ar i...a as s tic oi couMma icvn 91 fetSS-dlra. WATiTED. AGENTS WANTED. WASTtD, AGE3TT ntOM tTJ TO 1M FT Mooih. Tbe l'rued5uteafwicgiarLmCa. pany want active Agent (mils or female) ta evry CoDty to ao4icit order It tboir sew Sit Mackiske, witb gaace. screw driver uA extra needles, or gir Um ctmim5Jon. For particulars, terms. Ac. skUmw a sunn and . l. dree CHakLaua WKkBT. Oolaatd. iHtto, fcb2a-!Jw Oeijeral A(f&t fortaUfi!t4 CUUa.

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