The Express.
London, England, 1861-12-28 00:00:00

MS QUAITION
_..?P !MAMMY IN ru

CONGRESS.

Ia the sitting of the Route of Representatives at
Weighbates ea the 12th Mr. Blair (rep.), of Mo., celled
&Monk= to Mr. Lovejoy's reeolutioc having a view the ro-
motion el • part of General Halleck's general order relo-
tin to fugitive slaves. The resolution had been laid ca the
table, and related to the following order :
Mia
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"Bea F. 111.Z.emu D
leina
`r My deer Coiawd.-- ofeth Whig ik Net re- ,
salved. Old. Ns. 3 was, ion ay Wad, clearly. a military
asesseity. llasetleoriesd black or white, free or
slave, must be kept out of our camps, unless we are wil-
ing to publish to the enemy everything we do ar intend
to do. It was a military and not a political order. lam
ready to carry out any lawful instrection in regard to
fogitln slava which my superiors may give me, and to
same any laws which Comma may pees ; but I cannot
make law, and will not violate dL You know my private
opinion on the policy of coafineting the slave property of
rebels is areas. If Congrem should pan it you may be cer-
tain that I shall enforce it. Perhaps my policy as to the
treatment of rebels and their property no as well set out in
ceder No. 13, bend the day before your letter was writtes,
as I could now describe it.— Yours tnly,
' H. W. Hau.nct."
Mr. Lovejoy (rep.), of lit, in explanation said, in intro.
lacing his resolution be of course did not desire to revoke
as order that General Nalleck dad not mean to make. He
would my, is regard to himself and others, that an attempt
bad been. made to convey the impisenoo that he and
others designed to support the war, not against the
rebellion, bet against slavery. He believed in taking
away all the property of rebels and emancipating their
slaves as the met efficient means of suppressing
the rebellion. 011enre might differ from bun an to the
but while he was eon in favour of carrying on the war for
the specific and ultimate purposes of liberating Unsling, be
waa avian carrying it M leas &very. Be wee
opposed to the sway ham el ratahre, sad to
giving onion M throw Ink on t air menace those who din
sired to imp% whether free or slave, black or white. Con-
sequeatly„ be Oeeilit say orders given to drive slaves
bask late the beads of semerieeistu or into the bonds
of storeheldera, whether loyal or rest, I. be contrary to
sewed **is we/Omen She war and suppresdeg the retel-
l's& la essielalea he said if say &ebbe= created to dot
Amply foe thepurpees of lotuses( Netts' slaves, he bad
oily to remark that the army would be @Woofer without
theca.

The beesethis Reseeded M the esesideratioo of the special
ceder, via :—The varies, eternities& tavolving the. quae.
lies of mosesipseing the held as slaves by rebels
Yr. /Riot (rep.), of Isa, preessited I. explain sad sir
Leos his essslsti dosieri g that " the weir has baits oiled
the el the rebsfls. sad the rrestablislanost
of the nelksely el the Rational sesetitsties set the
kwo sear the mike resit of our common country, and ad-
! rids Yet reabsy ceders for the snancipatioe of the
dams be used whenever the male shall avail Sc weaken the
pawed the solids in arms, or in sestammeg the =Whig
power of the loyal farces." Shivery, he argued, wee at ths
rest dthe rebellion, and therefore was= oadsw. There we
se doubt Mel mss shoed be protected because it
be urimiesill OM the ems who stood sp for the right
that'll be( bad dose to their heads This w
had boss milled an anti-davery war • it was no
dung. Though slavery caused it, and though by it day
misht be overthrown at remand, movertleolem,
object oldie war win Is mew the rightful maimed
Ides gmemorwast eats psi deareiremes. Meepolte
deaertion of the (ready mould about Poet Royal, and is
reply to his own qoestMs, what ought lobe done ? add :
Let our military oomessedeis orpsise a bursas at agricul-
ture; let the black heads gather the whol. Maphe ; let the
shackles fall off the limbo this employed. Ris resolutions,
he add, did sot determise what the future woe to be. Let us
MS do the work put epos as, ands/ter that the war will
he rupee to ye. As ear army edema:es the t
of the former order of thinp would be apparent. Already
• patellae has bees put in operation at Port Royal ; mos
the seimeddeese sad church would follow, mad eves is the
Palmetto Slate the bomber of our commis country will
wave over the lead of the free. Trauma will be stip-
em-asscl, the rebellion overcome, sod the rightful
authority of the laws sad the 001311titUtiOU /13160iiiINKI. Is
the came of his remarks he said Simon Ciuuerou had done
one is three mouths to raise his same higher
arsoeg man sad the lovers of freedom, and as an opposer of
rebellion and treason, thus during all his previous long
weer in public life. Towards the conslusion of his lengthy
mpunitat, he said it was time there was • detail., policy os
this subject of ormilmatios, sad be farther conteutled that
as slavery was at the mot of this treason it should be eradi-
cated, and quoted authorities to show that by the law of
teatime ft wee cempelest and right to pursue the wens
which his raeoletiose indicate.

Mr. Steele (opp.) of New York, seid—The gentleman
from Narsehneetts assaid is broad terms that slavery
was the COMM of this war. Now, I deny that slavery is
the mane of the war, *ad I assert that the unnecessary
agitation of the slavery quart* is the true muse el tine
war. I propos to test the gentleman's argument by the
message of the President, from which he (Eliot) himself
has read • quotation. I supper that the questioo of
loyalty is nut to hi settled now by those who are
opposed to the agitation of slavery sod those who are in
favour of it, but by slain who is reedy to stand by the
(overalls*** the beer el its seed. That, I suppose, is
sow the WI *loyalty. It was very bad rate on the
part ef the gentleman to tuidertake to tear open those
sores end haduos ups the boor al the most esepoesi.
Ule legislative body the world ever saw a political discus-
siee. I do set supper that we shell epee sia all the
quarices to hi dammed Isere. bat I hope, neverthe-
less, we may damn all important quirk es in •
spirit of liberality, aid with • desire to do equal jus-
tice to those who oppose our views as well as to those
who oefesside is the The gentleman from Nowlin-
setts read a seeker* from the President's recent Message
to Use two beam of Care* sod I desire to retinue
the same sentence, left selthished by him. He should
have added :—** We mast not be in baste in dete
that these radical, extreme measures, which ma;msti2
the loyal as well 11/ tbe disloyal, are indispensable."
Now, Ir, while I subscribe to the sentiments that the
Una most be preserved, sad beer all indispensable
mesas must be employed, I an ready to go as far as any
geelleman co Ike other side of the boom in support of that
sentiment. lam ready to steed by it to the Ls drop of
my blood, aid to my last breath. I Inist that all who lore
serreesd see have just as loyal hearts as those who apt on
the other side of the hoes. I apprehend that the gentle-
maa from Nemeshmers will not be able to find is the
Presideas Memo say other sentence that by remotest
implication esa be construed to mean that the President
desires any legislative at all upon this subject, but rather
that it may be construed that the President deprecates the
idea el say legislation upon this vexed question at this
time. Now, that is the oily ewNses ii the Nooses by
which the President weld he apse* by any implication
to intimate to this bore that be denims any legialstioe
whatever upon this subjest. It Gamer be aspired that we
of thus house ma enter aro the private councils of the Presi•
dent sad the areal commander.is-chief of the army. They
ksow, no doer, what they are doing with the oat army now
in the Sold. Weds not ; arid if we did, then I say, for letting
us
know It, the President ought to be placed in the same
place that ethers have bees placed who have been denied
the writ el baba «arm Is the house with* to take
the respossilidity ef lorresieg the difficulties of the Presi-
ded* sod hie general-isubief beyond mesa, throwing us
their heeds awn of Shoes fugitive slaves At the extra
seas ef I andentood the pothers from Peas-
sylvenis (lir. 'irer) to etre on thus door that the mili-
tary powered the governneint not only had all the power
esetempleted by this resolution, but a great deal more ; and
MOWN, very promiseat member of thi, house, from Massa-
chusetts, who is drop la the coefidence of the admioistrotlon
sad (or remost ef this =witty, voted spinet the coeds*
tier laws of the errs area rie the ground, as stated by
him, that it was unneeessery, that all the power that was
needed for such • purpose already belonged to the radi-
an, power of the constry and that such fresh power
se contemplated by that bill was calculated to stir up
espy feelings, and 'sedum implement agitation through.
oat the conatry. If, therefore, the President sod the
authorities have alre:dv the power on thissubject that
they seed, and mere, it is hardly worth while for us here
to undertake the astral of the army of the United
Prefer, or direct the Conimeader-io-Chief what he shall
do. It is very evident that the President experience
ranch difficulty with these Toomey slaves, when he
suggests to Congress that we should make some provi-
sos, not only for the runaway slaves, but for those free
blacks who are willing to go from among us. The gentle-
maa from Mosachuarts seemed willing to leave to

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