Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1862-10-15
LFrOm the Baltimore SUM

We find in our exchanges the following
extracts from the Richmond papers, the
dates being as late as the 4th instant.
PRoCEEDGNGs OF THE REBEL CONGRESS -
THREATENED RETALIATION.
In the Senate at Richmond, Oct, lst,
Mr.. Semmes, from the judiciary committed
TO which was referred a resolution in ref
eIence to the questions of retaliation un'
der President Lincolns late proclamation
OF emancipation, presented the followi ng
as the report genarally concurred in by
the committees:
"Whereas these States, exercising q
right consecrated by the blood OF our rev.
olutionary forefathers, and recognized as
fundamental in the American system of
government, which is based on the con =
sent Of the governed, dissolved the cons
pact which united them to the Northern
States and withdrew from the Union Gre,
ated by the Federal Constitution and
whereas the government of tbs United
States, repudiating the principle on which
its founders, in their solemn appeal to the
civilized world, justified the American
revolution, commenced the present war
TO subjugate and enslave these States un-
der the pretext of repressing rebellion
and restoring the Union and whereas, in
the prosecution of the war for tho past
seventeen months, the rights accorded TO
belligerents by the usage of civilized ma
tions have been studiously denied toIhe
citizens Of these States, except in cases
where the same have been extorted by the
apprehension Of retaliation and by the ad.
verse fortune of the war and whereas
from the commencement of this unholy
invasion to the present moment the inva-
ders have inflicted iphuman miseries on
tho people of these States, exacting of
them reasonable oaths, subjecting un-
armed citizens, women and children to
conliscation, Punishment and imprison.
ment burning their dwelling houses, raw
aging the land, plundering private prop.
erty, numbering men for pretended often.
ses. encouraging the abduction OF slaves by
government officials and at government
expense; promoting servile Instruction
by tampering with slaves and protecting
them in resisting their masters. stealing
works OF art and destroying public librar.
les, encouraging a brutal soldiery to COM
nit ontrages on women by the unrebuked
orders OF military commanders, and at
tempting to ruin cities by filling up the
entrance to their harbors with stone.
Ana whereas, in the same spiri. of
barbarous ferocity, the government ofthe
United States enacted law entitled "An
act to suppress insurrection and 10 pre-
vent treason and rebellion, to seize and
confscate the property of rebels, and for
Other purposes" and has announced nv n
proclamation issued by Abraham Lincoln
the President thereof that, in pursuance
of said law, 'on the LIST day of January
1868, all persons held as slaves within any
State or designated part of a State, the
people whereof shall be in rebellion ar-
ainst the United States, shall be thence,
forward and forever free,' and has thereby
made manifest that the conflict has ceased
to be a war as recognized among civilized
nations, and on the part of the enemy
has become an invasion of an organized
horde Of murderers and plunderers,
breathing hatred and revenge for the nu.
merous defeats sustained on legitimate
battle fields, and determined if possible, TO
ex'erminate she loyal population Of there
osstes to transfer their property totheir
enemies, and to emanclpate their slaves
win the atroclous design of adding ser,
we lnsurrecticn aud the massacre Of fam.
ines TO the calamitiss Of war; and whereas