Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-10-11
caNerpRRarF CONGRESS.


concerning persons holding commissions, an
employed as clerks in the departments, ETC. to
gether with the Information called for by th
{ same Laid on the table
Mr Hill, from the committee on judiciary, re
ported bill to establish a court fox the iuvestI
CATION Of claims against the government
Placed on the calendar and ordered to be print
ed
f Dir. Ssmmes, from the Judiciary committee, t,
! which was referred a resolution in reference Il
the question Of IetsistiOn uuder Lineons lat,
proclamation Of emancipation, presented the fol
lowing as the repozt generally eoncUrred in BY
the COMMITTEES: -. ..
WHEREAS, these States, exercising riebt
coDsecrsted by the blood Of our revolutionary
toTetathers, and recognized as Fundamental in
the American system of government, which is
based on the consent Of the governed, dissolved
the compact which united them to the \ Jrthern
Safes and withdrew from the Uuiou created by
tue Federal Constitution and whereas, the gov
ernment Of the United States, repudisting the
principle on which It's founders, in their solemn
appeal to the civiliz d world, justified the Amer
lean revolution, commenced tho present war to
suhjugate and ensave these Sts tes, under the
preteIt Of repressing rebellion and restoring the
| UnioDi aud whereas, in the prosecution Of the
ar tor the past seventeen months the rights &C
corded 90 belligerents by the ussges of civilized
AiotAbAlh DcoAi etNtUuolF QcuitQ 70 III
zels of these States, except in cases where the
same have been extorted by the apprehension of
retaliation aud by the adverse fortune Of the
l wal and whereas, from the commencement
OF this unhOly invasion to the present M
ment the invaders have inflicted inhuman mis-
/ cries on the people Of these States, exacling
| OF them reasonable osths, sUbjeering un-
| armed cltlzsns, women and children, 30 confsea-
/ ton, banishment and Imprisonment burning
1 fharr Htraf A.
deTing private property, numbering men for pre-
| tended Otfeases, encouraging the abduction Of
slaves by government officials and at govern
/ ment exPeuse, promoting servile instruction
! By tsmpenng with slaves and protecting them
IN resisting their masters, stealing works of art
and destroying public libraries encouraging
and inviting brutal sOldiery to commit out
lsges or women by the unrsbuked orders of
military commanders, and attempting TO ruin
cities BY filling up the entrance to their harbors
with stone; and whereas, in the same spirit of
barbarous feTocity the government of the Uni
ted States enacted q law entitled can act TO
suppress instruction AMI to prevent treason
aud rebellion TO seize and couhScate the proper
~ OF reoels, and for other purposes and has
announced by proclamation issued by Abra-
ham Lincoln. the President thereof, that in pur
snsGee Of said law, "0n the lst day of January
1853, all persons held as slaves within any
~tate or dosigneted part of a State, the people
whereof shall be in rebellion against the Uni
ted States, shall be thencefoTwsTd and forever
free" and has hereby made manifest that the
conflict has ceased to DO a war as recognized
among civilized nations; and on the part OF the
eaemy has become an invasion of an organized
horde Of murdeTers ana plunderers breathing
hatred and revenge for the numerous defeats
sustained on legitimate battle fields, and dessr-
mlued If possible to exterminste the loyal pop
ulstOn OF these States, to transfer thsr property
to their enemies, and to emanc'p2te their slaves
with the strocious design Of adding servile in
suTTectOn and the massacre Of families to the
calamities Of war; and whereas, justice aud
humanity require this government to endesvor
to repress the awlsss practice and designs Of
the enemy by infictng severe resributiOn
Therefore,
The Congress Of the Confederate States do en-,
act TuAt ON and after the Ist day Of January,
1868, sll commissioned and nOn-commissioned
officers Of the enemy, except as hereinafter
mentioned, when captured. shall be imprisoned
at hard labor, until the termination of the war,
or until the repeal IF the act of the United
S ates, hsreiubsfors recited, and until otherwise
determined by the President.
81 Every person who shsll act as a commis-
stoned or nOn-c0mUiissioned officer, command
iag negroes OF mnlsttOes against the Cenieder-
5te States, or who shall arm, organize, train or
prepare negroes or mulattoes for military ser
vice, or aid them in any military enterprise
against the Confederate States, shall, If cap
tured suffer death
3 Every commissioned or nOR-commissioned |
officer Of the enemy who shall incite slaves 20 re-
bellou, OF pretend to give them freedom under |
the aforementioned sct of Congress and procla |
nation, by sbducting them or causing them TO |
he abducted, or inducing them to abscOnd, shall /
if sp'nred, suffer death
/. That every person charged with su offsnse /
under this set shall be tried by such military /
court as the President shall direct, and after 1
conviction, the President may commute the /
punishment or pardon uucOnditiOnally or on !
such terms IS he may see fit
5, That the President Is hereby authorized 70 /
resort to such other retslistOry measures as 10 |
bis judgment may be best calculated to repress |
the atrocities of the enemy.
Mr. PRelan, from the same committee, sub 4
mitted the following as the minority report on \
the same subject:
l. That if any person, singly or in organized 1
bodies, shall, under the pretenc8 of wsging war,
kill OF maim, OF in any wise injure the person of
any unaTmed citizen Of the Confederate States,
" shall destroy, or seize, or damage the prop
erty, or invade tb6 house or dOmicil or insult !
the family Of such unarmed ci izen; or shall
persuade or force any slave to abandon his
owner, or SHALL by word or set, counsel or incite
10 servIle insunection, within the limits of the
Confederate Ststes-all such persons, If captured
Oy the forces Of the Confederate States, shall be
treated criminals, aud not as prisoners of war.
and shall Do tried by military court, and, on
conviction, suffer death.
.. That every person pretending to be e
soldier or an officer OF the United States, who
hall be captured on the soil of the Confederate
States after the lst day Of January, 1863, shah
be presumed 20 have entered the territory of the
Confederate States with intent TO incite insur-
-ectiOn and sbet murder and, unless satisfsc-
Ory proof be sddUced 20 the contrary, before the
military court before which the trial shall be had,
shall suffer death This section shall continue
n force until the proclamation issued by Abra-
lsm Lincoln, dated at Washington on the 22d
If September, 1862, shall be rescinded, and the
policy therein announced shah be abandoned,
lnd no longer. Is
Mr.. Hill said he considered the proclamation
IF the Preside nt of the United States as mere
'rItiUH tHtmeH of no practical effect and he
i3ub5ed whether 1t was necessary to notice it
1t all.
Mr. Hill, from the same committee, presented
.he following Joint resolution in relation to the
uture prosecution Of war within the United
States in connection with the other reports
Iusulted and oppressed by a long train Of [
evils, and mensced by future peril under the I
government of the United States, the separate
,OyeFegnties of the States, constituting the Con-
federste States Of America, dissolved the polii-
cal connection existing between themselves and
he other sOvereignties composing the United
States, and organized distinct Confederation. i
pom its formation a war most foul and uPnstu- j
raj was inaugursted for its destruction by the {
government from which we had separated, and q
lpOn the pretext that the government organized I
md thus created was not the choice and Offering
If the people ihhsbiting said States; but was q 4
iespotism erected by daring and ambitious dem {
sgegueS by whom the voice of the mass of cur
population was silenced, and their efforts to
preserve the Federal Union parslyzsd aud sup
pressed For nearly two years has this inhuman &
md unholy crusade heen wsged against u.s. I
Conscious Of the unity of all classes of our peo