The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1862-05-16


to the pneding bill Mr. Sherman pro.
cccdcd to speak more particularly Of hi.
substitute.
Tho power 10 seize the property OF an
enemy is us plain and pOlrn os the
power to take his life. You can seize the
property Of public enemy without roine
thr,ugh the Ordinary prccotp of law
The Constitution declares that a mar
shall not De deprived Of his life, liberty, OF
property without Cue process Of law ant
yet without due process of law YOU arm ,
regiment TO kill him. You may, in III,
me way, In pursIig wal
seize upon his property. The sehu
of the property is just as much an act o
war as the taking Of life, and is iustifs,
by the same constitutional rower b.,
lievc oven my friend from Kentucky Mr.
Davisl has not questioned this. | hav,
not heard il questioned by any gentleman
except perhaps by the Senator IRON Penn
Mr.. Corwan, aud | believe he does mol
question the power ofthc Government IN
prosecuting war, either foreign or 4
civil war, to seize the property Of an enc.
my in arms against the Government. Il
is true he says Il cannot be sold so as tc
deprive the heirs of the title; hut hc does
not deny the right and the duty Of the cx.
ecutlve authority TO seize the property OF
tho rebels aud hold II for certain time
and Fer certain purposes.
Our space will not permit us to do more
than to give Dir. Sherman's remarks on
the 9th and last section, Of bis proposed
substitute:
The 9th section, have no doub, many
Senators will think very harsh, bu, Lt.
licvc il is important. II provides;
"Thut the President is hereby author
lied by proclamation TO call upon all in.
h0bitants within any State whose officer.
and State organization shall still be in
rebellion pgninst the United States after
60 duys from the passage of this act to
aid aud assist IN supprcsSiug ,uch rebel.
lion, and ull persons so aiding or assisting
the United States, who under the laws ol
such State, owe service or labor, or money
or property TO any per Oh lyying wal
against the United States, or hidirr ur
a,si III 9Th ncm'o givlngt ilant
comfort, shall be forever discharged from
such obligation, any law or custom in
such State to the contrary notwitllstand
ing; and the President IL authorized 10
employ, arm and equip such loyal inhsbi-
tanis as he may deem advantage tus to
public service"
The proposition is simply that II, after
sixty days, this rebellion is not subdued or
II shall be degcn, rated into a guerrilla
warlore aud our loyal armies shalt driven
from that country by the climate, rather
than allow this rebellion To succeed, ]
would arm the slaves of The rebels with.
out hesitation. would use all the Iowa
inhabl ltants of that region to put down
the r,bellion; but would not do il cxcept
os deInfer, a last resort.
bell We the white men of this country
are able to subdue it; but ] would arm the
President with the power, in any given
district, county, State, or place where he
thought the interests of tue service re-
quire il, to tnpIoy as oborcrs, and to arm
and equip any loyal inhabitants who
would aid N putting down tho rebellion.
IL may seem harsh; but sir, we send our
b others, we send our lrieEds, we send
our dearest relations, we send all those
who are bound to us by the most cndeur-
ing ties, there to risk their ly.s TO s,b-
due this rebellion.
When there is already in that region of
country class ofinhabtants " no are l,y.
al by necessity, who have proven them
selves loyal in every case, sec nc reason
why II this rebellion is to be prosecuted
TO It's bitter end, they may not properly bo
armed IN order to dubduc it, Whcn we
are all risking so much, do not see Why
we should not avail ourselves of every
means which the position of the enemy,
which their weakness aflores, in order 10
subIuc the rebellion.