The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-01-25

martIy TO try ana punish an eooCctvoo3o o0oooeo
shich any Of them DAY comntl You have aloo
md have provided for ths capture and conden.
nation % he public uss Of tAe enemy's property
laksn on The high seas, and Of such public stores
Df she enemy - may be taken in his camps,
Towns, forts or magazines; and By your lats ia
Lutte which cannot agree With ny ffiend from
Indiana nr. Julianl vas alegislative bluudss--
you have provided for The con6scatsoa Of I'll
property used BY it owners consent in cid Of
this rebellion, and for The liberation d all slaves
used ia the military service Of shs rsbsls By con-
sent Of their masters. You have also appecpri.
ated $500, 000, 600 to support yosr Army and
Navy, but not the means 70 supply the money.
That, sir, 10 about the sum total Of yeur egisla-
ton far the suppression Of this gigantic rebel
lion. as
Il not further legislation needfui TO sustain
the credit and supply the Treasury Of the coun-
try! In my judgment, Congress should mot on
" authorize . limited amount Of demand Treas
ury notes, as contemplated by one Of your bills
reported by the painstaking aud iaborious
Committee Of Ways and Means. but should Al
90 authorize an additional loan fully equal to
the public wants, and provide for the prompt
payments Of the interest upon it, loan, and the
redemption Of its demand aud matured notes,
by laying direct and indirect taxes, ~ recon-
mended BY this resolution, fully adequate to
that end. but submit that aftsr No shall
have thus legislsted, we should 60 further
We should by law provide for the con6scstion
to public use and to the support Of the Govern
ment, Of all property Of ell who shall, after
your enactment, engage in this rebellion, their
aiders and abettors. do not stop to further
argue the constitutional power Of Congress, SO
to legislate, for on that question q majority Of
this House are concluded by the enactment Of
the confscation act Of last session. Why should
not this legislation be extended 50 % to author
Ire tie seizure and connscstion to the public
use of all the property, real and personal, mon
eys, goods, stocks, credits, and effects Of these
rebel enemies, their Aidsrs and sbettors, where
ever found, who shall persist in the rebellionf
ment of strength. Why should not the $780,
600, 900 worth Of cotton, corn, rice, sugar, and
tobacco now possessed by the enemy. and to
them means of Subsistence and . basis Of
credit, be declared forfeited by law, and SUBJ
ject to seisurs and confscation by your courts
to the public uses Why should not the fertile
lands Of the enemy, IS fast IS they are wrested
from them by our arms, be by law subjected to
the occupancy Of loyal citizens, that by honest
culture they may be made to yield their annual
tribute to the national Treasury? And above
all, sir, why should not the four millions Of
slaves held by these rebels, and by whose un-
paid toll this rebellion waged by half million
traitors in arms is sustained, be by . law Of
Congress declared freemen, and forever released
from their unwilling servitude?
The loyal citizens upon the summons of the
President, and by authority Of your law, rush
ed six hundred thousand strong to the rescue
Of the Government and the snppressionsof this
.
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uou oessing upon tneir going, anu await Win
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save 70 any extent the precious lives OF your
solciers' every man mere, trust, would be
LOT II.
propose the conhecatl0n OF enemy property
W concentration 10 your courts ana the forcioIe
prevents 'ieFm Iv.VRai .eonstltatlonal restraint
attainder shall be passedy" / agree 10 that:
sropose no bill of nttainder. am no advocate
Of that "transcendent power of Parliament
OF which Coke speaks, and by which, without
Judicial trial, man may be attainted even
after he is dead. Does some one cite the limi.
tation Of the Constitution upon your power "a
punish tressons Iagree.that by that Limitation
your power to punish this great crime is limited
to the lie Of the offender, and that you cannot.
by your statute, attaint the blood Of his chill
dren. propose, sir, to deal only with living
traitors; to confscate their property, and liber.
ate their slaves. Their slaves are naturalborn
citizens, and the country has the right to their
services.
Pass your laws liberating the 4, 900, 900 slaves
held by the rebels. and thereby break every TN.
just yoke in that rebel region and let the CD.
pressed go free, in Obedience to that command
which mes to US as voice out of heaven,
"prociaim liberty throughout all the land, to ali
the Inhabitants thereof" Do you say this is fa.
naticism! Do you say God was fanatic when
ne commanded 1t, and that the fathers of the
Republic we're fanatics when they adopted it a.
the sign under which they should conquer. and
burned it With FIRE into the very bell whose iron
' .as :;
=, Gnu" anu ~ YOU say We nave not the constitution.
:, pu"e. W ensct sucn law Why not? Be.
faa YOU ~ .ne save Is the rebels property.
: cannot adm's tnat put, conceding 1t for the
ma,I -. ,:s ue "Us '0lleised Ms property, 40
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i;1s ~ fo !SIr NV ao'oonseo sne taking Of his
.;ob, =. LUZ ns sw1 %' sna tne gahows! 10 bis
go sns ~ .. u.s ssve, 1nicn came by wrong, more
a;s, asS ~. n's leI. 20 ms Ire, which is the
gut VI uod has the rebel special rights and
, ~ OF property In bis slave which you
~ ~. sccoio 70 the ioysi c'tixenY Are you
aos Aouu. 70 asser. your power to take the pro-
perry o' 'ne true ana loyal citizen BY taxation,
n no, s,oa ' heeGea LOT sne public defensei