Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-12-12
CONGRESSIONAL
WssHISeTos, Dec. H.

7fassrs. aaia and Sumner presented pc
.;,iops protesting against the aeiion
Il il,e dviEorr Board Of the navy
1Toqrrs. King, Fomerey and Howard
aeetsa petitions in fayOr Of the genera
( banErlr. aet. q ,.v
5ls. Browning introduced bill. t
ma the Get establishing The Territorial
sent of Otaa, End to facilitate tn
..i- son q Justice N said territory
a5niaistrfs ES51cialJT o'nmltiee: te.pr..i
Referred TO the i've frOl- :.
A message was re- ste o. thanA-
dent recommending q " deter.
LieuteuautGeo W. Morris, l5e =
mined valoF and heqoism he dis Hsyed =;
defense of the sloop-of-war Cum oerla9u,
against the rebel irouaelad Merima alsO
recommending a vote Of thanks TO Llel'-
tenant Geo. l. Worden, for the skill and
gallantry exhited by him in the battle be-
] tween the Monitor end the rebel steame T
| Merimac. Reported to Naval Committee.
a communication was also received
| from the President answering resolution
of the Senate calling for information and
evidence relative TO the Indian barbarities
in Minnesota. Ordered printed.
The resolution relative to the arbitrary
/ arrests of certain citizens Of Delaware
was taken up.
Mr.. Morrell contended that the resolu-
| tion, as it now stood, was not a mere reso-
luton of inquiry, but a charge against
| the Government, and an Indictment against
| President Lincoln, and he Mr. Morrell)
would vote for no such resolution He
| claimed that in this state of war and re-
belliOn, with the land full of traitors and
! spies, the COmmander-in-Chief has the
I right to arrest such men. No one, not
even the Senator from Delaware (Mr
/ Salisbury has claimed that these men
were loyal There had been many ar
rests made, and the proper presumption
| is that the President has been arrest
| ing guilty men and simply doing his duty.
| He (Lineoln) ought to do it. 1t will not
do to pretend that a whole State and all
! its people are loyal. 1t is known that the
State Of Kentucky has been but q nest Of
traitors. Three ont Of four of the able
bodied men of Kentucky have gone to
rebellion and nobody is left there but old
women. % Yet the Senator from Ken
lucky (POwell) asks for eommisseration
for these men. That Senator (Powell)
had denounced the Government from the
beginning, the same as his colleague, who
followed the logical result of his reasoning
and had gone into the rebel army. But
not single word does that Senator Pow
ell offer against the rebels, and reioices
over the recent elections and says the lion
Democracy are rebuking this admins
tration.
Well, every rebel throughout rebeldom
rejOices in the same way, it is supposed.
There will be a peace party in the North
that viii force this Government into an
inglorious peace, and that party encour-
aged JEFF. Davis and foreign countries in
their schemes of Intervention. There
ought to be some proof that these men
we're loyal
Mr.. MOrrell eOntended that there was no
ground for complaint; that men were az
rested on suspicion. Men were always
arrested on suspicion of crime.
Mr. Wright moved to amend the resolu-
ton so as to make the call upon the Presi-
dent, instead of upon the Secretary of
War. He said he knew no man was per-
mitted to live in the South who had any
sympathy with the North; he would like
to see some of the spirit that was shown
by Stonewall jackson when he found AZ
of his men skeddadling from the battle
He marched them to the front of the reRi-
ment and had every man of them shot
Instead of this we have propositions for
conventions, sc.
He Wright would stand by the Gov
ernment and the President. He would
have the power of the Government felt by
every traitor, North or South.
Mr.. Bayard argued at some length to
shUU thut the uffiIirs Of the State of Ken
tucky had nothing whatever to do with the
State Of Delaware, and that true loyalty 10
the country did not imply loyalty to any
singleindiyidual. If this is a free country
the people in it certainly have a right to
inquire into the acts Of the President
Mr.. Powell said he had said the Presi-
dent had violated the Constitution, and he
was ready to prove it. He deied the SEN
ator from Maine, or any Senator on this
floor, to the lists on this question.
He denied that three out four of the peo-
pie of the State Of Kentucky were in the
rebel army; three-fOurths of the people in
that State are not in arms at all, and he
believed there were more men il the Union
army than in the rebel army. He Mr.
POwell) wanted to indugle IN no PERSONAL
ties with any Senator here, as there was
a way TO settle personal matters elsewhere.
He wanted Senators to meet his argu-
ments fairly He did not believe this
Union could ever be restored by the force
Of arms, therefore he had opposed the war
and should continue to oppose it. He was
in favor Of the convention proposed by
his colleague, ,DaYis.) He should also
vote for an armistice while that eonYen-
| tion should continue to be in session. He
contended that President Lincoln had vio-
lated the Constitution in enlarging the
regular army; in suspending the writ of
habeas corpus in arresting citizens; in
interfering with the freedom of the press,
and in his recent proclamation.
Mr.. Fessendon was willing to admit that
some things had been done apparently
without law.
| The cry the Country was in danger"
came always from papers sympathizing
with the rebellion Many things may be
and must be done in times like these
which ordinarily could not be allowed
Does anybody doubt the patriotism of the
| President of the United States? Does any
one pretend that he has not done what he
/ thought was best to suppress this rebellion
and preserve the country, or that he has
/ violated the rights of any citizen
/ GNo adiouru 10 nnt raaaizA1 - y 11.1
/ HOUSE.
Mr.. Roscoe Conkling asked leave to re-
port a bill to establish a uniform system of
bankruptcy, and desired day should be
| assigned for its consideration.
The Speaker reminded the gentleman