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

Wherefore tie Congress Of tie Confederate
States Of America do enact, |. That on and
after the lst day of next January, lSG3,al
commissioned and non -commissioned o.
fcers of the enemy, except as herinafteT
mentioned, when captured, shall be i'm
prisoned at hard labor, or otherwise put
at hard labor. until the termination of the
war or until the repeal OF the act of Con-
g?ess of the United States hereintoiore res
cited, aud until otherwise determined by
the President.
"2. Every white person who shall act
as q commissioned or non, commissioned
officer, commanding negroes or mulattoes
against the Confederate States, or who
shall arm, organize, train or prepare ne
groeS or mulattoes for military service, or
aid them in any military enterprise against
the Confederate States, shall, if captured,
suffer death.
2."Every commissioned or non CommisN
stoned officer Of the enemy who shall in
ci'e slaves TO rebellion or pretend to give
them freedam under the aforementioned
aot of Congress aud proclamation, by abb
Quoting them or causing them to be alb
Quoted, or inducing them to abscond, shall,
if captured, suffer death.
81. That every person charged with an
olfense under this act shall be tried by
such military court as the President shall
direct, and alter conviction the President
may commute the punishment or pardon
unconditionally or on such terms as he
may see fit
"j. That the President is hereby author
rized to resort 10 such other retalialory
measures as in his judgment may be best
calculated to repress the atrocities Of the
enemy
DEATH TO THE INVADER.
Mr.. Hill, from the same committee, pre-.
sented the following in connection with
| the other reports
81. That ifany person singly or in or
ganized bodies. shall under the pretence
OF waging war, kiL or main, or in any,
wise injure the person Of any unarmed
citizen of the Confederate States, or shall
ide6troy or seize or damage the property,
or invade the house or domi2iI, or insult
! the family Of such unarmed citizen or
j shall persuade or force any slave to aban~
! don his owner, or shall by word or act
counsel or incite TO servile insurrection
within the limits of the Confederate
States all such persons, if captured by
the forces of the Confederate States, shall
be treated as criminals and not as prison,
ess of war, and shall be tried by any mill
tary court, and, on conviction, suffer death.
40. That every person pretending to be
q soldier or officer of the United States
who shall be captured on the soil of the
| Confederate States after the lst day of
January, 1863, shall be presumed TO have
entered the territory OF the United States
with intert to incite insurrection and abet
murder, and unless satisfactory proof be
adduoed to the contrar" before the mill.
tary court, before which The trial shall be
held, shall suffer death. This section
shall continue in force until the proclama
ton issued by Abraham Lincoln, dated at
| Washington, on the 22d of September,
| 1862, shall be rescinded, and the policy
therein announced shall be abandoned,
and no longer"
Mr.. Hill said he considered the proclaN
nation Of the President of the United
States as a mere 6rut,sal fulmen of no prac.
tical effect, and he doubted whether it
was necessary to notice it at all.
WAR OF EITERMINATIoN PROPOSED.
Mr.. Phelan, from the same com mittee,
submitted the following as the minority
report on the same subject:
Joint resolution in relation to the fu~
ture prosecution of the war with the Uni.
ted States
"IEsulted and oppressed by long train
OF evils, and menaced by future peril, un'
der the government Of the United States,
tho cnparotn sovora;rnt;os ,f tho Gt,,as
constituting the Confederate States Of
America dissolved the political connec-
tion existing between themselves and the
other sovereignties composing the United
States. and organized a distinct Confeder
alton. Upon its formation a war most
foul and unnatural was inaugurated for
its destruction by the government from
which we had separated, and upon the
pretext that the government organized
and thus created was not the choice and
offering of the people inhnbiting said
States. but was despotsm ernoted by da.
ring and ambitious demagogues, by whom
the voice OF the mass of our population
was silenced, and their efforts TO preserve
the Federal Union paralized and suppress.
sed. For nearly two years has this inhu.
'i'NiN 49, VI btIb Nd5ONN
against us.
Conscious Of the unity of all classes OF
our people, relying upon its ultimate de-
yelopment, inspired by the hope that our
enemies would become conscious of the
wickedness of their warfare and of the
folly of attempting our subjugation, ,averse
to the shedding OF blood, and with sa,
cred regard for human life, the Confeder,
ate States have conducted their defense
upon the most humane principles of civil
ized warfare, and under the eoadngs Of
wrongs and outrages perpetrated by our
loes' that might justly have invoked
polcy OF revengeful retaliation. The pre-.
tence by which the war was originally
sought to be justified has long since beer
dlssipated, our enemies themselves being
the Ju iges whilst the solemn consecroe
ton ei our national temple has convinced
the world that the blood and treasure of
our common country have been unreser,
yedly dedicated to its preservation. But
our reasonable hopes have been disap.
pointed, our desire for peace has been
spurneds our efforts IN avoid b,,,,,,, -.