Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-12-15
CONGRESSIONAL.


! SENATE--Messrs. Hale and Sumner pre-
sented petitions protesting against the action Of
the Advisory Board OF the Navy.
Messrs. King. Pomeroy and Howard presented
| petitions in favor OF general bankrupt act.
! Mr.. Browning introduced a bill to amend the
act establishing the Territorial Government of
Utah. and to facilitate the administration of JUS
tice in said Territory. Referred to the Judiciary
Committee.
A message was received fiom the President
recommending vote Of thanks 10 Lieut.. G. w.
Morris. for the determined valor and heroism he
displayed in defense of the sloop- of war Cumber-
land against the rebel iron clad Merrimac. Also
recommending vote of thanks TO Lieut. G. l..
WOrden. for the skill and gallantry exhibited by
him in the battle between the Monitor and the
rebel steamer Merrimac. Referred to the 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 to
be printed.
The resolution relative to the arbitrary arrests
OF certain citizens of Delaware was taken up.
Mr.. Morrill, contended that the resolution, as it
now stood, was not resolution of inquiry, but
charge against the Government and an indictment
against the President and he should vote for no
such resolution. He claimed that in this state of
war and rebellion, with the land full of traitors
and spies the Commander-in Chief has the right
to arrest such men.
No one, not even the Senator from Delaware,
| (Saulsbury) has claimed that these men were
loval. That Senator (Powell) had denounced
the Government from the beginning the same as
his colleague, who followed the logical result of
his reasoning and went into the rebel army: but
not single word does the Senator (Powell)
offer against the rebels, and rejoices the
cent elections, and says the lion hearted DemOc-
racy are rebuking this Administration. Well,
every rebel throughout rebeldom rejoices in the
same way. 1t IS supposed there will be peace
party at the North that will force this Government
INTO an lnglorous 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
were LOYAL
Mr. Morrill, contended that there was no ground
for complaint that men were arrested on suspicion.
Men were always arrested upon suspicion of
crime.
Mr.. Wright moved to amend the resolution so
as TO make the call upon the President instead Of
the Secretary OF War.
| Mr. Wright said he knew no man who was per-
mitted to live in the South who has any sympathy
with the North. He would love to see some of
the spirit shown by StOnewall Jackson when he
/ found forty seven of his men skedaddling from
the battle. He marched them in front of the
regiment and had every man of them shot. In
stead OF this, we have propositions for conven.
tons. &c. He woUld stand by the Government
and the President He would have the power of
the Government felt by every traitor North and
South
Mr. Bayard argued at length to show the affairs
of the State of Delaware, and that true loyalty
to the country did not imply loyalty to a single
individual.
Mr. Powell said the President had violated the
Constitution. and he was ready to prove it. He
did not believe this Union could ever be restored
by force of arms. He contended that President
Lincoln had violated the Constitution in enarg
ing the regular army, in the suspension of the
writ OF habeas corpus, in arresting citizens, in
interfering with the freedom of the press, and in
his recent proclamation
Mr. FeSsenden was willing to admit that some
thing had been done apparently without law; but
does any one doubt the patriotism of the Presi
dentT does any one pretend that he has not done
what he thought best to suppress this rebellion
and preserve the country, or that he has wfully
violated the rights of any citizen2
At o'clock A NJ. the Senate had not ad.
jonrned
HoUsz-Mr Roscoe Conklin asked leave to re-
port bill to establish uniform system of bank
ruptcy
Mr.. Yeatmen offered the following, to be laid
over for future consideration:
neSOtced Ol tue House OF Representatives, the
Senate concurring, That the proclamation OF the
President, of the 22d Of September 1862, is not
warranted by the Constitution.
ResOiUed, That notice of emancipation, as in
Dictated in the proclamation well calculated to
hasten the restoration Of peace, is not well chosen
a measure and is an assumption of power dan
gerous to the rights of citizens and the perpetuity
of free Government
| Mr. Loveov moved to lay the resolution on
the table. Carried, by "a against 45.
The House then went into Committee of the
Whole on the Presidents message
Mr.. Hutchins spoke at length. taking for text
that freedom and slavery were incompatible be-
yond hope of reconsideration or compromise
Mr. Menzies. replying, said he was in the habit
of regarding the enemies of the proclamation as
the friends of the Constitution. He understood
the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Hutchins) to be
opposed TO the Union as it was. No doubt the
reasons assigned By him for the recent defeat of
tina Republicans were satisfactory to the gentle
man himself, but he merely would tell them tina;
the disasters to that party attributable to the
Abolition programme of the President and his
party