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81. MAsHNoroNi Dec. lO.
SENATE - The resolution relative to the
arhitaraEy arests Of certain citizens Of Della
ware was taken up,
Mr Mosrell coateuded that the resolution
au Il now stood, was not mere resolution Of
inquiry, but charge agains: the Government
aud en- indictment against Presideat Lincoln,
and he (Morrell) should vote for no such res.
olution. 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 10 arrest such men, no one not even the
Senator from Delaware (Saulsburry) has claim
ed that these men were legal
There had been many arrests made and the
proper presumption is that the President has
been arresting guilty men, and simply doing
his duty. He Lincoln) ought to do it 1t
will not do 70 pretend that the whole State Of
Kentucky has been but a nest of traitors
Three out Of every four Of the able bodied
men Of that State have gone to rebeldom, aud
melody is left there but old women. Yet the
Senator from Kentucky (Powell) asks for com
misseration for these men:
That Senator Powell had denounced the
beginning, the same as his colleague, who fol
lowed the logical results Of his reasoning and
had gone into the rebel army but not single
word does that Senator Powell offer against
the rebels, and rejo.ces over the recent elec
tions, and says the lion hearted democracy are
rebuking this administration. Well, every
rebsl throughout rebeldom rejoices in the
same way. Its supposed there will be peace
party in the North that will force this Govern
ment an inglorious peace, and that party en-
couraped JET Davis and foreign countries in
their schemes of Intervention. Their ought
10 be some proof that these men were loyal
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length to show the affairs Of the State of Ken
tuckey had nothing whatever to do with the
State OF Delaware, and that trne loyalty 10
any single individual II this is free coun-
try, the people ia il certainly have q right to
inquire into the acts Of the President
Mr.. Powell cf Kentuckey, said he said the
President had violated the Constitution, and
he was ready to prove it. He dehed the
Senator from Maine, or any Senator on this
floor, to the lists on this question He de-
MED that three out Of four of the people Of
the State OF Kentucky were in the rebel army
three -lonrths of the people OF that State are
not 10 open arms at all, and he believed that
there was more men in the Union than in the
rebel army He (Powel) wanted to indulge
in no personalities with any Senator here, as
there was way 10 settle personal difficulties
elsewhere He wanted the Senator to meet
his arguments tarly. He did not believe this
Union could ever be restored by 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
(Davis) He should also vote for any nrmis-
tice while that Convention should continue TO
be in session He concluded that President
Lincoln had violated the Constitution IN en-
larging the regular army, in the suspension OF
the writ Of hAbeas corpus, in the arrest Of cit.
izens, in interfering with the freedom OF the
Press, and in his recent proclamation,