The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-10-17

give them freedom under the aforemen-
toned act Of Congress and proclamation,
by abducting them or causing them to be
abducted, Or inducing them to abscOnd,
shall, if captured, suffer death.
1th. That every person charged with
an offence under this act shall be tried
by such military court as the President
shall directs and after conviction the Pres
ident may commute the punishment or
pardon Internationally or on such terms
as he may see Fl.
9th. That the President is hereby au-
thorized tofesort to such other retaliatory
measures as in his judgment may be best
calculated to repress the atrocities Of the
enemy.
Dir. Hill, from the same committee, pre-
sented the following in connection with
the other reports
1. That If any person. sinalv ar in
organized bodies, shall. under ibe bre
tence OF waging war, kill on main, OF In
anywise injure the person of any un-
armed citizen of the Confederate States,
Or shall destroy or seize on damage the
property, or invade the house or domicil,
or Insult the family of such unarmed
citizen or shall persuade or force any
slave TO abandon his owner, or shall bv
word or act counsel or incite to servile
instruction within the limits Of the Con-
federate States-all such persons, if can
tured by the forces Of the Confederate
States, shall be treated as criminals and
not as prisoners of war, and shall be
tried by military Court, and, on con-
yiotion, suffer death.
2 That every person pretending to be
a soldier or officer of the United States
who shall be captured on the soil of the
Confederate States after the 1st dav of
January 1853, shall be presumed to have
entered the territory of the Confederate
States with intent to incite insurrec
ton and abet murder, and, unless salts
factory proof be adduced to the contrary
before the military court before which the
trial shall be had, shall suffer death. This
section shall continue in force until the
proclamation issued by Abraham Lin
coin, dated at Washington on the 22d of
September 1862, shall be rescinded, and
the policy therein announced shall be
Mr. Hill said he considered the pro-
elamation of the President of the United
States as a mere sJtutans fu7nea, of no
practical effect, and he doubted whether
1t was necessary TO notice it at all.
Mr.. Phelan, from the same Committee,
submitted the following as the minority
report on the same subject:
TOint raaoiufiOr, "a roIo4;o, A. ~ r
ture prosecution Of the war with the
United States.
lnsnlted and oppressed by long train
of evils, and menaced by future peril,
under the Government of the United
States, the separate sovereignties of the
States, constituting the Confederate States
of America, dissolved the political con-
nection existing between themselves and
the other soyereigntes composing the
United States, and organized distinct
Confederation. Upon its formation, a
/ war most foul and unnatural was inau-
gurated for its destruction by the Govern
ment 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 inhab-
iting said States; but was a despotism
erected by daring and ambitious dem
agogues, by whom the voice of the mass
of our population was silenced, and their
efforts TO preserve the Federal Union par
alised and suppressed For nearly two
years has this inhuman and unholy cru
SADIE been waged against us Conscious
of the unity of all classes of our people,
relying upon its ultimate development
inspired by the hope that our enemies
would become conscious of the wicked
ness Of their warfare and of the folly OF
attempting our subjugation, averse to
the shedding Of the blood, and with a
sacred regard for human life, the Confed-
crate States. have conducted their defence
upon the most humane principles of civ
ilized warfare, and under the goadings of
wrongs and outrages perpetrated by our
foes, that might justly have invoked a
policy Of reVengeful retaliation. The
| pretence by which the war was originally
sought to be justified has long since been
dlssipated, our enemies themselves being
the judges; whilst the solemn consecra-
zion Of our national temple has convinced
the world that the blood and treasure OF
our common country have been unreserv-
eddy dedicated TO its preservation. But
our reasonable hopes have been disap-
pointed; our desire for peace has been
spurned, our efforts TO avoid human sac
rifice unappreciated, our recognition re-
fused and our rights as an independent
nation secuted and denied. War, unap-
peased and relentless,i is still urged against
us. The suherings inflicted upon as by
our foes have been almost intOlerable Our
country has been desolated, our homes
violated our fields laid waste, our affairs
profaned, our property sliced, consumed
or destroyed our citizens arrested
outraged, murdered; whilst the bones oil
our brayest and best are soldering ia the
sun OF bleaching upon the battlefield
Our signal and repeated victories and
the generosity which has characterized
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