Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-06-19
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 Mr. poolittle continued, ard said the constitu- uoh was Just as supreme Il withholding as granting powers, and if corgfsss undertakes to irample on the constitution b. usurping powers net granted, its just as muck rebellion and rev oution as the acts Of the insu erectiouary States II the federal government ca. thus usarp power then the days ottbeT republic ale past and the days of the empire begun. Congress has power to pun lsh treason and suppress insutfection The bill oi he senator from Illinois Is sqramed under the power 10 suppress Insurrecfon, and the bill ot he senator f'om Vermont (Caliamer) Is framed under both lhese powers.
 He cont nded that the Imitation of the con stiution in regard to bills of attainder prohibits congress foreitng real estats except during life, but does not apply to person.~l estate This vas absosaiely conheeated on caaviction of treason. 'sRd eVct- 5eiere jadznsef .--~tce . otra tren. Blackstone and Chitty, and the opinion of Joel Parker, ot Massachusetts, in support of his posi- tlon. He had studied this question anxiousy, and he was convinced thst congress had no power to conhseate the real estate beyond the
 
 when our fathers put the prohibition to conliscae real estate in he constitution they knew what 1 they were doing, and meant what they said. He l had introduced bH, therefore, to reach this real estate by taxation, in which way he thought 1 1t could be done. He held that under the con l stIfution congress had the right to declare wha, 1 hall be contraband of war and subject to cap 1 lure as to our own citizens, not foreigners: but real estate was not subj ct t0 capt.r within the meaning of the constitutioa-sueh as can be made prize of, it must refer to the personal 1 property.
 In regard to such eases as Mr. SlideH, who had gone to foreign countries there to commit an act hostile to the United States. lie thought they might be declared no longer citizens. but alien enemies, and their real estate might be escheated The real rebclion and formation of the Southern Contederacy began thirty years ago, on the prelext of the ;ar;f. Calhoun, find ing he could not unite the South on the tariff. started the pretext of slavery, and put forth the doctrine that slavery was q blessing. This new idea made slavery ag gressvP. and demanded com promise and concession. Bot this idea is pass. ing away, and the ideas of such men es Wash, ington and Madison are returning. He bcliev- ed fCalhoun had been tried and executed for treason. we shoald have 10 rebellion now.- Cen, Jackson, when on his death bed, told his physician that t.te act of his administration fer which posperty would condemn him, was that t was prevailed on him not to prosecute and hang John c. Calhoun.
 Mir. Wade said he sboald not have said a word. but as he indirectly charged with | wanting respect for the constitution he contend d that no man was more rue to the corstitu- ton. The senators from PenusYlyania lCowan and Illinois Browning agree that the president k has power enongd; so the only question is where u e power 'oiged.
 Mir. Cowan Pa) said ha believed the presi- dent was an absolute despot as against re belg.
 Mir. Wade coatendoa that was an absurd doc r;ne and u'te-ly ara~at jhe opjrions of op fathers that in time of peril absolute power be lodged in the president. when they spent thciI lives to prevent the lodgment of power in the hands of any one man. Congress had power tc make war and prescribe limits to the president No power could go one inch beyond mihtar3 lines, and has no power beycua al a Does the senator from Pennsylvania claim that tbe president has the right to conhocate property!
 Mr. Cowan said lhe president had no right to forleitreal estate, or congress either. They might seize personal estate.
 Mir. Wade sad the senator after all denies to
 
 his doctrine of making the president despot as slavish and at war with free institutions He had no particular lanency against those scoundre's who committed an the crimes ofmur dor and perjury n tie rebellion ageinst tlis gov. ernment. We had been too lenent to those men and too tendtr-tooed toward those men whose nhallowed ambition led them to raise their hands against inc government. He was an.az a at the conduct'of the border statesmen in attempting to hold on to the system of slavery. IL was strange that they could not see that this svstem weakened and enascpatPd them and has h, en their ruin It is . fact in history that when a nation rises to q certain night in civilization. slavery must pass away. Every labor saving machine steam engine, aic., Was greater abol. itonist than anything can be- Still the border statesmen hold on to the system that has passed away. They seem to thnk the Creator of the 1 universe was 8 pro-slavery being; but if he was not much mistaken, the Creator was at least a gradual emancipationist. They complain of the object of the war, The fact was, the object of the war Is to establish eternal slavery. as stated by the leaders of the rebellion. He l (Wade) was fighting for eternal freedom, and should continue 10 fight not only for ourselves l but for all mankind.
 Mr. Collamer tVermont) defended lis bill as | not different from others, as III all me property has to be taken first, before anything else was done. The country must be conquered first 1 Ii it was true that, according to the senator 1 rom Ohio, slavery was dooraed, then there was l no need of making special laws to crushit. We might be quiet and await the working of Provi dence. He thought # this vast army were spread all over the Smfh, many of them would nerpr come back bnt s61te there, thus helping to do away with slavery and restore peace. Mr. Saulsbury said if We passed this bill, if there was a hope Of reurion of these States, it would be gone. He said frankly what he be- Ieved, There were no warmer friends to the Union thanin the border Sates. yet the advice and council of the hold States were thrown aside as worthless. He thought they had not been treated fairly in the senate The passage of this bill would be the death Enell of the Union. He predicted that in 1870 here would be more slaves than now, because the people will lensave the whole race. If they sent five thousand more negroes into De a ware he would 20 before s people 10 enslave the whole race, for the people were determined that this shall be white man country;. but by this sort of legislation, you are dragging up the filthy negro to be the equal of the white man. But this shall be a white mans country, and the negro shall never be his equal.
 The senate went into executive session.
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