The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1863-07-16

ton, which will propose at some fu-
ture time. I ask the clerk to read it.
The Clerk read as follows:
ReSo'Ued, That the Federal Govern.
ment is the agent Of the people Of the
several States composing the Union;
that it consists Of thr oe distinct depart
ments-the legislative, the executive,
and the judicial-eoch equally a part
OF the Government, and equally enti-
tied to the confidence and support of
the States and the people, and that it is
the duty ofcvcry patriot to sustain tho
several departments Of the Government
In the exercise of all the constitutional
powers of each, which may be necessary
and proper for the preservation of the
Government in its principles and in its
vlgor ard integrity, and to stand by and
defend to the utmost the flag which rep
rescnts the Government, and the Union
and the country.
Mr.. HoLMAn-Whie the gentleman
censures the Administration let me ask
him whether with his own constituents
he is resolved that the Union shall be
maintained.
Mr.. VALLANDGdHAM--My votes shall
speak for me on that subject. NV DO.
sition is defined in the resolution lust
road--I am answerable only to nv con.
science and to my constituents, andlnot
to the gentleman from Indiana.
HE OPPOSES THE RAISING OF yoLUN.
TIERS.
July 12, during tho consideration Of
the Volunteer Bill, (for raising 5OO,O
men and s5OO,OOO,OOO) Mr.. VaIlandig
ham threw all possible obstacles in the
way of its passage. He moved the fol-
lowing amendment before votingagains st
the bill:
Provided further, That before the
President shall have the right to call
out any more volunteers than are al.
ready in the service, he shall appoint
seven commissioners whose mission it
shall be to accompany the army on its
march, to receive and consider such
propositions, if any, as may at nv time
be submitted by the executive of the 90
called Confederate States, or of any
one of them, looking to a suspension OF
hostiIities, and the return ofsaid States
or any of them, to the Union, or obo
dience TO the Federal Constitution and
authorities. wide Cong. Globe, p. 1O2,
lst Sess. 9th Cong.7
In his remarks in support Of tbis
proposition, Mr.. V. said that while in
the beginning he would not have voted
a man or a dollar to commence the war
he was then willing "to vote for lust as
many men and just as much money a,
may be necessary to defend and protect
the Federal Government" He saic
he was against an aggressive war, anC
was then in favor Of suspending hostiI
ties to negociate with the South, whic
then had 100000 armed men in tn,
field.
HE OPPOSES PUNIsHINa REBELS.
On the 18th of July, the bill to pun
ish conspiraeios against the UnitcC
States, being under consideration, faiI
ed to receive his support. 1t was dc
: signed to punish by fine and i'm prison
ment those who should conepire for III
, overthrow of the Government, nm
) should seize any of the public property
but Mr.. v objected TO it strenuously.-
[Cong. Globe, pp. 120, 100, 200.
Mr.. Vallaudigham offered instead
series of resolutions, ccnsnring tn
President for his acts designed to sta
the tide of tho rebellion. The resolu
, tions were as follows:
Resolred, That the Constitution orth
= United States confers upon Congres
alone the power to "raise and supper
armies" and "to provide and maintair
navy" and, therefore, the President
in the proclamation of May Sd, 1861
and the orders and action, by his au
thority, of the War and Navy Depart
monts, increasing the Army and Navy
and calling for and accepting the sci
vices of volunteers for three year,
without warrant or law, usurped power
belonging solely to Congress, and so "
olated the Constitution.
; Resolved, That the right to declare
blockade, as against an independen
power, is a belligerent right dependin
upon tho existence of a state of wa
and that as Congress, and Cougres
alone, have the power to declare or rec
ognize the existence of war, the Pre-
ident has no right to order a blookaG
until after Congress shall have declare
or recognized war with the power who's
ports are to be blOckaded; and furth,
that Congress alonecan abolish or sh,
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