Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-12-19
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Ohio State Military Claim Agent
From the Washington Constitutional Union Dec. !
a Constitutional War.

N SOnStltuttOmsth war;
In the House of Representatives yester-
day, Mr.. Holman, of Indiana, submitted the
following:
RESOLVED That the doctrine recently an
nounced that the States in which an armed
insurrection has existed against the Federal
Government have ceased to be States of the
Union, and shall be held in the ultimate de-
feat of that insurrection as territories or
subjugated provinces, and governed as such
by the absolute will of Congress and the
Federal Executive, or restored to the Union
on conditions unknown to the Constitution
of the United States, ought to be rebutted
and condemned as manifestly unjust to the
loyal citizens Of slave States, tending to pro-
long the war and confirm the reasonable
theory of secessionism, and, if carried into
effect, must greatly endanger the public
liberty and constitutional powers and rights
of all the States by centraliZing and con-
solidating the powers of the Government
State and National, in the Federal EXecu-
tive. s. -
RESOLVED, That the only object of the
war ought to be to subjugate the armed in
surrection, which, for the time being. sus-
pends the proper relations of certain States
with the Federal Government, and to re-es-
tablish the supremacy of the Constitution I;
and the loyal citizens of those States, and
the masses of the people thereof submitting
to the authority of the Constitution, ought
not to be hindered from restoring the proper
relations of their respective States with the
Federal Government, so far as the same is
dependent on the voluntary act of the peo-
pie. by any condition except unconditional
submission to the Constitution and laws of
the United States. In thelanguage heretofore
addressed by Congress. the war ought not
to be waged on our part for any purpose of
conquest or subjugation, orpurpOse of over
throwing or interfering with the rights or
established institutions of those States, but
to defend and maintain the supremacy ofthe
Constitution, and to preserve the Union
with all the dignity, equality, and rights of
the several States unimpaired, and as soon
as those objects are accomplished the war
ought to cease.
RESOLVED, That all necessary and proper
appropriations of money ought to be
promptly made by Congress for the support
of the military and naval forces of the Gov
ernment, and all measures of legislation
necessary to increase and promote the eff
cheney Of the army and navy and to maintain
I the public credit, ought to be adopted; that,
through vigorous prosecution of the war,
peace on the basis of the Union of the
States and the supremacy of the Constitu-
ton may be the most speedily obtained.
= These resolutions were laid upon the table
yeas, 81; nays, "a. s I,.
! Every Democrat voted nay. This shows
which way the wind blows, and who are
the true Uuion men Of the country. There
fore, let it be kept before the people, that
while the Democrats and the Conservative
men in Congress want the war carried on
in a constitutional manner, the party i'm
power, and its friends in Congress, are op-
posed to all constitutional means of crush
ing out the rebellion; and are in favor of
blotting out the States themselves, and
making them subjugated provinces, to be
controlled by q power centralized in one
man, and located at the seat of the Nation
al Government, thus making this country
one of the worst despotisms that ever ours
ed the earth. fe--s-.t-,, .4a 1aaaU