Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-01-09
SPRINGFIELD, MO-, ATTACKED.
MESSAGE OF GOV. LETOHBR
he says Virginia shall not be
divided.
He will continue the war indef-
nitely,
CONGRESSIONAL.

SENATE.
The resolution of thanks to Rosecrans
&C., was referred to the Military Commit
tee.
On motion of Mr.. Sherman, the bill to
tax bank bills and fractional currency
was taken up, and he proceeded to address
tho SsAeto in its fuTUr.
On motion of salisbury, the bill for the
discharge of State prisoners was taken up.
He proceeded to address the Senate at
length. He declared that partisan revenge
had governed the actions Of this admins
tration, and the infamy of its acts would
drag it with disgrace down to future gener-
atiOns.
The cause of this war was the assertion
Of the right to abolish slavery and the ev-
idence of such purpose. The President
had treated the subject with jocular and
criminal indifference, and when he came
disguised to the capital he uttered no
word ofhope to the men struggling to make
some peaceable arrangement, and after he
was inaugurated he proceeded TO place his
friends in office, and manifested no further
care about the country except to endeayor
to force the rebles to strike the first blow.
War exists not by act of Congress, but
by the acts of Beauregard and Lincoln
He claimed that the power to suspend the
writ Of habeas corpus was vested alone in
Congress, and yet the President has had
the audacity before men and the temerity
before heaven, to presume to suspend this
writ and seize peaceful citizens and bas-
tile them in different parts of the country.
1 would, in the name of my country, and
in behalf of civil liberty, protest against
it, and any one who for this said he was
disloyal to his country, lied before man
and in the presence of heaven. He used
this language because every miserable
press in the land charged every man with
disloyalty who expressed his sentiments
He referred to the Presidents proclama-
ton as a mere brutTm .tulmen, and the
President might just as well have issued
proclamation that the rebels should all
be blind or lame. This proclamation com
mits the Government to fight for the ex-
tinetion of slavery and prevents the South
ern States from coming back into the Uni
on as it was.
After executive session adjourned.
HOUSE.
Mr.. Blake's declarstory resolution
that the only alternative to the rebels is to
submit or be conquered, and Holman's
resolution that no proposition tending to
destroy the Union can rightfully be enter
tanned by the representatives. Of the peo-
pie or any of the departments &C., were
POSTPONED until the 14th, when other dec
laratory resolutions, those of Stevens
included, will be considered.
Mr.. Wickliffe offered resolution to call
on the Secretary of the Treasury and Sec
ELL
their actions and dOings at Port Royal,
South Carolina and Georgia, with regard
to the care and employment of the slaves;
the number of regiments and overseers;
the product Of the labor; the ex pense Sc.
On motion Of Mr.. Stevens, it was laid
on the table 81 to so.
On motion of Cox, the Committee on
Military Affairs was directed to report and
consider the expediency of a bill requiring
an increase of the amount of the bonds of
Paymasters, and such other restrictions
and penalties for their fidelity as will en-
sure a more trustworthy execution of their
duties; or if in the opinion of the Commit
tee, the abolishment of said Office, and the
transfer of the duties thereof to Captains
of companies, or some other officers, can
not be made, with o view to the benefit Of
the public service, and that they report ac-
cordingly.
On motion of Yeaman it was resolved
that special committee of five be appoint
ed, with directions to report bill provid-
ing for the appointment of commissioners
whose power and duty shall be to attend
on the districts of the country passed over
by the army Of the United States during
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hear and take proof Of the losses sustained
by citizens, and caused by the presence or
conduct of said armies; and also proofs of
the loyalty or disloyalty of persons pre-
senting such claims; to distinguish the
kind of property taken, for what purpose
taken, and the value Of that necessarily
consumed and of that wantonly, in no case
taking into the estimate the consequential
damages, but only the actual value, and
make and return reports, with the evidence
and their opinions upon each claim, to the
Court Of Claims in Washington; and pro-
yiding that no such claim shall be POi1- un-
iii approved by said Court Of Claims.
On motion of Mr.. Dunn it was resolved,
that the Attorney General be requested to
| inform the House whether the law for
the confscation of rebel property has been
enforced in the District of Columbia, and
if not, the reasons for delaying the execu-
tion of the same.
Mr.. Washburpe introduced substitute
| for Mr. Holman's resolution, asking the
Secretary of the Treasury why he has not
provided the means for paying the sol
diers of the army, and why the bonds here
tofore authorized to be sold if necessary
to make such payments have not been sold.
Agreed to, 1S2 against 8.
Mr.. Segar presented the credentials Of
John B. Mcleod as Representative elect
from the Second District of Virginia. Re-
l-Ferred to Committee on Elections.
The House then went into Committee Of
the Whole on the Executive, Legislative
and Judicial Appropriation Bill.
Adjourned.