Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-05-05

sss q war; and are subject to oil The liabilities Of for.
sisn bsllersnts that their real and personal property
eve the wounded soldiers and the families of the fallen
While the innocent should be spared the morally and po-
tcaily guilty should be punished In reply to the at
tacks which had been made upon these positions he
gued that from the crimes of the we are JUS
Tined IN exactng the extreme demands of The poo
pie are the absolute soveregns and there other gov
ernment independent of those sovereigns When they
make an unjust all their property both public and
private, subject to forfeiture The Confederate States
are repubS. however bad may be the sovereigns and
speak for the entire people This view he illustrated and
said to allow them to return with their property untouch
ed would be rank Injustice to loyal IT. has been
commended they in the Union where their repre-
sentatives heref We making upon them for 60
ing out of the Union without law and they should
again be received until they repent and rebatEed
the National Union If he Mr. could live to the
land trod by the foot Of slave he would be
tent with any lot In the of his remarks he add
ed to the recent speech Of Mr. Blair of Missouri and
that gentleman stealing the mantle Of the President and
stsbbng the friends of the President in the aters
Mr.. STROUSE, of Pennsylvania, said that free and
voluntary enstments exist more for the that
the war has been diverted from its original purpose
declared by solemn vote of the House. namely, that this
war was not waged for purposes OF conquest
ton but to defend the supremacy of the Government with
the equality OF the States and that when Obe
dieDce to the Constitution and laws should be secured
the ought to But, instead Of this, have
confscaon abolition the destruction of State lines vio
ation of the Constitution, and national debt The
temptation is fighul Notwithstanding all this, they
told by the tpendiary Swiss Guards Of the Admnstra
ton that all ia well, and plenty of money All hopes Of
peace were dspelled no long the Administration shall
adhere to its present policy. We cannot subdue eight
millions of people aud hold them in subsection To achieve
the Administration Iuust its seps and
President Lincoln dvest hmse Of the falacy that he is
the Government. The Democratic party the only
organization for restoring the seeded States to their for
mer status, in order to secure more perfect Union
Democrats opposed to the shedding of blood in the
effort to raise the negro to the equality of the white man.
tn ENGLAND and
brother aboitionists Of Old England. While he hated
secession he could not shut bis eyes to the fact that the
constant agitation Of slavery in the North is the primary
cause of the war, and secession the consequence
Mr.. CRAVENS, of Indiana, briefly stated bis views.
The Democratic party whose principles he endorsed had
inscribed upon Its banner the Constitution and the
Union" When passion and prejudice shall have run
their COURSE then, and not until then will real in
their vast extent the blundes which have been commit
ted. This cruel war would have bsen ended before now
if the abundant furnished had been honestly and
wisely applied and if the Administration had rgidy I'D
hesd to the policy avOwed at the beginning Of the struggle