Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-11-24

cling class left at home to sustain the army
for when the soldier learns that his fam.
lily are suffering for food, we shonld not
be surprised at his desertion. He Mr.. Orrl
was in favor of putting the largest number
In the army that could be sent there; but
it was wrong to send to the army every
miller, every farmer, and every planter.
Last February we turned over to the Sec
retary of War the power to grant details-
to say who should be sent to the field, and
who should be retained for service else
where. Six months afterwards the Secre-
tary, by his sweeping order, No. n, puts
the whole arms bearing population into
the army. Congress should do its duty
hereafter, and not turn it over to an IRE.
sponsible party. He hoped the matter
would be fully Investigated by the commit
tee, and proper bill on the subject report
ed to the Senate.
Mr.. Sparrow, of Louisiana had hoped
that this subject would have been deferred
to another period. He thought that the
gentleman from South Carolina Mr. Orr)
was much mistaken as to the working of
General Order No. II, to which he had re-
ferred. In the matter of details, enormous
frauds had been prsCtised, by means of
which large number of persons had man
aged to keep out of the army. Persons
had obtained exemptions for working mines
which were in the hands of the enemy
The mistake seemed to be made that the
order repealed the law. Such was not the
fact.
Mr.. Orr said if the gentleman from
Louisiana (Mr. Sparrow speaks from his
own information, he would accept it as
correct. Mr.. Orr had understood that the
Secretary listened to no appeal on this
subject.
Mr.. Sparrow replied that he was present
on very recent occasion, when the Sec
retary of War was considering the matter
of detailing several persons seriatim.
The resolution was referred to the Conn
mittee on Military Affairs. t.
Mr.. Orr introduced bill to exempt the
cargoes of vessels owned by the States Of
the Confederacy from existing restrictions
upon exports and imports which was read
the first and second times and referred to
the Committee on Commerce.
MORE RESOLUTIONS OF THE SANE OLD KIND.
SENATE. ...
FRIDAY, Nov. 1s, 1864.
Hon. Herschel Y. johnson, Of Ga, was
present to-day.
Mr.. Henry, of Tenn, introduced the fol-
lowing, which was read and ordered to be
printed 80
Joint resolutions defining the position
of the Confederate States, and declaring
the determination of the Congress and the
people thereof to prosecute the war till
their independence is acknowledged.
ResolUed, by the Congress of the Conted.
crate States of America, That the people
of the Confederate States are endowed by
their Creator with the inalieuable rights of
life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness;
that to secure these high rights govern
ments were instituted among men, deriving
their Just powers from the consent of the
governed, and, whenever any government
becomes destructive of these ends, it is the
right of the people to alter or abolish 1t
and to institute a new government, laying
its foundation on such principles and or
gauizing its powers in such form as to them
shall seem most likely to effect their safety
and happiness; that in these principles,
embodied in the Declaration OF American
independence, the United Colonies, in
l776, dissolved the connection which bound
them to the government of Great Britain,
and on them the Confederate States have
severed the bonds of that political union
which connected them with the people
and the government Of the United States
of America, rather than submit to the re-
peated iBjuries inflicted upon them by that
people, and to the usuFpations of that
government, all of which has had the di'
rect object to deprive them of their rights,
rob them of property secured to them by
guarantees, and to establish
an absolute tyranny over these States.
ReSoIVed, That the Confederate States
appealed to arms in defence of these rights,
and to establish these principles only after
they had in vain conjnred the people and
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all the ties of common kindred, to dis
countenance and discontiouethese injuries
and usurpations, and after they had petit
toned for redress in the most appropriate
terms, and received in answer only repe.
tition of insults aud INJURIES which fore
shadowed usurpatious still more dangerous
to liberty. --E ~
RIsolGed, That after Aeafly four years Of
cruel, desolating and unnatural war in
which the people of the Confederate States
have unquestionably established their CO.
pacity for self. government, and their abll-
ity to resist the attempts OF the enemy to
eubjugate them, this Congress does not
hesitate 70 aver its sincere desire for peace,
and to that end proclaims to the world the
readiness of the government of the Conted-
crate States to open negotiations to estab-
lish permanent and honorable peace be-
tween the Confederate States aud the
United States, upon the basis of the sepa-
rate independence of the former.
ResoIved, That the time has come when
the Confederate Congress, IN the name OF
the people of the Confederate States, deem
it proper again to proclaim TO the world
their 'nnalterRble determination to be free,
and that they do not abate one jot Of their
high resolve to die treemen rather than
live slaves; and further, If the peo-
pie of the United States, by re-
electing Abraham Lincoln, mean to tender
to them four years more Of war, or re-
union with them on any terms. deeply
deprecatiug the necessity so wantoniy
thrust upon them, and relying upon the
Justice of their cause and the gallantFy OF
their soldiers, they accept the gage Of bat
tie, aud leave the result to the righteous
arbitrameut Of Heaven.