Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-01-14

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The question then taken on Mr. SUMMERS amend
ment as thus modified and decided in the negative by Ia
| following vote
YEAS-Messrs Dixon. DooIittle, Grimes Harding Harlan
Howard Lane OF Kansas Morgan Pomeroy, Ramsey sum
NAYS Msasrs Anthony, brown Buckalew, Garlic
Chandler Clark coliamer Gowan, Davis Fessenden Foot
Of Indiana, Morrill, Powell Sherman, Sprssae, Ten Eyes
Van Wrinkle, and Wiley-25 M.
The question having then required the additional sec
ton reported from the Committee Military Affairs
Mr. WILSON moved 10 amend il by striking out al
after the enacng clause and inserting the following
That any pc enrolled drafted may pay to suci
person as the Secretary OF War designate receive
paying 500 for the procurement of substitute shall b.
exempt from draft until fuch time he shall again bscom.
rom which The draft shall be sde but such exemption sha
not he time for which person shall be have
property who labors for livelihood trade
Pao the annual income from which does xceed $500
whose taxable property shall 600 or who may
~ g1sePt OF an annual income exce ding 600 hal paw
Another long debate ensued in which Messrs HOWE,
GRIMES. WILSON, ANTHONY, BROWN, SHER-
MAN, JOHNSON, HOWARD, CONNEsS, FEssEN
DEN, aud LANE Of Kansas, took part We copy so
much OF the debate as relates to the enlistment OF free
negroes and slaves ID it#
ENLIsTMENTs OF NEGROES.
Mr.. GRIMES should like TO know from the chair
man Of the Committee Military A Hairs what is the
probable number Of coOred soldiers now in the service or
that arc likely to DO in the service under the attempted
organizations which understand being made under
the authority OF the War Department. should like to
know whether not any steps havs been taken to enroll
the coored men 10 what known the Border States
aud II 80 when those steps-were inaugurated.
MIR. WILSON, Mr., President it is not in my power
to precisely the question put by ths Senator from
Iowa nnderatand that have fifty thousand colored
troops enlisted 1t may be that have increased that
number considerably within the last two or three weeks
but it was understood about the time Of the meeting Of
Congress, four weeks ago, that had about fifty
thousand men We are increasing them uow at a more
rapid rate than any other PERIOD for the that
can reach them better We have for the last few weeks
been doing well in Maryland. We doing we'll ia east
Virginia We ARE doing fairly 10 Missouri but not
we'll ought to do there We rpIsiug colored
men IN Tennessee and in other parts Of the country
The Government bus not pressed this matter of raising
black troops with much vigor as some Of s think il
ought 10 have done but there been great difficulty 10
reaching these people They have been moved away and
kept out ot the reach OF our armies far possible
Thsy have now found their way in and enstne
them ! think that armies advance shall raise
many more Of them. u t rtef q. fss
Mr.. ANTHONY. / would Ike to ask question in
regard to the enlistment Of c00red troops have been
told on what cannot doubt is reliable authority that the
military authorities will not permit freedmen who
nlo this District to get out Of it, and that there many
OF them here row who DESTROYS of going into such
States ohur remnDeratVe bOuntes and that they
not permitted to Leave the city but kept precise
y colored were kept here under the old slave
can well nnderst nd why the Government might pro-
who resdens Of this strict enrolled and liable 10
do military duty here. from gng ino other States and
enlistng but cannot understand by what authority by
what law, free thu District cannot leave at his
pleasure, who is not liable military duty in the
District; aud he from without the District aud
not enrolled in It, he is certainly not liable military
duty here - a&
Mr.. VI ILSON. / have heard the same complaints as
are made to-day by the Senator from Rhode Island
believe such authority assumed here in this District IL
unlawful assumption Of authority and there IA no ius
in Tn ha ndnuad ad.otol
Mr.. CLARK BY whom has it been assumedf
Mr. WILSON Hy the military authorities here, CT
rather perhaps the city authorities. the other day
that the Mayor Of this city made appeal the War
Office in regard 10 il urging that colored persons shoud
be permitted to go out Of this city into other parts
the country TO enlist think all this interruption that
have had here at the railroad wrong and it ought
BE- abandoned. sis
Mr.. JOHNSON. Will the Senator permit me to ak
him il the suggestion of the Mayor OF the city not
sanctioned by the War Department thini thew az
proved IL, and issued orders about it,
Mr. WILSON. do not know certainly whether the |
War Department as Department, approved of ID not
but find practically the thing is done.
Mr. JOHNSON. have understood that it was unde r
orders Of the War Department.
Mr.. WILSON. Whether ID is approved Of by the War |
Department not do not agree to the policy think
that any free who this CITY, any person
in this city black white who chooses to go any where
the country and enst 10 the Service should have the
privilege 0fdoing so.
The Senator from Iowa (Mr GRIMEs) put another /
question; and that TO- whether the Government has Gu
rolled the colored men ia the Border States under
stand that IN Maryland they have done believe they
have done It IN Kentucky speak Of the freemen,
not the slaves am told that that the do not
know certainly whether il be so or not At any rate
there doubt that the Government has the power to
d. it, told that in the State OF Maryland the Gov.
ernment enstng slaves without asking the of
their masters, and they have the privilege in the
tate Of Missouri but told that this 10 not go n the
State of X ntucky The Government can 90 in any psrt
of the country and take enlist them without
asking consent but the Government OF the United
States cannot step into the great State Of Kentucky and
snt slave without asking the consent OF his master
Sir would enlist him CHOSE to do 81, aud ssk
OF the master ywhere The Governm. Mt can take
your apprentice belonging you without your
consent but it must ask slavemaser for bis Consent to
nst able bodied into the service Of the country
IL is thing which ought MT to be submitted to day.
and it ought net to be acted upon day longer
Mr. BROWN. ask the Senator to inform me- If he |
can, uadsr what authority the War Department pays the
master OF the slave where he Is enlisted eu
MIR WILSON l cannot answer the Senator from
ssour unless 1t be- that they construe the law giving
lu hority the mon-y received from persons who
nave been drafted for exemptions from service 70 au
hurizs ts appropriation Ia ths understand that
The War Department had used the $500 or had promised
the master in certain where the slave enlisted
otto the service, because guarantees his
freedom. In order suppose, TO fill up the ranks OF the
army and ut the time encourage the emA0cip
lecded to pay the master the $500 instead Of paying
4 the Government
Mr.. BROWN merely desired to know whether there
gas any authority for 1t IN any part OF the country
Mr. WlLSON. There is no express law for it.
Mr.. SHERMAN. II the Senator will allow me, | wish
o suggest that think the law is clear enough The Sc