Year: 1862

Senator McUougal Oh lHc " d..


During the discussion OF the confseation bill
in the United States Senate, Mr.. McDougal
spoke as follows, on


TIE ORIGIN OF TIE WAR.


The present colossal war has been organized
against and forced upon the Republic By s
body of conspirators hostile to our own free
institutions aud free government throughout
the world The sacrifice of human life, the
desolatious of civil war, and the vast burden OF
public debt with which they are justly charge
able did seem 10 me to justify almost any
degree OF penal visitation and almost any meas
ure of reprisal OF eonfseEtion.


For many years small band Of desperate
conspirators, BY careful and secret organization,
have been endeavoring to effect the result we
now witness. How did they proceed They
proceeded with fixed and definite purpose /;
they organized secret societies with that COM
mon purpose they affiliated with ell parties
for that same purpose; they got possession of
the Executive chairs OF the various Southern
States they got possession by management
of their Legislative Assemblies they got pos
session Of their military organizations they
got possession of all the State and Federal
arms throughout the South, and what they had
not Of their own of right they procured through
the agency of the cOnspirators within and
about this Capitol. The result was, that when
the standard Of rebellion was raised these
conspirators had brought about them the vio-
lent the desperate, the reckless, and the worth
less portion of the community throughout the
South, There, as well as elsewhere too hume
rous9 with arms in their hands and they
overwhelmed compelled, and subdued the large
majority of true and loyal men throughout the
South, who found themselves surprised without
arms or organization.


What | now state is illustrated by what we
are at present witnessing. The loyal men who
receive our troops on the banks of the Cum
berland and the Tennessee with shouts and
with tears of joy are not men who have chang
ed their opinions on this subject. They have
been compelled for the sake Of their lives, OF
their families-from necessity, if you please
to remain silent, and even go so far as 10 ex-
press sentiments they DO not entertain; but
the flag of the Union IS as dear to them now
as it is 10 us. 1t has been evidenced there
and | undertake to say the same exhibition OF
sentiment will be continued wherever that flag
is moved throughout the States now in rebel
lion.


Mr.. McDougal opposed the confscation as
uuCOustltutlOuuI ubu III IpOiitiS, uuu NdiSuia'Cu
to work the complete subugation of the people
of the seeded States, who from their positions
had been forced to acquiesce in treason to the
Government He took the rule as laid down
by Nattel, that the Government cannot justly
conquer right to private property but only
such rights as are claimed by the rebel Gov
ernment Vattel says, page 1888:


Some have dared to advance this monstrous
principle: that the conquerer is absolute mas
ter of bis conquest; that he may dispose of it
as his property that he may treat it as he
pleases, according to the common expression of
treating State as a conquered country and
hence they derive one of the sources of despotc
government. But disregarding such writer's
who reduce men to the state Of transferable
goods, or beasts of burden-who deliver them
up as the property or patrimony of another
man-let us argue on principles eouutenanced
by reason and conformable to humanity.


MoBBED HIM. - The notorious Wendell
Phillips was recently mobbed in Cincinnati,
whittier he had gone to deliver one of his char
acteristic Abolition harangues.-IS F. Jour


Some of the late Mcconnell, peace party
papers of California consider Phillips good
evidence against Secretary Stanton. If the
people mob Phillips, what should they think
of those who use hlm as an auxiliary to carry
out their schemes