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1 WTm i 171 MOENING ED I I Volume 33. LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, SATURDAY MOENING, AUGUST 10, 1861. NUMBER 38. DAILY COURIER. brought into life the principles of public, and of pcrsonul liberty.

Sir, they existed before, and they may survive it. Take CArcthat'in pursuing one idea yon do not destroy not only the Constitution of your country! hut sever what remains of tho Federal Union. These eternal and sacred principles of public and of personal liberty, -which lived before the Union and will live forever and ever somewhere, must be respected; they cannot with impunity be overthrown; and if you force the people to LIST OF IiETTERS REMATXIKa Id the LouIbvMV Poft-cffice on August 9th. and which, ir not ca'ledfor within three months, will be sent to the Derart meal as dead letters. SPEECH OF HON.J.C BREMRIBSi OF KENTUCKY, ON THE BILL TO SUPPRESS REBELLION.

DELIVERED IN THE Senate of the United States. done with.it after that is accomplished Are not gentlemen now perfectly' satisfied that they have mistaken a people fir a faction Are they not perfectly, satisfied that, to accomplish their object, itiis necessary to subjugate, to conqner ay, to exterminate nearly tea millions of pso pie? Doyou not know it Does not every bodyknowit? Let. us.pause, and let the Congress of States respond to the rising "feeling oil over this land in favor of peace. War. is separation in the language of an eminent gentleman now no more, it is disunion, eternal and final: disunion.

We. have separation now it is only raadeworse by an utter extinction of all those sentiments of common interest and feeling which might lead to a political reunion founded upon consent and upon a conviction of its advantages. Let the war go on, however, and soon, in addition to the moans of widows, and orphans all over this land, yoa; will hear the cry. of distress from those who wont food and the around him, and who, perhaps, gnlde-his counsels. 1 deem him to be personally, an' honest man, and I believe that he-is trampling upon the Constitution of his' country every day, with probable good motives, under the councils of those who influence him.

But, sir, I have nothing now to soy about ihe President. Thepro-eeedings of Congress have eclipsed tlifcac-lions of the Executive; and. if thisill shall become a law, the proceedings oClhe-President will sink into absolute nothingness in the presence of the outrages upon personal and public liberty which have been perpetuated by the Congress of -the United States. The Senator from Vermont objects to the bill because it puts a limitation upon already existing powers. Sir, let us look for a moment at the provisions of the bill.

I shall apeak presently of the Senator's notions of the laws of war. The first section of the bill authorizes the President of the United States to declare any of the military districts in a state of insurrection or actual rebellion against the United States. Those military districts are composed of States and of parts of Statts. When the President shall so ad he is authorized to do it in his discretionj there may, or there may not, be insurrection or rebellion the President maysaj there is. and no man shall challenge his to tho measure of his intellect and his heart, has been the chief author of the public misfortunes.

He, and men like him, have brought the country to its present condition." Let him remember, too, sirythat while ancient Rome orthe public liberty were sometimes torn to pieces by the reoplc, yet their memories were, cherished in grateful remembrance; while to be burled the Tarpeian rock was ever the fate of usurpers and tyrants. I reply with the just indignation I ought to feel at such an insult ottered on the floor of the Senate Chamber to a Senator who Is speaking in his place. Mr. President, I shall not longer detain the Senate. My opinions are my own.

I do not believe that I have uttered one opinion here' in regard to this contest that docs not reflect the sentiment of the people I have the honor to represent. If they do, I shall find my reward in the fearless utterance of their opinions; if they do not, I am not a man to cling to the forms of office and to the emoluments of pnblic life against my convictions and my principles; and I repeat what I uttered the other dav, thatif indeed-the Commonwealth of Kentucky, instead Of attemptinij to mediate in this unfortu-natBtruggle, shall throw her energies into the strile, and approve trhecomfuc'. and 'sustain the policy of tho federal Administration in what I believe to be a war of subjugation, and which is being Droved every day to be a war of subj agatioh and annihilation, she may take her course. I am her son, aBd will share her dest nv, but she will be represented by some other man on the floor of this Senate. Geii.

ZolIIcoffer's Proclamation to the People of East Tennessee, Gen. ZoUicoffer, who has the command of the Department of ist Tennessee, has issued this proclamation: To the Teople of East Tennesss: In assuming command of the military forces of this division, I cannot forbear an earnest appeal to all who have preferred the old Union, no longer to resist the recent decisions at the ballot box by overwhelming minorities of the people of Tennessee. The military authorities are not here to offend or injure tbe people, but to it sure peace to their homes, by repelling invasion and preventing the introduction of the horrors or civil war. Treason to the State cannot, will not be tolerated. But perfec freedom of the ballot box has and will be accorded, and no man's rights, property, or privileges shall be disturbed.

All who desire peace can have peace, by q'lietly and harmlessly pursuing their lawful avocations. But Tennessee, having taken her stand with her sister States of the South, her houor and safety require that no aid shall be given within "her borders to the arras ol the tyrant Lincoln. We have asked ot the "North a recognition of our political equality, and have been refused. We have asked for terms merely under which wecould eajoyasense of safety to our property and time-honored institntions, but in vain. Under such circumstances the States of South resolved to submit no longer to long repeated and vexatious intermeddling with our rights.

The North was deaf to justice, because they believed they had the power to crush us if we rebelled. With terrific threats they moved great armies upon us. Those armies have been driven back, with havock and consternation. Heaven has smiled upon the South blessing her with rich harvests and heroic sons. The North is already shaken as wi'h a palsy her 1 ite arrogant soldiers filled with apprehension her late boasted revenues dwindled to a stern necessity for direct taxation.

Can there be recreant sons of Tennessee who would strike at their brothers while thus struggling for Southern honor and independence? or who would iuvile the enemy over the border, to inaugurate war and desolation amid our own fairfields? There can be but few such. If any, it were hotter for their memory had they perished before such dishonor. Let not the Union men of the late contest at the billot box, among whom I personally know 60 many to be patriotic and true men, be carried along by excitement or passion into so deplorable an extreme. Though ditfering upon the late political questions, we are aU Tennesseeans. For the honor and glory or Tennessee let us be, as heretofore, sbouldcr to shoulder in battle, or peacefully at home, not sorrowing when victory perches on the standards of Tennessee regiments.

F. K. ZOLLICOFFER, Brig. General Commanding. LOUISVILLE: 8ATCRDAY MORS1XO AUGrSP 10.

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C. Attention, National Blues. OD are herehy notined to appear at your Armory THIS Saturday erenln', a4o'clk In undress uniform for the purpose of parade. Vr ardrr of Oommandant. II' dl V.

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Louis at Willie IT. Gray'e, North-west corner of Third and Olive streets, opposite the Post Office. tf. To Our Evening Subscribers, We have heretofore been serving onr Sunday edition to our Eyeniug patrons without additional charge. Since we hare enlarged our sheet we cannot afford to do this, and hereafter the Sunday Courier can only be had at the clerk's desk or from news-boys.

It will not be delivered to regular subscribers after this. SPECIAL NOTICE- To our Subscribers, Correspondents, and Exchanges iu the Southern Confederacy. We have to request our friends, corres pondents and exchanges in the Confederate States to direct everything to us to Louisville Courier, Nashville, Tenn." Rev. E. Livingston Wells.

-This learn ed divine, late of Philadelphia, has recent ly located in onr city, at the call of the Vestry of Calvary Episcopal Church, on Third street, and in the brief time he has had charge of this church, has, by his earnestness in the cause of religion, his eloquence and learning, as well as by his urbanity of manners, attracted a laige cir cle of admiring listeners, and promises in a very short time to fill every vacant seat the church. We have been one of the favored audi tors of Rev. Mr. Wells on several occasions, and regard his location among us not only a great acquisition to the church, but to the clergy of the city. Mr.

Wells announced on Sunday last his intention of preaching a sermon especially to Young Jfcn (a fruitful theme) on Sunday (to-morrow) night, and extended an invitation to nil, when the seats will be free. Those who do not attend the church tomorrow night will be the greatest losers. Bellewood Female Seminary. It has for some days been announced through our advertising columns that Rev. Dr.

W. W. Hill would, in connection with Rev. M. M.

Fisher and lady, open a select school for girls at his biautiful residence, near Hobbs' Depot, on the Frankfort Railroad. There is not iu all the State a more delightful, convenient, and healthy location such an institution, and we kinrd nothing iuas6erting that in all the essentials of good teachers, the superiors of Mr. Fisberand his lady are nowhere to be found The proposed school will be a great acquisition to the neighborhood and the State, and its accessibility to Loubsville will no doubt cause it to be appreciated by parents aud guardians here. J3Mr. Louis Jefferson, a worthy and clever gentleman, has purchased the stock and fixtures of the drug store of Dr.

J. Sargent, corner of Seventh and Market streets, and with anew and desirable stock of goods he now asks public patronage. His store is well fitted up, and as Mr. thoroughly understands his business, and is courteous aud obliging, he will win many new patrons to this popular old stand. Adams Express.

Not only every day, but several different times each day, we are indebted to S. A. Jones, of Adams great Express, and his obliging and attentive assistants, for papers from all parts of the globe in advance of the mails, and other valuable attentions. instructor of mnsic, of instructing drummers and lifers, and also a bugler, can find immediate employment and good recompense by applying at Camp Boone, near Clarksville, Tenn, at head quarters of Fourth Kentucky Regiment. auglO d2 PRE.vcmxa at Pkwes Valley.

Rev. Dr. Riee will preach in the Church at Pe wee Valley to-morrow (Sunday) morning, at 11 o'clock. readers will please notice the auction advertisements of Messrs. S.

G. Henry Co. in onr columns this morning. JSTSt. Paul's Episcopal Church will be closed on Sundays nntil further notice, the Rector being out of the city.

ST" A fine rain fell last night. 1ST Monday, August otli, 1SG1, S. Bir ker 317 Fourth street, Louisville, will offer at very low prices 1,000 pieces of domestic goods, of all grades, bleached and brown, from to a yards wide. Also their whole stock of dress goods at greatly reduced prices. Five hundred pieces of lineu goods and house keeping articles very low.

Three hundred pieces of white goods consisting or plain, plaid and striped cambrics, jaconets, Swiss and book musiins, ladies' and gents' linen handkerchiefs, embroidery, and laces. Also 1,000 doz. hosiery of all kinds and sizes. Also carpets, and oil cloths, cheap. Persons visiting the city win iind a full stock of goods at low prices, au 5-d If.

S. BARKER CO. Wolf DmitrxoEK's Colt's Cartridges. Wo are now manufacturing the above cartridges for all sizes nf i tola. Cull nud sic ihem.

We also keep Smith Wessou's cartridges, at wholesale. WOLF JJblliilXGER, JnlyO tf Corner of Fifth and Market. Sr LouUviKe Gold Pen JiSanitfacton Ham Hrat. uw dws bdoxo Third. tOrdtred to he adtertised in the Lorsviu.K Courikh fiffrteabie to the Joltoirinff tection of the 2few Postrtfflce Laic, the Xetcvpaper jtrotid to have btt far the laracst circulation any -tapir jniMixhed in Louisville:) Secx ilnabeit further enacted.

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M'GILL, Wholesale mid Kciail Dealer in and Importer of JltrAKS, TOBACCO, Sii UFF, PIPES. 0.507 Green Bireel. between Third a Fourth, A LAItGK or the best brands cf CI-i OAKS Aim TOJ1ACCO kep constantly cn aum the issue between anv form of government and these priceless principles, that form of government win perish; tney win tear it asunder as the Irrepressible forces of nature rend whatever onnoses them. Mr. President, I shall not long detain the" senate.

1 snati not enter now upon an elaborate discussion of all the principles involved in this bill, and all the consequences, which, in my opinion, flow from It. A word in resaW to what fell from the Senator from Vermont, the substance of which has oeen uttered oy a great many Senators on this floor. What I tried to show some time ago bas been substantially admitted. One Senator says that the Constitution is out aside in a struggle like this. Another Senator eays that the condition of afflilni is altogether aonormol, and tnat you cannot deal with them on constitutional Drincinles, any more than yon can deal bv any of the regular operations of the laws of nature wuu au cunuquanc.

j.ue ocuaiur from Vermont says that all these proceedings are to be conducted according to the laws of war; and he adds that the laws of war require many things to he done which are absolutely forbidden in the Constitu tion: whicn Congress Is prohibited from doing, and all other departments of the Government arc forbidden from doing by the Constitution; but that they are proper under the laws of war, which must alone be the measure of our actiou now. I desire the country, Ihen, to know this fact; that it is openly avowed upon this floor that consttutioiml limitations are no longer to be regarded; but that you are acting just as if there were two nations upon this continent, one arrayed against the other: some eighteen or twenty million on one side, and some ten or twelve million on the other, as to whom the Constitution is nought, aud the laws ot war alone apply. Sir, let the people, already beginning to pause and reflect upon the origin and nature nd the probable consequences of this unhappy strife, get this idea fairly lodged in their minds and it is a true one aud I will venture to say that the brave words which we now hear every day about crush ing, subjugating, treason, aud traitors, will not ue so uueicu me hcal liuic me representatives of the people and the States assemble beneath the dome ol this Capitol. Mr. LANE, of Kansas.

With the con sent of the Senator from Kentucky, I should like to ask him a question. Mr. BRECKINRIDGE. I preferthat the Senator trom Kansas should not at present interrupt me. I shall soon close what I have to say, and then he will be entitled to tho floor.

Then, sir, if the Constitution is really to be put aside, if the laws of war alone are to govern, and whatever may be done by one lndencndcnt nation at war with another. Is to be done, why not act upon that prac tically? I do not hold. that the clause of the constitution wn'cn authorizes con- cress to declare war, applies to anv inter nal difficulties. I do not believe it applies to my of the political communities, bound together under the Constitution, in political association. I regard it as applying to external enemies.

Nor do I believe that the Constitution of the United States ever contemplated thepreservation of the Union of these Slates oy one nan tne states warring on the other half. It details particu larly how military force shall be employed in this Federal system of Government, and it can be employed properly in no other way; it can he employed in am ol the civil tribunals. II there are no civil tribunals. if there is no mode by which the laws of the united States may be enlorccd the manner prescribed by the Constitution, what follows? The remaining States may. if tbey choose, make war, but they do It outside of the Constitution; and the Federal system, as determined by the principles and terms of that instrument, does not provide for the case.

It doei provide for puiui uunii luauiiwuuiis, illegal up risings of individuals but it docs not pro vide, in my opinion, either in its spirit or in its terms, tor raising armies by one half ot the political communities taut compose the Confederacy, for the purpose of subjugating the other half; and the very fact that it does not, is shown by the fact that you have to avow on the floorof the Senate the necessity for putting the Constitution aside, and conducting the whole contest without regard to it, and in obedience solelv tome laws ol war. Then, if we are at war, if it is a case of war, treat it like war. Practically, it is being treated like war. The prisoners whom the United States have taken are not hung as traitors. The prisoners which the other States have taken are not hung as traitors.

It is war. I he Senator is right in savin: it is war; but, in my opinion, it is not only uu umiitpi'j uuiw uut-uuaubuuuuui tvar. Why. then, all these proceedings upon the part of the Administration, refusingtosend or to receive flags of truce; refusing to recognize the actual condition of affairs; refusing to do those acts which, If they do not terminate, may at least ameliorate tne unhappy condition which we find ourselves placed? So much, then weknoiv. We know that admitted violations of the Constitution have been made, and are justified.

We know that we have conicrrea by legislation, and arc, perhaps, still further by legislation to confer, authority to do acts not warranted by the Constitution of the United States. "We have it openly avowed that the Constitution of the Union, which is the bond of Association, at least, be tween those States that still adhere to the Federal Union, is no longer to be regarded. It is not enough to tell me that it has been violated by those communities that have seceded. Other States have not seceded; Kentucky has not seceded; Illinois has not seceded some twenty States yet compose the Federal Union, nominally under this Constitution. As to them, ttnt instrument' iu its tci ms, and in its spirit, is the bond of their connection under the Federal 6ystem.

They have a right, as between themselves and ihcir co-members of the Confederacy, to insist upon its be-iug respected. If, indeed, it is to be put aside, and we are to go into a grent continental struggle, they may pause to inquire what is to'become of their liberties, and what their political connections are to be in a contest made without constitutional warrant, and in derogation ot all the terms of the instrument. How can this be successfully controverted Though you may have a right to trample under foot the Constitution, and to make war (as every power has a right to make war) Dgaiu6t the States that have seceded, have you a right to violate it as to any of the adhering Stales, who insist upon fidelity to its nro- visious? No, sir. Mr. President, wo are on the wrong track; we have been from the beginning.

The people begin to see it. Here we have been hurling gallant feliow3 on to death, and the blooti of Americans have been shed for what? Thev have shown their prowess.irespcetively that which belongs to the race and showing it like men. But for what have the United States soldiers, according to the exposition we have heard here to-day, been shedding their and displaying their danoiless courage? It lias boen to carry out principles that three-fourths of them abhor for theprin-eioies contained in this bill, aud continu ally avowed on the floor of the Senito, ore not shared, I venture to say, by one fourth 1 of the army. I 1 bavo said, sir, Ibat we are on the wrong tack. Nothing but ruin, utk'r ruiu, 10 the North, to the South, to the to the West, will follow the prosecution of; this contesi.

Yon may look forward to innumerable armies you may look ftr- Wiini to countless treasures all spent for the purpose of desolating and ravaging this comment at the cmT leaving us jusx where we are now or if the forces of the United Slates are successful iu lavaging' the whole South, what on earth will be; The bill for the suppression of rebellion being under consideration in the United States Senate, Mr. Brecklnridoe, of Kentucky, said Tarn quite aware, that it is not in order, on a motion to postpone a bill, to into discussion' on its merits, and I shall not violate what I regard as the parliamentary rule. I desire, therefore, now to make but one or two observations. I Bhall vote to postpone this bill. We have had, in my judgment, a great many measures of extraordinary and unconstitutional legislation.

I am glad to see the Senate sioji and stagger before one, and tliat is Senate bill No. 33. I shall vote for the motion, not that I am indisposed to have the bill aired before the country. I would be perfectly willing to see this bill disensscd. I wish it were published in every newspaper in the United States.

I believe that if that were done, it would meet the almost universal condemnation (not to employ a stronger term) of the people. I regard several bills which we have passed as bills for the absolute con-liecation of all property in the seceded Stales, and the eudangring of all property inmostoftnc adheringStates; andattcrwe have by previous bills made preparation and arrangements for the confiscation of property, this bill, by the most elaborate arrangements, provides for the destruction of political and personal rights everywhere. It is a bill, sir, which abolishes, in the discretion of the Executive and of his military subordinates, not only the right to the writ inbetis corpus and the right of trial by jury before civil tribunals for crimes committed by citizens, but it absolutely abolishes, at his discretion, all State governments, all the judicial, executive, aud legsla ive fin stious of the State governments, and authorizes subordinate military commanders to substitute rules and regulations at their will for the laws of the different Commonwealths of this Union, and practically would operate as hardly upon the non-seceded as upon the the seceded States. I consider it, therefore, a bill practically to abolish the State governments, aud every vestige we have remaining of political nud personal liberty. I shall vote fir the postponement; and it it is not postponed, but we enter upon the discussion of it, shall take some occasion before it passes to enlarge upon these ideas.

I do not know how the Senate may vote upon this question; and I have beard some remarks which have dropped from certain Senators which have struck me with to much surprise, that I desire to say a few words in reply to them now. This drama, sir, is beginning to open before ns, and we begin to catch some idea of its magnitude. Appalled by the extent of it, and embarrassed by what they see before them and around them, the Senators who are themselves the most vehement in urging on this course oi events, are beginning to quarrelamong themselves as to the precise way in which to regulate it. The Senator from Vermont objects to this bill because it puts a limitation on what he considers already existing powers on the part of the President. 1 wish to say a lew words presenlly in regard to some provisions of this bill, and then the Senate aud the country may udge of the extent of those powers of wnich this bill is a limitation.

I endeavored, Mr. President, to demonstrate a short time ago, that the whole tendency of our proceedings was to trample the Constitution uuder our feet, and to conduct this contest without the slightest reg.ird to its provisions. Everything that has occurred since, demonstrates that the view I took of the conduct and tendency of public affairs was correct. Already both Houses of Congress have passed a bill virtually to confiscate all the property iu the States that have withdrawn, declaring in the bill to which I refer tint all property of every description in any way to promote or aid in the insurrection! as' it is denominated, shall be forfeited and con-I'seated. i need not say to you, sir, that all property of every kiuu is employed in those States, directly or indirectly, in aid of the contest they are waging, and consequently that bill is a general confiscation of all property there.

As if afraid, however, that this general term might not apply to 6lave properly, it adds au additional section. Although they were covered by the first section of the bill, to make sure of that, however, it adds another section, declaring that all persons held to service or labor, who shall be employed iu any way to aid or promote the contest now waging, shall be discharged from such service aud become free. Nothing can be more apparent than that that is a general act of emancipation; because all the tlaves in that country are employed in furnishing the means ot subsistence and life to those who arc prosecuting the contest; and it is an indirect, but perfectly certain, mode of carrying out the purposes contained in the bill introduced by the Senator from Kansas Mr. Fomeroy. It is doing under cover and by indirection, but, certainly, what he proposes shall be done by direct proclamation of the President.

Ag iin, sir, to show that all these proceedings are characterized by an utter disregard of the Federal Constitution, what is happening around ns every day? Iu the State ot New York, some young man has been imprisoned by executive authority upon no distinct charge, and the military officer having him in charge refused to obey the writ of habeas corpus issued by a Judge. What is the color or excuse lor that action in the State of New Yo rk As a Senator said, is New York iu resistance to the Government? Is there anv danger to the stability of the Government there? Then, sir. what reason will any Senator rise aud give on this floor for the refusal to give to the civil authorities the body of a man taken by a military commander in the State of New York? Again: the police commissioners of Baltimore were arrested by military authori ty without any charges whatever. In vain they asked for a specification. Iu vaiu they have tent a respectful protest to the Con-press of the United stales.

In vain the House of Representatives, by resolution, rtqiiosieu me j. resiueni to lurnish the representatives of the people with the cronnds of their arrest. He answers the House of I Representatives that, in his judgment, the I public interest does not uerinit him to sav I why thej were arrested, on what charges, or what he has done with them; and you call this liberty and law and proceedings for the preservation of the Constitution They have been spirited ofi' from one fortress to another, their locality uuksown, and the President of the United States reins, upon the application of the most nu merous nr.meu ot tne national Legislature, i to furnish them with the grounds or their arrest, or to inform them what ho has done with them. Sir, it was said the other day bv the Sen- atorfrom Illinois (Mr. Browniui;) that I I had assailed the condnct of the Executive, with vehemence, if not with maliguitj'.

I am not aware that I have done 60. I criti- ciscd.witu the freedom that belongs to the representative of a sovereign Slate and the people, the conduct of the Executive. 1 shall continue to do so as long as I hold a i seat on this floor, when, in my opinion. that conduct deserves criticism. Sir, 1 need not say that, in ibe midst of such events as surround us, i could not cherish animosity towarus any human be- ing.

Towards that distinguished officer I never did cherish it. Upon the contrary, I more highly of him, as a man and au than I do of many who are comforts of life. The people will be una- oieto pay tne grinding taxes wmcn nia-natical spirit will attempt to impose upon them. Say, more, sir yon will see lur-ther I hope it is not "the sun set of life gives me mystical lore." but In my; mums eye plainly see "coming events cast snaaow Deiore.7 J.ne Pacific now, doubtless, is devoted to the union of States. Let this Avar go on till they find the burdens of taxation grea'cr than the burdens of a separate condition, and they will assert it.

Let the war go on until they see the beautiful features of the old Confederacy beaten ont of shape and comeliness by the brutalizing hand of war, and they will turn in di3gust from the sickening spectacle, and become a separate natiouT Fight twelve months longer, and the already opening difference that you sec between JJe England and the great Northwest will devel-ope themselves. You have two Confeder acics now. Fight twelve mouths and you will have three; twelve months longer and you will have four. I will not enlarge upon it, sir. I am quite aware that all I say is received with a cheer of incredulity by the gentlemen who represent the far Northeast but let the future determine who was right and who was wrong.

We are making our record here; my humble one, amid the sneers ana aversions oi nearly an wno surround me, giving my votes, and uttering my utterances according to my convictions, but with few approving voices, and surrounded bv ecowIs. The time will soon come. Senators, when history will put her final seal upon these proceedings, and if my name shall be recorded there, going along with yours as an actor in thets scenes, I am willing to abide, fearlessly, her final judgment. I shall detain the Senate, sir, bnt a few moments in answer to one or two of the observations that fell from the Senator from California XT- -nWVJi Cirorrnn Mr! BRECKINRIDGE. The seems to have charge of the whole Pacific coast, though I do not mean to intimate that the Senators from California are not entirely able and willing to take care of their own state, iney are.

ine senator from Oregon, then. Mr. President, I have tried on more than one occasion in the Senate, in parliamentary and respectful language, to express my opinions in regard to the Federal sys tem, tne relations oi tne states to tne Federal Government, to the Constitution, the bond of the Federal political system. Tbey dilfer utterly from those entertained by the Senator from Oregon. Evidently, by his line of argument, he regards this as an original, not a delegated Government, and he regards It as clothed with all those powers which b2long to an original nation, not only with those powers wuiich are delegated by the different political communities tnat compose it, and limited by the written Constitution that forms tho bond of Union.

1 have tried to show that, in the view that I take of our Government, this war is an unconstitutional war. I do not think the Senator from Oregon has answered my argument, ne asks, what must we do As we progress southward aud invade the country, must we not, said he, carry with us all the lawa of war? I would not progress southward and invade the country. The President of the United States, as I again repeat, in myfjudgment, only ha3 the power to call out the mil.tary to assist the civil authority in executing the law3 and when the question assumc-i the magnitude and takes the form of a gnat political severance, aud nearly half the members of the Confederacy withdraw themselves from it, what then I have never held that one State or a number of Statis we a right without cause to break the compact of the Constitution. But what I mean to say is that you cannot then undertake to make war iu the name of the Constitution. Iu ray opinion they are out.

You may conquer them but do not attempt to do it under what I consider falue pretenses. However, sir, I.will not enlarge upon that. I have developed these ideas again and again, and I do not care to reargue them. Hence the Senator and I Start from entirely different standpoints, and his pretended replies are no replies at all. The Sena' or asks me, what would you have us do I have already intimated what I would have us do.

I would have us stop the war. We can do it. I have tried to show that there is none of that inexorable necessity to continue this war which the SenatorAscems to suppose. I do not hold that constitutional liberty on this continent Is bound up in this fratricidal, contest. Upon the contrary, I fear it will find its grave in it.

The Senator is mistaken in supposing that we can reunite these States by war. He is mistaken in supposing that eighteen or twenty million upon the one side can sob- jugate ten or twelve million upon the oth er; or, it they do snryugate them, that you can restore constitutional government, as our fathers made it. You will have to govern them as Territories, as suggested bv the Senator, if ever they arc reduced to the dominion of the United States, or, as the Senator from Vermont called them, "those rebellious provinces of this Union," in his speech to-day. Sir, I would preler to sec these States all reunited upon true constitutional principles to any other ob ject that could be offered mc in life and 10 restore upon lug priucipiett ui our iaiu-ers. the Union of these States, to me the sacrifice of one unimportant life would be nothiug nothing, sir.

But I infinitely prefer to see a peaceful separation of these states, than to sec endless, aimless, de-vasting war, at the end of which I see the grave of public liberty and of person il lreedom. The. Senator asked if a Senator of Rome had uttered these things in the war be-tweenCarlboge and that power, how would he have been trenfed? sir, the war be tween Carthage and uoine was auogciuer dill'erent from the war sow waged between the United States and the Confederate States. I wonld have said rather luau avow the principle that one or the other must be subjugated, or perhaps destroyedlet Carthage live, aud let Rome live, each pursuing its own course of policy and civilizition. The Senator savs that these opinions which I thus expressed, and have heretofore exorc-ssed.

are but brilliant treason; and that it is a tribute to the character ot our institntions that 1 am allowed to utter them noon the Senate floor. Mr. President, if "I am. speaking treason, I am not aware of it. I am speaking what I believe to be for the good, of my country.

II 1 am speaking frcaSsn, I am speaking it in my pbee iu the Senate. By whose indulgence am I speakteg? Not by any mun'a indulgence. I am speaking by tbe guarantees of thai Constitution which eeems to be here now so little And, sir, when he asked what wonld htve been done with a P.omau Senator wbo had uttered such a certain Senator on this llojr, whose courage has much risen of late, replies in audible tones, "he would b-eve been hurled from tbe Tar-paian rock." Sir, if ever we find an American Tarprian a suitable victim is to be selec.ed, the people will not to me, but to thai Seizor who, accoruing assertion when that is done, the military- commanders in those respective states or military districts shall give notice thereof, and what then follows It provides in the secend section that any military commander in one of those States or districts shall make and publish such police rules and regulations, conforming as nearly as may be to previously existing laws and regulations not mere police rules and regulations, but just such rules and regulations as he may desire, conforming as nearly as he may choose, in his discretion, to the existing laws of the several States or military districts, "and all the civil authorities within said districts shall be bound to carry said rules and regulations Into efrect." They are subordinated, at the scretiou of the President, to the dictation of any of his subordinate military commanders. The third section provides: "That if. from anv cause whatever, the aaid civil authorities fail to execute the said raiefl and regulations" So made by this subordinate military commander "the said military commander shall cause them to be est eatod and onforced by the military loree uuuer nis commanu.

The fourth section authorizes, not the President, but any military commander in any ot tnese districts, generals, coioucis, majors, captains if one of them should be the commander of a military district, iu his discretion to suspend the writ o( habem corpus, ana make return that he will not obey, to any judge tnat may issue it. Then, sir, if any person not a camp fol lower, not any one subject to the rules and articles oi war out any person "Shall be found In arms against the -Unitod States or otherwise aiding and abettiiii; their enemies or oppouers, within any district of country to wnicn it relates, anu snan nc taKen by the forces of the United State, Bhall be either detained as prisoners for trial on the charge of treason or sedition, or other crimes and offenses which they may hnve committed whilst resulting the tiutnoriiy oi tne united State; or may, according to tile circumstances of tne case This to be judged of by this military commander "be at once placed before a court-martial, to be dealt with according to the rules of war in respect to unorganized arid lawless armed oauae, not rccognizea ae regular iroops. Or in h's discrrtiou may be discharged unon narole. The Constitution of the United States declares that the crime of treason and all other crimes shall be tiled bv a inrv. and not by a military command er; or a drum-head court-martial.

The power to Eusp-'nu tne naotax corpus wnicli Congress may do by the Constitution but cannot delegate to the President, or any 6ne else, it is proposed oy this bill to authorize the President to delegate to anv subordinate military authority a power which he does not mmscii possess. The sixth section provides that "No ncntcncc of death, pronounced br a court-martial upon any person or persons taken in arms as aforesaid, shall be executed before it has been submitted to the commander of the military department within which the conviction has taken place, or to the Commanding General of the Army of the United Sentence of death mpy be passed upon any person under these circumstances, with the approval cither of the General-in-Chief of the Army or of the subordi nate military commander who may have the control ol the district which he is taken. Sir, I do not at present comment upon the seventh section, in rcgird to persons pnt upon parole; nor the eighth section, which provides that any military commander may cause any person suspected of disloyalty to the United States to be brought before him, and may administer, or cause to be administered, to such person an oath of allegiance a very peculiar oath an oath not alone to support the Constitution of the United States, bnt to bear true allegiance to many other things not provided for in the Constitution of the United States. There is no legitimate oath which can be put upon any one except an officer under the Government, and that oath is limited to a support of the Constitution of the United States; aud I think the public liberties are at a low ebb when any militiry commander may seize, throughout the length and breadth of the land, any citizen suspected merely, and compel him to lake such an oath as is prescribed in this bill. Then, Mr.

President, without disenssing the other points at present, how does it sum up Let mc take the State of Kentucky, for example. That State is a military district. Suppose that, for any cause, the President may choose to say that that State is in a condition of insurrection or rebellion, though she has suffered enough from violations of the Constitution committed by the Executive; although she has been clinging with her characteristic fidelity to the Union of the SLitcs: he is to be sole judge of the facts; he is to declare that Kentucky, for example, is in a state of insurrection or rebellion. What follows The military commander in charge of the United States forces in the district may then publish just such rules and regulations for the government of that Commonwealth as he may choose, making them confoimns nearly as he may, in his discretion, to the existing laws of the State; and the civil authorities of that Siatcareto be bsundby the rules and regulations of this military it they do not execute them, he is then to see that they are executed by the military force under his command. What is sir, bnt vesting first in tho discretion ot the President, to bebybim detailed to a subaltern military commander, the authority to enter the Commonwealth of Kentucky, to abolish the State, to abolish the Executive, the Legislature, and the judiciary, and to substitute just sucu rules lor tne government ot its pco pie as that military commander may choose? Well might the Senator from Delaware Suulsbury) say that this bill contains.

provisions coul'etring authority which never was exercised in the worst days of Rome, by the worst of her dicta-! tors. I have wondered why the bill was introduced. I have sometimes thought that possibly it was introduced for the purpose of preventing the expression ol" that reaction which is now evidently going on in the public mind against these procedures so fatal to Constitutional liberty. The army may be thus used, to collect the enormous direct taxes I'or which preparation is now being nude by Congress; and if in any part of Illinois, or Indiana, or New Yoi ora-y State North or South, there shall be difficulty, or resistance, the President in his discretion may declare it to be in a sutto of insurrection, all the civil authorities may be oveilhrown, and his military commander may make rules and regulations, collect tuxes, and execute the laws at liia pleasure. Mr.

President, gentlemen talk about the Union as if it was an end instead of a menus. They about it as if it was the I Union of these Suhce which alone had A Man Saved AfterBeing Eight Days Without The schooner Bern-ditch sailed from New York on the 3d for St. Anil's Bay, Jamaica, and on tho 19ih encountered a hurricane, when a tremendous w.ivc boarded her and washed the house off the deck, and took both masts with it. At tbe time, all hands were on deck, and every one of the crew were carried overboard by the sea, and nothiug was ever seen of them afterward. Capt.

Perkins, who was also washed overboard, succeeded in getting hold of the main boom, and subsequently, after much difficulty, in re-giiniug the deck of the vessel. The schooner now lay in the trough of the sea, which was making a clean breach over her. The deck lord was washed overboard, and the fresh water casks shared the same fate. On the 11th, the weather cleared np, and the sea weul down, but there was nothing in sight, and a search for food revealed the unpleasant fact that the food could not be got at, as the vessel was fall of water. Capt.

Perkins did not suffer much for food and water for the lirst two days, but on the third day the cravings of hunger and the desire to have something to quench his thirst, became very painful; nevertheless, he bore up manfully, expecting to soon fall iu with some passing vessel. In this weary watching, and want food and water, did eight ioinj days pass before any relief presented itself. Tho schooner C. Fantuazzi hove in sight, supposed she was a wreck and would have passed her, but Capt. Perkins made signals with a plank; This attracted the attention of the schooner, aud ou running down, Captaiu Perkins wjs fonad in a very emaciated condition, 'amd the sea had washed nearly all ol the clothing from his body.

He was taken on board and carefully nursed, and arrived at New York on Saturday. The Army in Western Virginia. Headquarters Army of Occitatios, 1 Western Virginia, Clakkshurg, July 3Slh, 1S01. GENERAL OP.DliltS No. 3.

Numerous instances of plunder, by teimstcrs in the employment of the United Stites QuartcrmaHci'a Department and others ot citizens i-iong me train routes, having been reported or discovered, it is hereby ordered 1. No officer nor soldier, nor person em-Dlovcd in Ihe service of the United States, fiimli enter the houses or enclosures of in habitants of Western Virginia, without nermission from the owners thereof, ex cept in cases of absolute necessity, nor snail tne' use inn-ai imimiuaue.i iu obtain such consent. It is also forbidden to take food, or other property, without absolute necessity, nor theu, without providing full compensation therefor. Persons violating these prohibitions will be regarded as ticspassers and plunderers and most severely punished. 2.

Commanders oi trams, auu troops moving, will be held responsible for the observance of these prohibitions, by those uuder their command, and a failure therein, or to report offenders for punishment, will expose them to be tried as v.tr-Mcinaturs in the crime. is earnestly en joined on all officers to do their utmost to terret out- tne perpetrators oi im.iuu'.-.- the rights of citizens, by persons apparently in Government employ, in order that thieves aud nhindc-rcrs, who follow tho army or attach themselves to may be prevented from disgracing our jirms. Lv oruer OI ung. viciiciai C. KIXUS3URY, Act.

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