The New-York Tribune Newspaper, June 9, 1866, Page 1

@ribune, PRICE FOUR CENTS. y - v \ & YT T vor. XXVL.N% 7854, NEW-YORE, SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1866. s > ' " it R ¢ RS, 15 TP i an idle, i ckery. to contend | overation, they had not power either to adopt a new con- ing the war. The testimony ou this poiut came from officers N INTERESTING QUESTIQN. RECONSTRUCTTO States and the conditions imposed by bim upon theirac- | tons. 1t is more than 46 L% GO e nce, | siitation br o amend Amold. one without the consent of | of the Union army, officers of tho Iate T:ebel army, Ustom ible toattacks f bolers ! 3 : tion, in any othe light than s intimations fo the pecese destro; c‘d Jw local government which bound their States the people. Nor could either a convention or & legisla- | men of the Southern States, and avowed Socessionizts, als i SR S A (hat, as Commander-in-Chief of the Army, he would con- | o ns Union as. members thereof, defied its authority, | ture change. the fundamental law without power. it wost all of whom state that, in ticir opinion, the peopie o Evidently those affecied with aay disesss of the stomach, liver, O e sent to withdraw military rule just in proportion as they | refused o execute its laws, and abrogated all that gave | viously conferred. ‘11 the view of your Committee, it fol- | tho rebellious States would, if they should see & prospech f the organs sppertainiog to d on. This class of pers: . P 1 ¢ 1 e hould by th t ifest disy ositic ‘( sreserve or- | them political rights within the Union, still retain, throt lows, therefore, that the people of a State where the con- ohny-rm, repudiate the Nationaf debt. 4 ) sy of the orgens appertain , 3 "‘;p“" 0' ““. (0""".«")"“] ((,mm“".‘. should by their acts w & disposition fo presorvelss | Ly Tyl petfect and entire right to resumeat their own Will | stitution has thus been amended might feel themselves | While there ix scarcely any hope or desire among lead- Al il ho ek it o cuizt (1 it (07 708 el ' | der smong themselves, establish governments denoting | Ak the perfectand cntee et o b o on and especially | justified in repudiating altogether such uusuthorized as: | Ing men to renew the attempt at Secoasion st asy fubure sessed of strong lihy digostive crguns. e e T loyalty to the Union and exhibit a settled determinat.on pate in its ment and to control the conduct | sumptions of power, aud might be expected to do so at | tiwe, there is still, aceording to a large number of wite o | of its affairs. To admit such a principle for one moment pleasure. nesses, including A. 1. StepLons, who may be regarded ood authority on that point, a generally prevailing opi flin which defends the lggul 1 h! of Snezsfnn, and Sphsldu_ the doctrine that the first allogiance of the people is due to the States, and not to the United States. ’l‘fm belief™ evidently prevails among leading and prominent men well a8 among the masses, anywhere, except in rome ol the northern countics of Alabama and the eastern counties STATE GOVERNMENTS IRREGULARLY ORGANIZED. So far as the :x[‘n‘minnn of the people of the insurrec- tionary States, and the probability of adopting measures conforming to the changed condition of atfairs, can be in- ferred from the papers submitted by the President as the basis of this action, the prospeets are far from encourag- | to return to their allegiance, leaving with the law-making The Course of the President Reviewed, and the | power to fix the terms of their fiual restoration to ail thelr N i rights and privileges as States of the Union., That this is Powers of President and Congress Defined, the view of Lis power taken by the President, is evident from expressions to that effect in the communications of store end keep would be to declare that treason i8 always master, and loy- alty a blunder, Such a principle is void by its ven nature and essense, because inconsistent ~wil the theory of government, and fatal to its very existence. On the contrary, we assert that no portion of the people of have the right, The question then naturally arises, how shall we 1e 1 We answer. by st these orgaus Iu & healthy and normal condition temtion to diet, svoiding all umdue excitement, using moderste exer: | else, avoiding all intoxlcating drinks, no matter in what form pre- | conntry, either in State or Ternitory, sented, and by the use, secording to directions, of that great strenzth ———— - . thi o A the Seeretary of State to the various Provisional Governors | whije remaining on its soil, to withdraw from nrkmwit ing. l)t aqpmlrlquil(n t'lcur‘ljh;l :hu ,m(m-sl.w'-ry amend- . i s et et ‘ and tho repcated declarations of the President Limself. | the authority of the United States, They must acknowl: | ments both to the Stato and Federal Constitutians were | of b e ’ 1] HoorLasns arraax nrerens. | Reconstruetion the Proper Charge of the it oikiis L VTR ST IEE e B U e have o rght. 1o secods, and | adopted with reluctanco by the bodies which dil adopt | Theevidence of an intene bostlity to the Feders b This BITTER sompoand of fluid extracts. The roots and =i e . i ey can destroy their State govermments and place | them, while in some States they havo either been passed | ion and an equafly intense love of tie late Confederayy( e QIETEAD W 3 oompony o5 2 pute to the President designs of encroachment upon a co- | {0 GOSN the palo of the Union, so far as the ex- | by in'silence or rejected, The language of ll the provi uartured by the war, is decisive. While it appears thisg v nearly all are willing to submit, at least for the time being, ! Law-Making Power, ¢ branch of the Government, which should not be | ercise of State privileges is concerned, they eannot escape r the nhh;:dunull imposcd upon them by the Constitution to Federal authority, it is equally clear that the rulicg ording sions or ordinances of those States awount to nothing 1l gathered in Germany, snd thewr | more than an unwilling on of an un: truth. herbs from which it is made are irtucs, i the form of extracts, extracted by one of the most scientific -— lightly uftributed to the Chicf Magistrate of the nation. . i i bo pow ¥ by s, Hie "‘\:”’ Iy (.' .mm“,n" Um(“ Elkiree af e A 1o | and laws, nor impair the exercise of National anthority, | As to the ordinance of ssion, it isin some 8 moti a desire to'obtain the advantages which will untry sffords. It lien Congress assembled in December last, the people | AHEREER S8 UPEE Gill bo observed, does not act upon | clared * null and void,” and in others simply repealed derived from @ representation in Congress. Officers off the Union army on duty, 2nd Northern men who go there. Aly heresy | | to engage chemiets and pharmacentists NOT A LIQUOR PREPARATION e word; contains no whisky, uin, or sny other in and in noinstance is a refutation of this considered worthy & place in the new Constitution, If, a8 the I’ruivan! assumes, these insurrectionary States were at the close of the war wholly without State government, it would scem that before being admitted in such governments should be Ilegal Organization of State Governments Exposed, and Revival of the Spirit of Secession Portrayed, States, as such, but upon the people, While, therefore, the people to exist in an organized form, they thus dissolve their politieal relations with the United States. That taxation should be only with the consent of the taxed through their own representatives, is a cardinal all free governments; but it is not true that | the direction of public affairs, of most of the States lately in Rebellion had, under the ad- vice of the President, organized local governments, and some of them had acceded to the terms proposed by him. In his annual message he stated, in general terms, what in business are generally detested and pro< seribed. Men who adhered to the” Union are bitterly, hated avd selentlessly persocuted. In some localiticd sroseentions have been instituted in Courts agains€ "nmn officers for acts doue in the line of official dutyy 1o any rense of Soxicating ingredients, and can be freely used in families without eny | t contracting the disease or vice of intem Pear or risk of the e o wi distinetly understood, as many are apt to —— had been done, but he did not see it to communicate the | principle of ¢ . ‘s perance. W t distinetly un s D details for the information of Cougress. While in this | taxation and representation must go together under all | regularly organized. Long usage has established, and nu- | and similar prosccutions are \hxe-ug.:;i elnl\‘thel;rn,-m: eonfound this BITTERS with the muny others before the public pre- i . S o | circumatances, and at every movemeut of tize. Tl peo- | merony statutes liave otnted out the mode in which this | a8 the United States troops are removed. ~ Al such demon pored from Hqcor of some kind Guaranties of Peace and Freedom to be Required | audin o subscquent messige, the President urged the | i of ho District of Columbia, and of all the Territorics | should be done. A cotivertion to form o form of govern. | strations show a state of feeling against which it is unmise : speedy restoration of these States, and expressed the | o taxed, although not represented in Congress. | ment should be assombled under competent anthority, | takably necessary to guard. Ordinarily, this authority emanates from Congress; but, The testimony is conclusive that after the collapse of ou! the Confederncy the feeling of the people of the rebe opinion that their condition was such as to justify their | If it is true that tho people of the States, or States was that of abject submission, ~Having appealed to from the Rebellions States. the people of the so-called Coufederate States, had no right s, your Committee i3 not During the under peenliar circumstance CHOLERA SE ON restoration, yet it is quite obvious that Congress must ¢ < $ ER " - —— R i 2 g . st [ Lo Birow off the authority of the United States, it is | disposed to eriticisethe President’s action in assuming the of 1000 thie BITTERS wis nisncivaly seed thronghost (be enre ither have acted Biudly on that opigion of the President, ..‘,"Lh"- true that they are bound at all times to share the ;;v‘;lnxmvlrfll by him in this regard. The convention, | the tribunal of arius, they had no hope except that, by the somiry THE ULTIMATUM OF CONGRESS. roceeded to obtain the information < for intel" | birdens of governmént, They cannot cither legally or | when assembled, should frame o constitution of goveri- | Maknaninily of their conquerors, their lives and_posibly | AS A PREVENTIVE, i i g b ‘ction on the subject. The impropriety of proceed- | cquitably refuse to_bear thir just proportion of theso | ment, which should be subitted to the people for adop- | ¢ At property might be preserved. Unfortunately, the and we have uot heard of o siugle instance in which this BITTERS was & TR ing wholly on the judzument of any oue man, however ex- | hirdeus by voluntarily abdicating their Tights and privi- | tion. If adopted, s Legislature shonld be convened to pass | general issue of pardons to persous ‘who had_been prowi= = alted his station, in 8 matter involving the welfare of the | Joges ns States of the Union, and refusing to be repre- | the laws necessary to carry it into effect, When a State | net in the Rebellion, aud the feeling of kindliness and & | q i by the Executive and very gener= Congress, the thus organized claims representation in ded for by law, ion of representatives should be p ation, much less by rebel sented in the councils of the To hold lion against National authority and levying war. eonciliation manife od Republic in all future tim any ‘rlun. com- tanding all its | ally indicated throngh the Northern press, had the effect? ssed where the person suffered from any of the sywptonss of Cholers. elect The following is the final report of the Reconst The great streogtlening Tonic, 8 L ing from any source, 3 rthern ‘ Committee, submitted by Mr. Fessenden to the § bearings, and comp! uding its full effect, was apparent. | ghat, by so doing, they could e taxation, would be to | in accordance with the laws of Congress regulating repre- | to render whole eo forgetful of the criwe they offer o permission for insurrection—to reward instead of | sentation, and the proof that the action taken has been in | bad eommisted, detiant toward the Federal Government, was 1o obtain the required in- | Theconcilistory The first step, 1 and regardless of their dutiesas citizens. HOOFLAND'S GERMAN BITTE yesterday. Tt was signed by all the Republican members c : A call was accordingly made on the President | punishing treason. To hold that, as soon as government | conformity to law should be submitted to Cougress. opted by the conventions will eure of the Committee except Messts. Washburne and Blow, | 6,05 formation in his § at had been | Dy restoredt to ite full authority, it cen be allowed no time | In no case have these essential preliminaries been taken, | measures of the Government do Dot seem to have beein DEBILITY! DEBILITY! who wero absent. done, in order that Cougress wdge for itself a8 10 | 1o gecure itself agai s in the future, OF | The conventions assembled secm to have assumed that | met even half The bitterness and defiance exbibited cesulling from any caose whatever. The Joint Committee of the two Houses of Congress | the grounds of the belicf ex; 1 hy him in the fitness | ojse omit the ordinary constitutional power | the Constitution, which had been repndiated and over- | toward the Urifed States, under such circumstancee, is ace N OF THE SYSTEM, appointed under the concurrent resolution of Dec. 13, | Of the Statcs rocently In o participate fully in | to compel equal contrib toward the expanses | thrown, was still in existence, and operative (o constitute | without a parailel in the history of the world, 'In returny PROSTRATIO! S SYSTEM, 1865, with dire % e & b 3iti ¢ the conduct of Natior afiairs. This informn- | of goverument, would be unreasonable iu itself and unjust | the States members of the Union, and to have contented | for our leniency we receive only an insulting denial of our indaced by 65, with direction * o inquire into the condition of the | tjon was not immedtely comu ted. When | b “the Nation. 1t is sufficient to reply that the loss of | themselves with such amendiments as they wero informed | authority, In retura for our kind desire, for the resumje SEVERE HARDSHIPS States which formed the so-called Confederate es of | the response was finally e some = SIX | represe »u by the people of the insurrectionary States | wore requisite in order to insure them wu immediate re- | tion of fraternal relations, we receive only au insolent ag- e America, aud report whether they or any of them are en- weeks after your Committee bad boen i actual session, it | was their own voluntary choice. They might abandon | turn to a participation in the Government of the United | sumption of rights and privileges long since forfeited, AR RN titled to be represented in either House of C th | as found that the evidence upon w > bad | thei teges, but they could not escape their obligations. | States. ot W ahiug to sscertain. whether tho people thus | The crime we have punished is paraded asa virtue, and FEVERS, | Wtled 10 Do Tepresentod i civies LOWH ngress, With | 1.0 his suggestions was incomplete and unsatisfactory. 1l v they have no right to_complain if, before re- | represented wosld adopt even the proposed amendiments, | the principles of Republican Government which we have - leave to report by bill or otherwise,” ask leave to report: { copies of the new Constitutions and or (ose privileges, and while the people of the | they at once ordered clections of Representatives 1o Con- | vindicated at so ternble & cost, are denounced a8 unjust three of the tates are devising measures for the public safety, | gress, in nearly all instances before an Executive had been | and oppressire, | If we add to this evidence the fact that, although peace | chosen to issue writs of election under the State laws, and That they have attended to the duties assigned them as nish '; pished 253 i e d b ) subimit o ary by the act of who thus di g ENS, assiduously as other duties woald permit, and now submit i d o s d : R sy ; : scanty information wnd | chiged themselves, they are compelled to coutribute their | such electious as were held wers ordered by the conven- | has been declared by the President, he has not, to this - of taxation incurred | tions. Iu one instance, at least, the writs of election wero |"day, deemed it safe to restore the writ of habeas corpus, to to Congress, as the result of their dcliberations s resolu- tion proposing amendments to the Constitution and two bills, of which they recommend the adoption. Before proceeding to set forth in detail the reasons to nothing mainder. Fhere was no ¢ who had participated 1 th itions, and it one Sta alone w position mad mif the action of the | the finnl judgment of the pec ppears to have been communicated of the loyalt { {un proportion of the general bu | By their wickedness and folly. Equally absurd is the pre- tense that the legislative authority of the nation must be inoperative so fur as they are concerned, while they, by their own act, have lost the right to take part in i relieve the insurrectionary States of wartial law, nor to roops from’ many localities, and that the -ueral deoms ad increase of the army ine the preservation of order and the protectio aring irregnlari- | t | withdraw the Commandin dispensuble signed by the Provisional Governor. ties and unwarrantable assumptions of power are 1 | in several cases, particulaly in South Carolina, wh ntion, although dis MALE OR FEMALE, ADULT OR YOUTH, will find in this BITTERS tonic, not dependent on bad liquors for thelr almost miraca = rpwsins el ’ b . Aok 12 o ¥ s ) b i ot which, after great deliberation, your Committee have ar- in_the desired iforuatios, aad left to | Sich & proposition causes its own refutation_on, its face. | ernor on the ground that it was @ revolutionary body, as- | of loyal and well-tisposed p Join the Soath, the proo Ates ook, ¢ rived, they beg leave to advert briefly to the course of t be found, your Commit- | While thus exposing fallacies which, as your Committee | sumed to redistrict the State. | of a conviction of feeli tile to the Union and danger- This BITTERS will cure the most severe cases 0 rodssdt oy fonnd it nex o%e , withont clieve, are resorted to for the purpose of misleading the It is quite evident from all these facts, and indeeed from | 0us to the Government throughout the insurrectionary DYSPEPSIA proceedings they found it necessary to adopt, and to ex | } | 1 > 3 0 - 0 g oy B lain the reasons therefo 5 a8 | people, Tud distracting their attention from the questions | the wholo mass of testimony submitted by tho President | Stiles, would scew to be overwhelming. -4 and diseases resulting from disorders of the digestive organs, andis | PIBiL the reasons therelor. = i | 8t 1ssud reely aduit that such o condition of things | to the Senate, that, in no instance, was régard paid to any | With such evidence before them, it is the opinion of the only sure. certain and wafe remedy for The resolution under which your Committee was ap- | force, to suspend wmartial store the writ should” 5 Ihrought, if possible, to a speedy termination, | sideration than obtaining immediate admission | yonr Committee: habeas corpus, but still t essary to exerc It is modet absirable that the union of all the States should | he barren form of an election, in which |~ I That the States lately in Rebellion were, at the closs taken to secure of the war, disorganized communities, without ¢ivil gove LIVER COMPLAINTS, arity of proceed pointed directed them to inquire iuto the condition of the All are more or less affected duting the Spring and Fall, w rt whether they were entitled of the rebellions States This couclusion de ilitary power aver the pe« ved still greater become perfect at the earliest possible mome istent and jarisdiction. with the peace and welfare of the nation; that all these ernment, and without constitutions or other forms by vir ith tor went of the people. Confederate States, and re of that § tant organ of digestion, the liver. T! ITTERS, A n M " 4 it % 1 #“’_":"’n:‘m”:; P emertica of mascary, o by pargag,sets | %0 Tepresentation in Congress. 1t is obvious that such | force from the fact, undisputed, that in all these States, | States should become fully represented in the ‘Constitution has been legally adopted, except, per- | tue of which political relations could legaly exist between powerfully on this organ, excites it to heaithy snd lively uction, aud | A1 investigation, covering so large an extent of temitory | €Xcept Tem «lr- and w‘ aps Arkinsas, ll.m elections | National councils, and take their sharo of the | haps, by the State of Tennessee, aud such elections as have them and the Federal Government. ivee 8 toue o the whole & bence and involving so wany important considerations, must which were held for State officors and_ Members of Coo- | jogislation of the _conntry. The possession and | been'beld were without anthority of law, Your Com. | IL That Congress cannot be expected to recognize ag D -~ A sl s b ENOTH i y p gress had resulted st universally in the defeat of can- | exercise of more than its just share of power by an mittee are accordingly forced to the conclusion that the | valid the election of men from disorganized communities, HMEALTH, ENERGY AND STREN neeessarily require no trifling labor, and consume a very | didates who had been true to the Union, and in the election | tion i distractin, 1 deworalizing in its tende | States reforred to have not placed themselves in condition | which, from the very nature of the case, were upable to cousiderable amount of tume. It must embrace the con. | Of notorious and uupardor Loels, sorie who could not | o a1l otbers, and sue tate of affairs is only to be | to claim representation in Congress, unless all the rules rr.-m.uhem-mnn 10 representation under those estab- ont been | lished aud recognized rules, the observance of which bas take the place of | which have sinee the foundation of the Gover! deomed essential in such cases should be d: [ tolerated on the ground of & necessary regand to the pub- lic safety. As soon as the safety is secured it should ter Y ribed oath of of X been bitherto required. Sickness, Debility and Lawitude. 111, That Congress would not be justified in admitting BITTERS garded. dition in which thoso State were left at the clese of the ernment and pe HOOFLAND'S GERMAN . will cure every case of war, the measures which had been taken toward the reor- circumstances anything like | minate ur Committee came to the consideration of | 1t would, undoubtedly be eompetent for Congress to ganization of civil government, and the disposition of the | hasty action would have been as dangerous as it was obvie | the subject referred to them with the most auxious desire | waive all formalities, and to admit the Confederate States | such communities to a participation in the Government of 10 1 the country without first providing such constitutional oe Chronic or Nervous Debility, to your Committee that but ously unwise. to investigate thoroughly aud | one course remained, viz. It appeare 10 ascertain what was the condition of the people of the o esentation at once, \rn-lin{vllmz time and experi- Iy in insurrection, and what if anything was | ence woukd set all things right, Whether it would be ad other guarantees as will tend to secure the civil rights of Disesses of the Kidoeys, | people toward the United States—in 8 word, their fitness Aud Diseases arisiog from s Disordered | ¢ o e admi " Ny . R | . 0 take an active part iu. the admivistration of Natioual | carefully the state of fecling existiug amoug the peaple of | . them to the full en- | visablo to do so, however, must depend on other consider- | all citizens of the republic, a just equality of representa- Observe the following symptoms resulting from disorders of the di- | affairs. | 8, to ascertain how far their pretes ded loyalty” | {.._n..«m of o It was undenia of which it ren to treat. But it may well be | tion, protection against cleims founded in rebellion acd gestive organs | As to their condition at the close of the Rebellion, the | elied upon, and thence to infer whether it would | blo that the ad plunged the observed that *he induc 10 such step should bo of | crinie, and, at least, & temporary restriction of the right of | | be safe to admit thewm at ouc a full participation in the | try had naturally relations to th the very hiy haracter. s mot unreasonable to | snffrage to those who hare not act participated in the 0 lusion from posi- AL ANTRA fio [l T iy ovidence that the | effort to destroy the Union, and the Covstipstion, Inwazd Piles, Fullness of Blood to the Head, Acidity of | gvidence is open - « - iy Government they bad fought for four years to destroy. | pdople of the loyal States, Slavery has been ol Your Comuiittee fo require the Stomach, Neuses, Heartburu, Disgust for Food, Ful ‘neas or Weight in the Stomach, Sour Eructs- tions, Sinking or Fluttering st the Pit of the Stomach, Swimming of the Head, Hurried and Difficalt Breatbivg, Flottering st the Heart, Cheking or Suffocating Sensations when v lying Posture, Dimness of Vision, Dote or Webs before the Sight, Fever end Dull ¥ain in the Hesd, De- | Sclency of Perspiration, Yellowness of the Skin and Eyes. Pain in the Side, Back, Chest, Limbe, ke. &c., Sodden Flushes of Hest, Buming i the Pieah, Constant Imaginiugs of Evil, and great Depression of Spirits. We have s host of testimonials from all parts of the country, but | space will allow of the publication of but few of thew; heuce we | esiect those of well-known persons whose intelligence and discrimi mation are beyond doubt, and we will pay one thoussnd dollazs to auy ‘one producing s certificste published by us that is not genuise. RECOMMENDATIONS. Hon. James Thompson, Judge of the Supreme Court of Pennsyleania PatapripEis, April 28, 1966, | 1 consider HOOFLAND'S GERMAN BITTERS a valoable medi- | cine in case of attacks of Indigeation or Dyspepsia. 1 can certify this from wy expetience of it. Yours, with respect. JAMES THOMPSON. From A. McMakin, esq., New- York, No. 663 Broadway, March 29, 1866, Daan S1x: 1 take great plessure in testifying to the extraordinary remedial qualities of the HOOFLAND'S GERMAN BITTERS pro- cured st your establishment. A member of ¢ Tias been for many years & perfect martyr to Dyspepsis, Pal of & torpid liver, until persusded o try the sbove celeb which in & few weoks resulted iu making her (to use ber “n mew woman.” You are at liberty to make any use of this you ses fit, or refer sim ar sullerers Lo yours truly, A MCMAKIN. From John B. Wickerham, esg., Arm of Wickersham & Hutchison, the celebrated Manufacturers of Fancy Irom Works, No. 2 Canal st 1 am the recipient from you of one of the grestest favors that can be | conferred upon wan, viz, that of bealth, For many years have [ welfered from one of the most sunoying snd debilitating semplaints ¢thet the buman family can be aficted with—chronie diarrbes. During the long time | was suffering from this disecse ] was attended By regular physicians, giving me but temporary relisf. The cause ssemed to remain until | was induced to try HOOFLAND'S GER- MAN BITTERS. Alter the use of a few botties of that valuable wedicine the complaint sppeared to be completely eradicated. 1often Anwardly thank you for such & valuable specifc, sud, whenever [ have wn opportunity, cheerfally recommend it, with full confidence in ite reliabllity. Traly yours, JUHN B. WICKERSHAM. New-York, Feb. 2, 1862, Wrom Rev. Levi J. Beck, Pastor of the Baptist Church, Pemberton, N 1., formerly of the North Baptist Church, Philadeiphia, at present Pastor of the Baptist Church, Chester, Penn. . . . . . . . 1 bave knows HOOFLAND'S GERMAN BITTERS favorably for s wumber of years. | bave used them in my own family, sod have boen 0 pleased with their effocts that | was luduced to recommend them to ‘wany others, and know that they bave opersted io a strikingly benefi- ial manoer. 1 take great pleasure in thus publicly prociaimiug this fact, and ealling the aitention of those sfficted with the diseases for ‘which they are recommended 10 thess BITTERS, knowing from ex- perience that my recommendation will be sustained. 1 do this more eheerfolly s HOOFLAND'S BITTERS is intended to bevefit the afflicted, aud is “uot & rum drink.” Yours, truly, LEVI J. BECK. From Ree. W. D. 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Having protracted their struggle against Federal authorities until all hope of successful resistance had ceased, and laid down their arms ouly because there was no longer any power to use them, the people of these States were, when the Rebellion was crushed, * deprived of all civil government,” and must proceed to organize anew. In his conversation with Mr. Stearns of Massachusetts, certified by Limself, President Johnson said: ¢« The State institutions are prostrated, laid out on the ground, and they must be taken up and adapted to the progress of events.” Finding the Southern States in this condition, and Congress having fuled to provide for the contingency, Lis duty was obvious. As President of the United States he had no power ex cept to execute the laws of the land, as Chief Magistrate, Those laws gave him no suthority over the subject of re- | organization, but, by the Constitution he was Commnand- er-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States. Those Confederate States embraced a portion of the people of the Union who had been in a state of revolt, but had been reduced to obedience by force of arms. They were in an abnormal condition—without civil government, without commercial connections, without uational orin- ternational relations—and subject ouly to martial law. By withdrawing their representatives in Congress, by renoune. ing the privilege of representation, by organizing a sep- arute government—and by levying war against the United States, they destroyed their State Constitutions in respect to the vital principle which connected the respective States with the Union, and secured their foderal relations; and pothing of those constitutious was left of which the United States were bound to take notice. For four years they bad a de facto government, but it was usurped and ille gal. They chose the tribunal of arms whercin to decide whether or not it should be legalized, and they were de- feated. At the close of the Rebellion, therefore, the peo- ple of the rebellious States were formed, as the President expresses it, “ deprived of all civil government.” Under this state of affairs it was plainly the duty of the President to enforce existing national laws, and to estab- lish, as far as he could, such a system of government as might be provided for by existing national statutes. As commander-in-chief of a victorious army, it was his duty, under the law of nations and the army regulations, to re- store order, to preserve propriety, and to protect the people against violence from any quarter, until provision should be made by law for their government. He might, as President, assemble Congress and submit the whole matter to the law-making power, or he might continue military supervision and control until Cougress should assemble on its regular appointed day. Selecting the lat- ter alternative, he proceeded, by virtue of his power as commander-in-chief, to appoint Provisional Governors in the revolted States. These were regularly commissioned, and their compensation was paid, as the Secretary of War stated, *from the appropriation for army contingencies, because the duties performed by the parties were regarded of a temporary character, auziliary to the withdrawal of the military force, the disbandment of armies, and the reduction of military expenditure by provisional organiza- tions for the protection of civil rights, the preservation of peace, and to take the place of armed force iu the respective States.” It canmot, we think, be con: tended that these Governors possessed, or would exercise, any but military suthority. They had no power known to organize civil governments nor to exercise any authority, except that which inhered in their own persons under their commissions. Neither had the President or Commander-in-Chief any other than military authority. 1t was for him to decide how far Le would exercise it, when, how far he wonld relax it, when and on what terms he would withdraw it. He might properly permit the people to sssemble and to initiate local governments, aud to execute such laws as they might choose to frame, not inconsistent with mor in oppo- sition to the laws of the United States. And, if satistied that they might safely be left to themselves, he might withdraw the military forces altogether, and leave the people of any or all of those States to govern themselves without his interference. In the language of the Secretary of State in his telegram to the Provi Georgia, dated October 28, 1865, he might *recoguizo the people of any Stme as bhaving resumed the re- lations of loyalty to the Union” aud sct, in his military capacity, on this bypothesis. All this was within his own discretion as military commander. But it was not for him to decide upon the nature or effect of auy system of government which the people of those States might see fit to adopt, This power is lodged by the Constitution in the Congress of the United States, that branch of the Government in which is vested the authority to tix the political relations of the States to the Uniou and to protect each and all of them against foreign or domestic | violence, and against each other. We cannot, therefore, regard the various acts of the President in relation to the Jrjustion of Jocal goveruiments iu the iusyrrectjonary | judgment, who could state facts from their nal Governor of It was an equally maportast inquiry whether their pestorn only be granted upon certain ¢ itions and guarantees which would effectually secure the nation againet » recur- rence of evils so disastrous as those from which it bad es- ed at 80 enormous A sacrifice. ‘0 obtain the necessary information recourse eould only be Lad to the examination of wituesses whose position had given them the best means of forming an securate tion, and whose character and standivg afforded the best evidence of their truthfulness and impartiality. A work like this, covering 80 large an extent of territory, and em- bracing such ruml;hcuh aud extensive iquirics, necessa- rily required much time and labor. To shorten the tume a8 much as possible the work was divided aud placed in the hands of four sub-committces, who have been dili- wently cmployed in its accomplishinest. The results of their labors hieve been heretofore submitted, and the coun- try will judge Low far they sustain the President’s views asd how far they justify the conclusions to which your Committee have ially arrived. THE QUESTION OF READMISSION. A claim for the immediate admission of Senators and Represcutatives the so-called Confederate States bas been urged, i seems to your Committee not to be founded either in reason or in law, and which cannot be passed without comment. Btated in a few words it amounts 10 this: that, inasmuch as the lately insurgent States had no legal right to separate themselves from the Union, they still retain their position as States, and, consequently, the {eupll' thereof have a right to immediate representation in “ongress, without the imposition of any conditions what- ever; and, farther, that, uutil such admission, Congress hap no right to tax them for the support of the Govern- ment. It has even been contended that, until such ad- mission, all legislation J«:uur their interesta is, if not unconstitutional, st least unjustifiable and oppressive. It is believed by your Comumittee that all these tions ere not only wholly untenable, but if would tend to the destruction of the Govervment. It must not be forgotten that the people of theso States, without Justification or excuse, rose in insurrection against the United States. They deliberately abolished their State Governments, #o far as the same connected them political- Iy with the Union, as members thereof under the Constitu- tion. They deliberately renounced their allegiance to the Federal Government, and procecded to establish an inde- pendent government for themselves. Inthe prosecation of his enterprise they seized the National forts, arsevals, dockyards, and other public property within their borders, drove out from among them those who remained true to the Union, and heaped every imaginable insult and iujury upon the United States aid its citizens, Finally, they ?wnml Lostilitics and levied war against the Government. ey contined this war for four years with the most de- teruined and malignant spirit, Killing in battle, aud other- wise, large numbers of loyal ple,de-lll:{lng the propert of loyal citizens on sea and on the m’, and entailing on the Government an enormous debt, incurrcd to sustain its rightful nuthority, Whether legally and coustitutionally or not, they did in fuct withdraw from the Union and made themsclves sub- jects of another Government of their own creation, they only‘gichled when, after a long aud bloody and wast- ing war, they w neon:gellud by utter exbaustion to lay down their arms; and this they did, not willingly, but de- claring that they yielded because they could no longer re- sist, affording 1o evidence whatever of repentance for their crime aud expressing no regret except that they had 10 longer the power to continue the desperate struggle. It cannot, we think, be denied by any one having a toler- able acquaintance with public laws, that the war thus waged was a civil war of the test magnitude. The plo waging it were necessarily subject to all the rules which, by the law of nations, control & contest of that character, and to all the legitimate consequences following it. One of these consequences was that within the limits prescribed by humauity, the conquered Rebele were at the mercy of the conquerors. That a Govern- ment thus outraged had a most perfoct right to exact in- demuity for the injuries done and security against the re- cutrence of such aulrlgeo in the future, would seem too clear for_dispute. What proof should be required of a ro- turn to allegisuco, what time should clapse beforo a poo- le thus demoralized should Iw‘mlor?ul in full to the en- Joyment of political rights and privileges, aro questions for the u'-l:uling power Lo decide, m that decision involves grave cousiderations of the public safoty and the general welfare, 1t i8, morcover, contended, and with apparent gravity, that from the peculiar nature and char- acter of our Government, 1o such right on the part of the conqueror can exist; that from the moment when Re- bellion lays down its arms and actual hostilities ccase, all political rights of rebellious communitios are at once ro- stored; that because tue people of a State of tho Union were once an organized community within the Union they necessarily 50 remain, and their rights to be represented in Congress st any aud 'all times, aud to participate in the govegnment of the country under all circumstances, admit of neither question nor dispute. If this is indeed true,then is the Government of the United States powerless for its own protection, and flagrant Rebellion carried to the ex- treme of civil war i nruume which any State may play at, uot only certain thalit can lose nothing in any event, but may ever be the gainer by defeat, If it fails, the war has been parren of results and the battle may be still fought NfiPOIL witted out in the legislative halls of the country. Treason, de- fested in the field, has only to take possession of Congress and the Cabinet. Your Committes d not deem it r proper to discuss the question whether the late Confederate States are still States of this Uuion. of can ever be otherwise, (Granting this profitless abstrac- tion about which so many words have been wasted, it by no means follows that the people of these States may not place themselves in a condition to abrogate the powers and privileges incident to a state of the Union and doprive themselves of all pretense of right to_exercise those pow- ers and enjoy l):ou;nvllvlrl. A State within the Union has obligations to discharge a8 a member of the Unjon. 1t must submit to federal laws and uphold federal anthor- ity. Itmust have a government republican in form, un- der and by which it is connected with the General Gov- ermugot, 4pd throueh which it cag dpghageo ity oblige- either neces | Constitutional amend t. Hiom 16 thets foriner retations with the United States should | sesaiation bad bocome, In wn observa- | just and proper in itself, submitted to Congress suthy confer They were act out of ite funds. ealli A lirgo proportio population had becotue, instead of mere chattels, free men and ctizens. Through all the struggle those bad remained true and loyal, and had in large numbers fought on the side of Union. It was impossible to abandon them, without securing them their nghts as men and eitizens. The whole civilized world would bave cried out against such base ingratitude, and the bae idea is offensive to all hinking myelti, Heuce it became important to inquire what could be done to securo their nghts, civil and political. It was evident o that adequate security could ouly be found tu appropriate provisions of the Constitution. ‘Rep- rosentation 18 based on the whole number of free persons 1 each Btate and three-fifths of all other persons. As s cousequence the eflect of the Rebellion would bh to increase the political power of the insurrectionary States whenever they should be allowed to resume their rufll"lu an States of the Union. As represent ) is )y the Constitation b nwit d upon ]mplll.ll.nll.(-fllrl‘ able to recommend a change of of representation nccmar_n}(v Te- y was conside tions arising tee did not think it de that basis. The incr sulting from the abolition of Sla the most important element in the out of the uecessity for some fundamental action. It eppears to your Committee that the nght of these representations had been thus increased, and should be rocognized by the Ge | Government, while slaves, were not considered as having any rights, civil or political. Tt did not seem just or proper that all the political advan- tages derived from their becoming free should be confined to their former masters, who had fought against the Union, sud withheld from themselves, who lad always been loyal. Slas by building up & ruling and dominant class, rod pirit o!tfxnn:hy adverse to Repub- lican institutions, which ftinally insugurated civil war. The tendency of continuiog the domi ation of such a clase by leaving it in the exclusive possession of political power would be to mmungfl the same spirit aud lead 1o o similar result—doubt whether Congress power, even under the amended Constitution, to scribe the qualitications of voters in a State, or could act directly on the subject. It was doubtful, in fhe opinion of your Comuittee, whether the States would consent to surrender & power they had slways exercised, and to which they were attached. As the best, if not the only, method of surmounting the difficulty, and mm-nl{y your Committee came to the couclusion that political power should be possessed in all the States exactly in proportion as the n,hl of suffrage should be granted, without distinction of calor or race. This, it was thought, would lea whole anmmn with the people o;’ m :t;t:‘.':'nil-: n‘n t::l to all the advantage of increased ducement to allow all to participate in its exercise. Such & provision would be in its nature gentle and-persuasive, nd would lead, it was hoped, at no ant day, to an equal participation of all, without distinction, in"all the rights and privileges of citizenship; thus affording a full and adequate protection to all clusses of citizens, since all 'ufl have through the ballot-box the power of self- protestion. Holding these views, your Committes pre- rnd 80 amondment to the Constitution to earry out t‘hu dea, and submitted the same to Congross; unfortunatoly, as we think, it did not receive the nece constitu- tioual ty inthe Senate, and therefore could not bo proposed for adoption by the States. The principle iu- volved 10 that amendment is known and believed to be sound, and your Comumittee have again Kmpflod it in another fori, hoping that it may receive the approbation of 3 Your Committee have been unable to tind in the evidence by the President, under date of March 6, 1866, in compliatice with the resolutions of Janu- ary & and February 27, 1866, auy satisfactory proof that either of the insurrectionary States except, perbaps, the State of Tennessce, has placed itself in s wummn 1o re- sume ita political relations to the Union: the tirst step toward that end would necessarily be the establishment of » republican form of governmeut by the people. It hus been before remarked that the Provisional Governors ap- pointed by the President in the exercise of his military , could do nothing by virtue of the power thus toward the establishment of a State government., uuder the War Department, and paid ey wore simply hridgmg over the chasm betwsen rebellion and restoration, aud yet we find them conveutions and convening legislatures. Not only this, but we tind the conventions and logislatures thus con- vened sting under excentivedirections as tothe provisions required to be sdopted in theirconstitutions and ordi- nances, as couditions precedent to their recognition by the Prestdant. The inducements held out by the President for compliance with the conditions imposed were directed in one instance—and presumably, therefore, in others—to the immediate admission of Seuators and Representatives ‘ongress, I'he character of the conventions and legis- latures thus assembled was not such as to inspire confi- dence in the good faith of their members. Gov. Perry of South Carolina dissolved the convention assembled in that State before the suggestion had reached Columbia from Washigton that the Rebel war debt should be repudiated, and gave as his reason that it was a ‘* revolutionary body.” Thers is no evidence of the loyalty or disloyalty of the members of those convention: :{ logislatures except the fact of ns being asked for on their account. Some of thoese States now claiming representation refused to ulolin the conditions imposed. No trustworthy information is found fa these papors as to the constitutional provisions of sovaral of these States, while in not oneof them is there the slightest evidence to show that thoso ** smended con- stitutions,”" uthni are called, have ever been submitted to \hn;mpla for their adoption, In North Carolina alone an o ce was passed to that effect, but it does not ap- Ktll' to bave been aoted on. Not one of them, therefore, as been avtificd. Whether, with President Johnson, we adopt the theory that the old constitutions were abro- gated and destroyed. and the people '* deprived of civil government,” or whether we adopt ihe alternative doc- trino that they were only suspended, and were revived by the # ion of the Rebellion, the new provisions must be ¢o! a8 oqually destitute of validity before .d«;‘p; the conventious were called tion by the people. 1f tb?&md putting the State Goyergimeuty inte red | 1sions which the Presi- rst instance will be perma- ¢ of the States seeking resto- o full participation of the Goy- adiated when that object shall ordinances and eonstituti dent deewed essential in th | nently adhered to by the pe | ration, after being adm’ ‘ ernment, and will not hav accompli rests upon the late it | to the rights and riy doned, and not Lp. 1 tae Liave never nndertaken, themn torcof. Mook , who are seeking restoration s which they willingly aban- ly or indirec r aflirmatively that they are propared and in good faith to accept the results of the war, to abandon their hostility | to the Government, and to live in peace and unity with the peopla of the loyal States, extending to all classos equal rights and privileges and conforming to the republican idew of liberty and equality. They should exhibit in their | acts something more than an unwilling submission—a eling, if not cheerful, certainly nof sive and detiant; | and they should evines an utter repudiation of ll hostility ! to the Goneral Government by au acceptance of such just | and reasonable conditions as that government should think the public safety demands. Has this been done ! Let us look at the facts shown by the evidence taken by the Com- mittee. Hardly bas the war closed before the pongle of theso insurrectionary States come forward and haughtily claim, s a right, the privilege of participating at onee in that Government which they had for four years boen fighting to destroy. Allowed and encouraged ‘by the Executive to organize State governments, nmr at once place in power | leading Rebelsjunrepentant and unpardoned, excluding | with contempt those who Lad manifested an sttachment to the Union, and preferring, in manv_instances, those who had rendered themselves most obmoxious. In the face of the law requiring an oath of office which would nocessarily exclude all such from Federal offices, they elect, with very few exceptions, as Senators and Repre- soutatives to Congress, men who had actively participated in the Rebellion, insultingly denouncing tho laws us un- constitutional. It is only necessary to iustance the elec- tion to the Senate of the late Vice-President of the Co: foderacy, s man who leut his own declared great ability and his influenee as a most ;n-minnl public man to the cause of the Rebellion, acd who, unpardoned Rebel that ho is, with toat oath stariug him in the face, had the assurance to lay his eredentials on the table of the Senate. Other Rebels, of scarcely less note or notoriety, were selected from other quarters—professing no repentance, y in the crime they had committe avowing as the uncontradicted “testimony of Mr. Stephens and others prove, an adherence to the pernicious doctrine of Secession, and declaring that they only yielded to necessity. They insist, with uranimous voice, upon their rights as Stafes, and proclaim that they will submit tono conditions whatever as preliminary to their resuwp- tion of power under that Comstitution” which they still claim lg: right to repudiate. Examining the evidence taken by your Committee, still furtherin connection with fucts too notorious to bedisputed, it lpgeun that the Southern press, with few oxoekuom, and those mainly of newspapers ncenfl({ ostablished by Northern men, abounds with weekly and daily abuse of the institutions of the people of the’ loyai States, defonds the men who led and the principles which incited the re- ollion, denounces aud reviles Southern men who adhered to the Union, and strives, constantly and unserupulously, by any means in its power, 1o keep alive the fire of hate and discord betwoen the two sections; calling upon the President to violate his oath of oftice aud overturn the Government by force of arms, and drive the Representa- tives of the people from their scats in Congress. The na- tional banner is openly insulted, not only by an ignorant but at public mestings, and once, among other inces, at o dinner given in honor of & notorious Rebel who had violated his oath and abandoned his place. The same individual is elected to an important office in the leading city of his State, although an unpardoned Rebel, and so offeusive that the Pross silently allows him to enter upon his official duties. In another State the leading Gen- eral of the Rebel armies is openly nominated for Governor by the Speakor of the House of Delegates, and the nomi- nation is hailed by the people with ghouts of satisfaction, and openly indorsed by the press. Looking still furtber at the evidence taken by your Committee, it is found to be clearly shown by witnesses of the hiphul character and having the best means of information, that the Freedmen’s Bureau instituted for the relief and protection of the freedmen and refu; almost universally opposed by the mass of the populati and in an efficient condition only under military protec- tion, while the Union men of the South are earnest in its defeuse, declaring in one voice that without its protection the colored le would be unable to obtain labor at fair rices, and could bardly live in safoty. They also testify Lat without the protection of the {'ni'«l tes troo| Union men, whether of Northern or Southern birth, would be obliged to abandon their homes, The feeling in maoy portions of the country toward emancipated slaves, es- pecially lm:':f the uneducated and fgnorant, one of vindiotive malicious hatred, This deep-seated pfe{!h inst color is assiduously cultivated by the public J s, aud leads to acts of cruelty, oppression and mur- der, which the local authorities are at no to prevent or punish. There is no disposition to place the colored men, constituting at least four-fifths of the popula- tion, npon torms of even civil equality, while many instances may be found where large plauters and men of the better class sccept the situation and honorably strive to bring about & better order of things 2{ emglpyinx the freedmen at fair wages, and treating them kindly. The general foeling and disposition, among all classes, aro ot totally averse to the toleration of any class of gao 1o iendly to the Union, be they white or black, and this aversion is not unfrequently ‘manifested in an insulting and offensive manner. The witnesses examined as to the willingness of the people of the South to contribute to render existing laws, to the rymem of the National debt, prove that the taxes levied by the United States will h&})lld only on compul- sion with great reluctance, while there prevails to a considerable extent, the idea ::‘u compensation -m‘.t: wpdy for ¢ here the burden of proof e of the U'nited States, who to deprive tions of public trust of at least a portion of those whose criwes bave proved them euemies of the Union and uge worthy of public confidence. Your Committee will, perbaps, bardly be deemed exe cusable for extending this report furtber, but inasmuch as immediate aud unconditionsl representation of the States lately in Rebellion is demanded as & matter of right, and deluy and even hesitation is denounced us grossly oppres- sive and unjust, as well as unwise aud impolitic, it may 1o be amiss again to call attention to a few undisputed and notorious facts, and the principles of public law ap- plicable thereto, in order that the propriety of that claim way be fully considered and well undcrstood. The State of Tennessce occupies a position distinet from all the other insurrectionary States, and bas beeu the sub- ject of & separate report, which your committee have not thought it expedient to disturb. Whether Congress shall see fit to make that State the subject of separate action, or to inelude it in the same category with ull others so far as concerns the imposition of preliminary conditions, it isnot. within the province of this committeeé cither to deterimine or advise. To ascertain whether all the so-called Confederate Stites “are entitled to be represented in either House of wiaves euigucipeted aud property destroyed dur- 5 Congress,” the essential inquiry is whether there is in any one of them a constituency qualified to be represented in Congress. The question fiow far persons claiming scats i either House possess the credentials necessary to enable them to represcnt a dnl{thnalifled constituency, is ove for the consideration of each House separately, after the pre- liminary question shall have been fionlly determined. ‘We now propose to restate as briefly as possible the general facts and principles applicable to the States re- tly in rebellion. First: The scats of the Senators and Representatives from the so-called Confederate States became vacant in the year 1861, during the second session of the XXX Vith Congress, by the voluntary withdrawal of their incumbents with the sanction and by the direction of the legislatures or coventions of their respective States. This was dove a8 a hostile act ugainst the Constitution and Government of the Uuited States, with a declared iutent to overthrow the same by forming a Southern Confederation. This st of declared hostility was ?oodfly followed by an organiz “land 8- tion of the same States i confederacy which lived and wi war by sea and inst the United States. This war continued more than within which time the Rebel armies besieged the National Capital, in- vaded the loyal States, burned their towns and ci robbed their citizens, Jeltmyed more than 250,000 loy; soldiers, and imposed un increased natioual burden of not not less than $3,500,000,000, of which seven nre%hmd- red millions have already been met and paid. m tho time that these Confederate States thus withdrew their representation in Congress aud levied war on the United States, the great mass of their le became and were in- surgents, rebels, traitors; of them occupied the litical, legal, and practical relation of enemies of the Tnited States. This mli“ is established by acts of Couy aud judicial sions, and is recognized repeat- al:lv y th;‘:.’nlident in public proclamatious, documents, aud s s«’:.'f. The States thus confederated prosecuted their war against the United States to final arbitrament, and did not cease until all their armies were captured, theix military power destroyed, their civil officers, state and confeder taken ners or put to flight, every vestigo of State and Confedorate Government ob:[unul, their territory overrun and occupied by the Federal Armies, aud their people reduced to the condition of enemies con- quered in war, entitled only, by public law, to such rights, privileges, and conditions a3 might be vouchsafed “II the conqueror. This position is also established by judicial decisions, and is recognized as sound by the President in public proclamations, documents, and speeci Third: Having voluntarily deprived themselves of re- presentation in (:onfinu, for the eriminal pu; of de- stroying the Federal Union, and having reduced thomselves by the act of levying war to the condition of public ene- mies they have no right to complain of temporary exclu- sion from Congress; but, ou the eont:{(, baving volunta- 0 rily renounced the right to representation, and disquali- ficd themselves by crime from p-rfld&cling in the Gov- ernment, the jen now rests upon them, before claim- ing to be reinstated in their former condition, to show that they are qualified to resume Federal relations. Tn order to do this, they must prove that they have estah- lished, with the cousent of the republican forms with the Constitution and f vmut:ll fnn':.'(he nited States, that all bostile purposes bave ceased, and should give adequate guaranties nst fa- ture treason and rebellion; guaranties which ve satis to the Government against which they re- belled, and by whose arms they were subdued. Fourth : Ha by this treasonable withdraws! from Congress, and by flagrant robellion and crime forfeited all civil and politieal #m.m rivileges under the Federal Coustitution, they can only be restored thereto by the permission aud anthority of that constitutioual jower mu which they rebelled, aud by which they were sub- u Fifth A 1?::7- ','."’:“8“’“‘ armics were eonqr:flodh by :‘hh e of 1l il Lates, act w the cotr- Sf" te branchee of the (lom'nm:n‘l, and not by the Execu- tive Department alone. The powers of C&r:lwm are not 80 vested in the President that he can tix snd regulate tho terms of settlement and confer C Tepresenta- tion upon conquered Rebels and traitors, nor can hie in any way qualify enemies of the (Government to exercise its law-making powsr. The authority to restore Rebels to r litical power in the Federal Government can be ! only with the concurrence of all the Departments in which Pl ket & tious of the i & e States cannot be cons dom,udulo-lvk'* f‘“”d as provisional permissions n‘m C 3 [ ‘ommander Wief of the army to do certain acts, the effect and validity -nemn; w“be iatecn! u.l;d by the f-w:-:'ufl Govern- ment, aud not solely by the Executive power. Sirth: The quoul’mg Congress is then, Whetber conquered eneuiies haye the right, and shall bo permitted ag their own pleasure and own terms, to patein making