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F M Baldwin, 52d N C; John Bowers, 42 Ga; B Chisley, 52d N C; B M Clarke, 29th Ga; A C Digh, 55th N C; A P Dunham, 51stm Ga; John Dunbar, 9th Ark; W H Dunham, 51st, Ga; C Delafield, 12th Ark; W P Emhart, 14th N C; J C Maton, 5th N C; L Eilison, 6th N C; C F Floyd, 12th N C; J C Fields, 26th N C ; J e Green, 9th Ga; G Goodson, 32d N C; C P Griffin, 43d N C; E Harwell, 50th Ga; George F Hodge, 55th Va; J M Hoiting, 26th N C; Wm Hipps, 61st Ga; L C Hendricks, 55th N C; John M House, 27th Va; James King, 2d N C; L Luckery, 12th G; F J susbin, 4th Ala; J H Mursell, 15th Va; L Morris, 4th N C; J D Nance, 5th N C; John Faul, 32d Ag; A B Hogers, 30th Tenn; W J Roland, 48th G; H R Reeves, 4th N C; D R'ggs, 18th do; C S Shephard, Ga; Los Smith, 58th N C; T Stephens, 1st Mo cav; Peter Seaford, 5th N C; John Sullens, 1st Ala; R H Sterling, 11th Va; M D Thomer, 52d Va; J Talley, 10th Na; Charles Tate, 2d N C; O Thompson, 24th Ga; J N Veszey, 8th S C cav ; Ed. Wither, 45th N C; Bartlett Plerson, 20
the Constitution says that they may be removed at the pleasure of the President it leaves open no other means of removing them except that which itself prescribes. If any other mode be adopted — no matter what it may be — the officer is no longer removable at the pleasure of the President. Another mode may be adopted, but it must be by amending the Constitution. "Durants bene placito" --the original phraseology of which, "at pleasure," is the translation, implied the highest exercise of a King's prerogative. The officer who held by that tenure was always understood to be appointed for life, unless the King should think proper to change his intention. And so in this case the Constitution evidently meant to this tenure of office during the President's pleasure, co-existent with the President's official life. To alter the tenure is to do violence to the fundamental law. This bill, in a word, erects the Senate into an oligarchy, at the expense of the powers of the two co-ordina