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resident had given a verbal or written acceptance to the offer of the Western Governors. Mr Wilson understood it to have been an official acceptance by the President, advised and approved by Gen Grant; and the draft of the bill before us was inclosed in a letter to the Chairmen of the Military Committee of both Houses. The mode of the call was proper enough though many doubted its wisdom. He voted for the measure, and put the responsibility where it belonged — on the President. Mr Clarke, of New Hampshire, (Union,) said the great point was, whether this call, having met the approval of the Executive, after consultation with the Commander of the Army. should not now be sanctioned by the Senate. For one, he was not willing to say so. When this great campaign was about to commence, and when we needed men, and the Governors of States offered them, he wanted to know why the Senate would refuse them, or prevent them from rallying to our standard. He, for one, would not be wil