Named Entity Results, E. D. Baker

Doc. 50.2.-the California regiment. The following is a list of the officers: Field-Officers.--Colonel, E. D. Baker; Lieutenant-Colonel, Isaac J. Wister; Major, Robert A. Parrish, Jr.; Adjutant, E. D. Baker, Jr.; Quartermaster, Francis G. Young; Surgeon, Alfred C. Baker; Assistant-Surgeon, Justin Dwinell. Non-Commissioned Staff.--Sergeant-Major, John C. Smith; Quartermaster-Sergeant, Geo. W. Wheeler; Commissary-Sergeant, James W. Becker; Right General Guide, John W. Flecker; Left GeneE. D. Baker, Jr.; Quartermaster, Francis G. Young; Surgeon, Alfred C. Baker; Assistant-Surgeon, Justin Dwinell. Non-Commissioned Staff.--Sergeant-Major, John C. Smith; Quartermaster-Sergeant, Geo. W. Wheeler; Commissary-Sergeant, James W. Becker; Right General Guide, John W. Flecker; Left General Guide, William H. Fry; Hospital Nurse, Wm. H. Plumly. Line Officers.--Co. A--First Lieutenant, John Markoe, commanding; Second Lieutenant, vacant; Co. B--Captain, James W. Lurgenfelter; First Lieutenant, John Benker, Jr.; Second Lieutenant, Henry W. Salkela; Co. C--Captain, Charles W. Smith; First Lieutenant, W. A. Todd; Second Lieutenant, W. H. Lewis; Co. D--Captain, George L. Rettmar; First Lieutenant, Sylvester E. Greth; Second Lieutenant, Joseph S. Williams; Co. E--Captain, Charles E.

would be the overthrow of the Constitution. There is no warrant in the Constitution to conduct the contest in that form. In further proof of how they intend to conduct this contest, I refer to the speech of the eloquent Senator from Oregon, (Mr. Baker,) when he declared he was for direct war, and said that for that purpose nobody was so good as a dictator. Is any thing more necessary to show that, so far as that Senator is concerned, he proposed to conduct the contest without regard to the se States were willing to obey the Federal Government, they must be reduced to the condition of territories, and, he added, he would govern them by governors from Massachusetts and Illinois. This was said seriously, and afterwards repeated. Mr. Baker (Or.) explained. He said he was delivering a speech against giving too much power to the President, and was keeping his usual constitutional, guarded position against an increase of the standing army, and gave, as an excuse for voting for the

ilitary power; to imprison citizens without warrant of law; to suspend the writ of habeas corpus; to establish martial law; to make seizures and searches without warrant; to suppress the press; to do all those acts which rest in the will, and in the authority of a military commander. In my judgment, sir, if we pass it, we are upon the eve of putting, so far as we can, in the hands of the President of the United States the power of a dictator. Then, in reply to the Senator from Oregon, (Mr. Baker,) he seems to have great apprehension of a radical change in our form of government. The Senator goes on to say: The pregnant question, Mr. President, for us to decide is, whether the Constitution is to be respected in this struggle; whether we are to be called upon to follow the flag over the ruins of the Constitution? Without questioning the motives of any, I believe that the whole tendency of the present proceedings is to establish a government without limitation of powers, and

Doc. 132.-Gen. Butler on the contraband. Headquarters Department of Virginia, Fortress Monroe, July 30, 1861. Hon. Simon Cameron, Secretary of War:-- Sir: By an order received on the morning of the 26th July from Major-General Dix, by a telegraphic order from Lieut.-General Scott, I was commanded to forward, of the troops of this department, four regiments and a half, including Col. Baker's California regiment, to Washington, via Baltimore. This order reached me at 2 o'clock A. M., by special boat from Baltimore. Believing that it emanated because of some pressing exigency for the defence of Washington, I issued my orders before day-break for the embarkation of the troops, sending those who were among the very best regiments I had. In the course of the following day they were all embarked for Baltimore, with the exception of some 400, for whom I had not transportation, although I had all the transport force in the hands of the quartermaster here, to aid the Bay line of ste

perfectly willing to abide her final judgment. Mr. Baker--Mr. President, it has not been my fortune to partr the bill, and he may comment on the sections. Mr. Baker--Pick out that one which is in your judgment most and of that last section I express no opinion. Mr. Baker--I had hoped that that respectful suggestion to ththem. The Senator can select which he pleases. Mr. Baker--Let me try then, if I must generalize as the Senate in a condition of insurrection or rebellion. Mr. Baker--In the first place, the bill does not say a word ave said States as to describe what is a State. Mr. Baker--I do; and that is the reason why I suggest to theding Officer (Mr. Anthony in the chair)--Order! Mr. Baker--What would have been thought if, in another Capithat fell from the Senator from California------ Mr. Baker--Oregon. Mr. Breckinridge--The Senator seems to h by some other man on the floor of this Senate. Mr. Baker--Mr. President, I rose a few minutes ago to endeav

Let there be no compromise, till the last traitor shall lay down his arms and sue for peace. Illinoians! we are soon to make a record for our State. Each State will be justly emulous to inscribe her name highest on the scroll of fame, which the historian of this war has already commenced to write. Shall not the star which answers to Illinois be brightest in the galaxy of the thirty-four? On many a field of glory she has written an imperishable record of her prowess, and while the names of her Hardin, her Bissell, her Shields, and her Baker, and the gallant men around them, remain, her fame is secure. Let us now send her proudest chivalry into the field, and do nothing to mar the glories already achieved. Let us raise an army, which, in numbers, discipline, and prowess, shall of itself be sufficient to sweep the last vestige of treason from the Mississippi Valley, and to bear our flag in triumph to the ends of the republic. Richard Yates, Governor and Commander-in-Chief.