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fect that the army will not only abstain from all interference with slavery, but with a strong hand crush out any attempts at insurrection. This was looked on as a pledge auctioned by the Executive that the army would not trample on State laws and States, but plate them from those who would overthrow them. There was at that time no protest from Puritan lips. In support of his argument, Mr. Voorhees referred, among other hints to General Butler's conduct and to the official dispatches of Mr. Seward, in which the letter declared that whatever may become of the rebellion, it is not the purpose of the Government to interfere with the status of a single human being in the States or Territories. Infamy, he (Voorhees) said, would rest on the men who rejected peace when' they could have obtained it on terms of honor. Now let the armies advance and bring this terrible struggle to a speedy termination. Let the war be waxed in the name of the Constitution, the laws, and the Union of equal a