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a servile war, and therefore should be held up to the execration of mankind and counteracted by such severe retaliatory measures as, in the judgment of the President, may be best calculated to secure its withdrawal or arrest its execution. Mr. Clark, of Mo., said the resolution did not go far enough. He thought the President should be authorized immediately to proclaim that every person found in arms against the Confederate Government and its institutions, on our soil, should be put to dees of 18 and 35 years, provided that this authority shall not extend to military organizations raised after this time, except in those States and localities where the Conscript law may be suspended. The bill was discussed by Messrs. Sparrow, Clark, Haynes, Semmes, and Henry, in its favor and Messrs. Preston and Wigfall against it. The question on the substitute was ordered, and the vote resulting, ayes 16, noes 3, the substitute was adopted, and the bill as amended passed. A House bil