Lane, of Ind., Lane, of Kansas, Morrill, Pomeroy, Sherman.
Sumner, Ten Eyck, Trumbull, Wade, Wilkinson, Wilmot, and Wilson, of Mass.--29.
Nays--Messrs. Bayard, Carlile, Davis, Henderson. Kennedy, Latham, McDougall, Nesmith, Powell, Saulsbury, Stark, Willey, Wilson, of Mo., and Wright--14.
This bill having reached the House, Mr. Stevens, of Pa., in Committee of the Whole, moved
April 10. the laying aside successively of each bill preceding it on the calendar, and thus reached this onecluding Davis, of Ky., Henderson, of Mo., Thomson [Dem.], of N. J., and Willey, of Pa.); Nays--Messrs. Bayard and Saulsbury, of Del., Kennedy, of Md., Carlile, of Va., Powell, of Ky., Wilson, of Mo., Wright, of N. J., Latham, of Cal., Nesmith and Stark, of Oregon.
It is noteworthy that a majority of these Nays were the votes of Senator from Border States, to which it proffered compensation for their slaves, all whom have since been freed without compensation.
The President of course approved
ster, red with the best and bravest blood of the country, North and South--red with the blood of those in both sections of the Union whose fathers fought the common battle of Independence.
Nor have these sorrows brought with them any compensation, whether of national ride or of victorious arms.
For is it not vain to appeal to you to raise a shout of joy because the men from the land of Washington, Marion, and Sumter, are baring their breasts to the steel of the men from the land of Warren, Stark, and Stockton ; or because, if this war is to continue to be waged, one or the other must go to the wall — must be consigned to humiliating subjugation?
This fearful, fruitless, fatal civil war has exhibited our amazing resources and vast military power.
It has shown that, united, even in carrying out, in its widest interpretation, the Monroe doctrine, on this continent, we could, with such protection as the broad ocean which flows between ourselves and European powers affords, have stood
attacked by Marmaduke, 446.
Stafford, Brig.-Gen., killed at the Wilderness, 568.
Stahl, Gen. Julius, in fight at Cross-Keys, 138.
Stanley, Maj.-Gen. D. A., at Iuka, 223-4; attacks Morgan, 271; charges into Franklin, 272; wounded at Franklin, Tenn., 683.
Stannard, Brig.-Gen., of Vermont, wounded at Gettysburg, 388.
Stanton, Edwin M., appointed Secretary of War, 81; 82; 108; 186; to McClellan, after battle of Fair Oaks, 149-150; to McClellan, about Jackson's movements, 151-2.
Stark, Gen., killed at Antietam, 206.
Starkweather, Gen., at Perryville, 219.
State authority over militia, 488.
State Elections, 486; account of, 508-10; the October, of 1864, 671-3.
St. Charles, Ark., Carr fights Shelby at, 554.
Steedman, Capt., naval expedition, 459.
Steedman, Gen. J. B., at Chickamauga, 422; at Nashville, 686.
Steele, Gen. F., at Yazoo Bluffs, 289; at Fort Hindman, 293; at Vicksburg, 311; captures Little Rock, 451-2; in Arkansas in 1864, 536; advances to C
all his father had taken an active part.
The colonies had, in 1758, the French and Indian War, the result of which was the taking of Quebec by Wolfe, and the destruction of the power of France on this continent.
Zephaniah, my grandfather, was a soldier under Wolfe's command.
There hangs before me, in my library, a powder-horn, such as was worn by every soldier of that day. On it is engraved with his own knife, Zephaniah Butler his horn April ye 22, 1758.
And Captain Zephaniah fought with Stark at Bennington.
Then followed the Revolution, from 1775 to 1783, and one of my uncles was at Bunker Hill.
The next generation saw the war of 1812 with Great Britain.
In this war, my father, John Butler, commanded a company of light dragoons in the regular army.
Next, in 1830, were the Spanish wars in Florida and the Gulf States, wherein General Taylor and General Jackson--then captains — so distinguished themselves.
Next came the unpleasantness of 1861 to 1865, which, I think, in spite
