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Parent Issue
Day
20
Month
December
Year
1861
Copyright
Public Domain
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If the following paragraph, extracted from the Congressional proceedmgs of tlic 1 1 tli itist., is a truiliful report, it is quite evident that the ultraists in Congress are aimiiig to indircetly - and not so indirectly, eithcr - depose the President, and place all the power, at least all the military power, now exercised under the congtitution and l;uvs by that officcr, in the hands of a Joint Committee of CongreBS. We quote : " Mr. Cl) and Ier oflercd a resolution instrueting the Military Cominittoe to inqmre into the expediency of appointing a Joint Cominittee of the two Houses of' Congress, who sliall have power to retire any impropcr office of the army or navy.'1 Agreed to. Let tho above conlemplated Joiut Cominittce be raised, and the President is no longer coinmander-in-chief. will no longer select the offieera of the army and navy, or if he selects them they will be coiapelled to obcy the buhrsts of " King Comniittee" or be " relired." Pi:iiae such a Committco, and oif go the heads of McClbllan, Hali-kck, Dix, Siieuman", aud of all othord whu refuse to convert the war into an abolition raid ; and tho President will be eompelled to 611 their places with officers in favor of nrm ing the negroes and turning them loose upon the people of the South, or loare them vacant. Tho " resolution of inquiry " means this if it means anytliing, and its adoption was a refleetion upan the President. It niatters not that the Constitutir.n gives the President tho power to appoint and remove oflieers, the Constitution stands iu tho way of fauatïcs aud must stand omu side. A more dangerous proposition has not been advaneed in ÜQngrMS or out, and it stands the people iu hand to look to it.

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Michigan Argus