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without the authority of Congress If I

have a proper comprehension of the sub

ject, that is the whole of it.

Mr, Sumner. If Ido not interrupt the

Senator—

Mr. Harlan. It is no interruption.

Mr. Sumner. I should like that we

should understand each other as the Sena

tor proceeds. If I have read the Constitu

tion aright, it gives to Congress the power

to declare war, and not to the President.

Now, the point here is that the President

has declared war, ami in pursuance of his

declaration of war, through the orders ot

the Secretary of the Navy, great ships,

with great guns, have gone into the harbor

of a friendly Power, and there menaced it.

That blood did not follow, that no Haytian

or no American fell in conflict, does not at

all mitigate the great offense of seizing the

power to declare war, which the evidence

shows that the President did that is, un

less the Senator is able to blot out of the

record the orders from the Navy Depart

□tent.

Air. Harlan. lam very much obliged

to the honorable Senator. That brings me

to the very point I intended to touch next.

So our minds are flowing in the same

channel, ami I trust we shall urrive ulti

mately at the same conclusion.

Il l understand the logic of the honora

ble Senator it is this: that the President

cannot, without an infraction of the Con

stitution, put forth an uet of war until a

declaration of war shall have been made

by the Congress of the United States for,

if he yields that point, then the whole case

is gone, if I can comprehend it. The Con

stitution clothes Congress with the power

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The weekly Oskaloosa herald, 1871-04-27.