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have a proper comprehension of the suh

jeet that is the whole of it.

Mr. Sumner. If Ido uot interrupt the

Senator

Mr. Harlan. It is no interruption.

Sir. Sumner. I should like that wo

should understand each other as the Sena

tor proceeds. If I have read the Constitu

i tion aright it gives to Congress the power

r to declare war, and not to the President.—

Now, the point here is that the President

has declared war, and in pursuance of his

f declaration of war, through the orders of

s tiie Secretary of the Navy, great ships,

t with great guns, have gone into the harbor

of a friendly Power and there menaced it.

That blood did not follow, that no Haytian

s or no American fell in conflict, does not

s at all mitigate the great offense of seizing

the power to declare war, which tho ovi

f donee shows that the President did that

r is, unless the Senator is able to blot out of

the record tho orders from the Navy

a Department.

i Mr. Harlan. lam very much obliged

o to the honorable Senator. That brings me

e to the very point 1 intended to touch next,

a So our minds arc flowing in the same chan

nel, and I trust we shall arrive ultimately

I, at the same conclusion,

r If 1 understand tho logic of the honor

y able Senator it is this that the President

o cannot, without au infraction of the Con

li stitution, put, forth an act of war until a

declaration of war shall have been made

d by the Congress of tho United States for,

e if he yields that point, then the whole case

i- is gone, if I can comprehend it. The Con

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The weekly Oskaloosa herald · Oskaloosa, Iowa · April 27, 187127 de abril de 1871 · See the original pageVer la página original

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The Cecil Whig. (1871). Elkton, Md., 1871-04-29. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83016348/1871-04-29/ed-1/?sp=1

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The Cecil Whig, 1871-04-29.