without it can be honorable, solid and enduring. There is no probable compromise which can secure it. The rebels will submit to no compromise short of a dissolution of the Union, and the establishment of a Southern Confederacy. On the other hand, the people of the loyal States will submit to no adjustment short of the submission of the rebels to the rightful authority of the Government, and the unconditional union of the States. The rebels demand the right to go off with three-fourths of our broad territory; the people of the loyal States will never yield a single acre. To those who, in view of the calamities of the war, may suppose that any division of our territory can secure peace, let me put the interrogatories: Where would be the boundary line; and once established, what guarantee is there for a continuance of peace? A division of this country into several different nationalities means nothing more nor less than perpetual and destructive war; an unceasing conflict for supremacy; a never ending struggle for the empire of the continent, at a cost of millions of treasure; and oppressive taxes upon the people to keep up separate governments and maintain standing armies. Such is now the condition of the different nationalities of Europe, whose immense exactions have in the last twenty years driven millions of their poor to seek our shores as an a ylum. Instead of peace, it would be as if this nation were to make its last will and testament, and bequeath internecine and bloody war as a legacy an inheritance for the dwellers in the land for all time to come. War, then, might be expected to become the occupation of the people. The questions of the navigation of our rivers, of boundaries, tariffs, commercial regulations, escape and capture of slaves, pride and jealousies embittered by the remembrance of former feuds, and numerous other causes, would engender and keep up bloody and perpetual wars, until at last all that was worth living for-all that was lovely in the land, would be blotted out, and but few evidences left of the greatness and glory of a once happy and united people. I can think of no peace worth having, short of crushing out the rebellion and the complete restoration of the authority of the Government. The only way to honorable and permanent peace is through war-desolating, exterminating war. We must move on the enemy's works. We must move forward with tremendous energy, with accumulated thousands of men and the most terrible enginery of war. This will be the shortest road to peace and be accompanied be the least cost of life and treasure in the end. If our brave boys shall fall in the field, we must bury the dead, take care of and bring home the sick and wounded, and send fresh battalions to fill up the broken ranks and to deal out death, destruction and desolation to the rebels. We might talk of compromise, if it affected us alone, but it would affect our children and our children's children, in all the years of the future. The interests to be affected are far reaching and universal as humanity and lasting as the generations of mankind. I have never had my faith in the perpetual Union of these States to falter. I believe this infernal rebellion can be, ought to be, and will be, subdued. The land may be left a howling waste, desolated by the bloody footsteps of war, from Delaware Bay to the Gulf, but our terri tory shall remain unmutilated-the country shall be one, and it shall be free in all its broad boundaries, from Maine to the Gulf and from ocean to ocean. In any event, may we be able to act a worthy part in the trying scenes through which we are passing; and should the star of our destiny sink to rise no more, may we feel for ourselves and may history preserve our record clear before heaven and earth, and hand down the testimony to our children, that we have done all, periled and endured all, to perpetuate the priceless heritage of Liberty and Union, unimpaired to our posterity. January 5, 1863. RICHARD YATES. On motion of Mr. Keyes, The House, at five o'clock, adjourned until to-morrow morning at nine o'clock. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1863. House met, pursuant to adjournment, at nine o'clock A. M. Prayer by Rev. Mr. Burchard. Journal read and approved. Mr. Haines presented the petition of Anna E. Morris and Edwin E. Morris, asking the passage of a law in relation to a trust fund; which was Referred to the committee on judiciary. Mr. Burchard presented the petition of the board of supervisors of Stephenson county, asking the passage of a law for all taxes to be paid in United States treasury notes; which was Referred to a special committee. Mr. Merritt presented the petition of George McKinney, praying that he might be permitted to lay before the committee on agriculture his discovery of a cure for hog cholera. Referred to the committee on agriculture. Petition presented by Mr. Gibson, of Theodore Rolfe, Michael Fritz and forty-three others, praying for an act to incorporate the town of Whitefield, in the county of LaSalle. Referred to the committee on banks and corporations. Mr. Lawrence presented the petition of the board of supervisors of Boone county, praying for an act to levy a tax to pay off the orders issued to volunteers, known as the volunteer bounty orders, and also to extend the time for the collection of the taxes to the 15th day of March next. Referred to a special committee of three. The following messages were received from the Senate, by their Secretary, Mr. Mayfield, viz: Message from the Senate, by the hands of Manning Mayfield, their Secretary: Mr. Speaker: I am directed to inform the House of Representatives that the Senate has passed a bill by the following title, viz: A bill for "An act to legalize a tax in Whiteside county." In the passage of which I am directed to respectfully ask the concurrence of the House of Representatives. MANNING MAYFIELD, Sec'y of Senate. Message from the Senate, by the hands of Manning Mayfield, their Secretary: Mr. Speaker: I am directed to inform the House of Representatives that the Senate has passed a bill by the following title, viz: A bill for "An act to make United States legal tender treasury notes and postage currency receivable for taxes, and for redemption from tax sales." In the passage of which I am directed to respectfully ask the concurrence of the House of Representatives. MANNING MAYFIELD, Sec'y of Senate. Mr. Shope submitted the following: Resolved, That the message of the Governor of Illinois be laid upon the table and printed. Mr. Lawrence moved to amend the said resolution by inserting before the word "printed," the words "20,000 copies be." Mr. Underwood moved to amend the said resolution by inserting be fore "printed," "15,000 in English and 5,000 in German be." Mr. Conger offered the following substitute: Resolved, That 2,000 copies of the Governor's Message be printed, and that this House send it forth to the world, entering their solemn protest against its revolutionary and unconstitutional doctrines. Mr. Newport presented the credentials of C. A. Lake, of Kankakee, a member of this House; whereupon, Mr. Lake appeared, was duly sworn in by Judge Higbee, and took his seat. On motion of Mr. Daugherty, At 12:05 P. M., the House adjourned until two o'clock P. M. TWO O'CLOCK, P. M. House met, pursuant to adjournment. The Speaker appointed the following named gentlemen as a select committee to act upon the petition presented by Mr. Lawrence, relating to a special tax in Boone county for the payment of volunteer bounty orders, viz: Messrs. Lawrence, Wheat and Sharp. On motion of Mr. Burr, The rules were suspended, and Senate bill for "An act to make United States legal tender treasury notes and postage currency receivable for taxes, and for redemption from tax sales," was taken up, and read a first time. On motion of Mr. Burr, The rules were suspended, and the bill read a second time by its ti The rules were suspended, and the bill read a third time. It was decided in the affirmative, Those voting in the affirmative are, pass?" Mr. Speaker, Mr. Fuller and Mr. Smith of Union voted in the negative, On motion of Mr. Smith of Whiteside, The rules were suspended, and Senate bill for "An act to legalize a tax in Whiteside county" was read a first time, Message from the Senate, by Mr, Manning Mayfield, Secretary: Mr. Speaker: I am directed to inform the House of Representatives that the Senate have passed the following joint resolutions, viz: Resolved, by the Senate, the House concurring therein, That each Senator, and the several elective officers of the Senate, be furnished with newspapers equivalent to twenty-five copies of a daily paper, and that each member of the House of Representatives, and their several elective officers, be furnished with newspapers equivalent to twenty-five daily papers, to be paid for out of the contingent fund. Resolved, by the Senate, the House concurring therein, That the joint resolution of the last General Assembly, concerning postage and stationery, be adopted for the benefit of this session. I am further directed to respectfully ask the concurrence of the House of Representatives in the passage thereof. The following message was also received from the Senate by Mr. Mayfield, Secretary, viz: Mr. Speaker: I am directed to inform the House of Representatives that the Senate have passed the following bills, viz: A bill for "An act to amend an act entitled 'an act to incorporate the city of Hamilton."" A bill for "An act to attach a part of range 10 west, in Vermilion county, to range 11 west, in said county." I am further directed to respectfully ask the concurrence of the House of Representatives in the passage thereof. MANNING MAYFIELD, On motion of Mr. Smith of Whiteside, Sec'y of Senate. The rules were suspended, and Senate bill for "An act to legalize a tax in Whiteside county" was read a second time, by its title. On motion of Mr. Smith of Whiteside, The rules were suspended, and said bill read a third time. And the question being put, "Shall this bill pass ? " It was decided in the affirmative, Those voting in the affirmative are, Yeas.... .73 4 The rules were suspended, and the joint resolution relating to furnishing newspapers to members, and the several elective officers, was taken up, |