Mir. MARSHALL. This bill is to be construed by a class of men to whom I shall refer directly, and who I suppose may be called judges, who are created by this bill as officers from whose decisions there is no appeal, and which the military is to be called upon to on force. I intend briefly to show the reasons for my saying that under this bill you are establishing military tribunals in every county in the U.S., in each State “ where the course of judicial proceedings has been interrupted by the rebellion.” Now, I say that in one sense the course of judicial roccedings hasbeen interrupted by the rebelion in every State in the Union. Dnrinrv the rebellion, and as a result of it, the priviienmr the writ of habeascorpus was suspended, and martial lnw was declared as the law of the land over this entire Union. Men were arrested in disregard of the laws of the States, and the jiiilgrs of the State of Illinois were pprohibited from exercising their jurisdiction and duties in many respects, and one of them, Judge Constable, was impris oned in consequence of the performance of his official duties. He was seized and dragged o!? to another State and there kept in custody, because he attempted to enforce the laws of the State of Illinois. Another eminentjudge of my State was dragged away from his home and official duties and imprisoned for months within sight of this Capitol. Martial law prevailed as the law of the land, as the result of the rebellion. in every State of the Union, and the course of judicial proceedings was to that extent interrupted, as the result of the rebellion in every State. Whctheithat would be the construction that a Chief Justice Marshall or any other cmment jurist would place upon this provision, I cannot say. We are to consider whether those who are to cufbm this law, and From whose 18. 629 decision there is no appeal, will so construe it. I They are to be the servants of the man who may be at the head of the War Dept and he is to send his military satraps into every county and district of these States. And they may enslave and put down the entire white people of the country by virtue of this law.;