Mr. CLARK. The Senfrom Pennsylvania is entitled to the benefit of thatackuowl edgment that he voted for the law to shield a friend. Has anybody else got a friend that wants to be shielded? These men were soldiers of a common country, and if the Senfrom Pennsylvania will not shield them, the country should. Now and I am going to confine myself to this amendment it is admitted that this is necessary in the rebel States, if you permit me to call them so, or in the seceded States. But suppose a case occurred in the State of NewYork. I think it. was in 1863 when the riots occurred in the city of NewYork, and it was necessa to have a force there to maintain order. upposeGenlButler had said to one of his inferior Officers, “You must do so and so, ” and he went and did it in pursuance of keeping the peace there and maintaining the authority of the Government, is not that man to be shielded? Suppose you follow it down from soldier to soldier, if you follow the order from one grade to another, so long as the man acts under the order, so long should he be protected. I agree entirely with the Senfrom Illinois, that if a man has an order of this kind and with that order in his possession he abuses the order and does what he is not required by the order, he cannot protect himself under the order. Does the Senfrom Vermont think that he would be able to do so? If an officer by virtue of a writ should go and attempt to do certain things not commanded in the writ, and then should try to protect himself by the writ, it would be at once said, “ You did what you need not do and what the writ did not command yen to do.” Suppose a man comes upon in ground; I put him 06; and in putting imotI; without any necessity I kick him and abuse him, and he sues me in court, and I plead that he was on my ground and that I put him off. “Ahl but, ” says he, “you not only put me off, but you kicked me, " then it would not. defend me; there could be no pretense that it would defend me. So, if a man was commanded to go and taken home and impress him into the Army, and he went and robbed a house, the order would not protect him; or if he went and stole a ig, the order would not protect him. It is what he is commanded to do by the order that the order protects him against; and it should protect him inst that Ife must follow the line of his orers or he cannot be protected.