General Cox, on taking the chair, made an address of great firmness.

It was even radical in its positions and aggressive in its general tone.
He said it was "unpleasant to recognize the truth that it is in the minds of some to exalt the Executive Department of the Government into a despotic power and to abase the representative portion of our Government into the mere tools of despotism.

Learning that this is the case, we now, as heretofore, know our duty, and knowing, dare maintain it.

The citizen soldiery of the United States recognize the Congress of the United States as the representative government of the people.

We know and all traitors know that the will of the people has been expressed in the complexion and character of the existing Congress.