Slaves were added to his class only after it was learned that they were thus employed by the Confederates.

Not only therefore did the Confederacy introduce slaves as a component element of the military force, but it resorted to confiscation of a cruel and rigorous type as one of the sources of financial strength.

If the Confederate authorities had not thus set the example, it would have been difficult, perhaps impracticable, to induce Congress to entertain such a line of policy.

Many were in favor of it from the first, but so many were against it that the precedent thus established by the Confederacy was not only an irresistible temptation but a justifying cause for lines of National policy which were afterwards complained of as unusual and oppressive.
[* NOTE .-- The following is a complete list of the Senators who served in the Thirty-seventh Congress.

Republicans in Roman, Democrats in Italic, American or Old-Line Whigs in small capitals.
CALIFORNIA .-- _Milton S.Latham; James A.McDougall._ CONNECTICUT .-- James Dixon; Lafayette S.Foster.
DELAWARE .-- _James A.Bayard; Willard Saulsbury._ ILLINOIS .-- _Stephen A.Douglas_, died June 3, 1861; Lyman Trumbull; Orville H.Browning, appointed in place of Douglas; _William A.
Richardson_, elected in place of Douglas.
INDIANA .-- _Jesse D.Bright_, expelled Feb.