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 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, January 11, 1665.— Re- 
 ferred to Committee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed. 
 
 [By Mr. Milks. 
 
 RESOLTJTIOlSrS. 
 
 1 Resolved, That, under the Constitution, Congress alone has 
 
 2 the power lo declare war, and the President, by and with the 
 
 3 advice and consent of the Senate, the power to make a treaty 
 
 4 of peace. 
 
 1 Resolved, That all attempts to make peace with the United 
 
 2 States, by the action or intervention of the separate States com- 
 
 3 posing this Confederacy, are unauthorized by the Constitution, 
 
 4 in contravention of the supreme law of the land, and therefore 
 t5 revolutionary. 
 
 1 Resolved, That the Confederate States are prosecuting the 
 
 2 war in which they are engaged for the purpose of establishing 
 
 3 their independence as a separate power, ar.d that in so doing 
 
 4 they are exercising the natural and inalienable right claimed 
 
 5 by them in the revolution of 76, which established their inde- 
 fi pendence of the British crrwn. 
 
 1 Resolved, That we, the Representatives of the people of the 
 
 2 Confederate States, are firmly determined to continue th^ 
 S struggle in which we are involved, until the United States shall 
 
 4 acknowledge our independence, and to this determination, with 
 
 5 a sincere conviction of the justice of our cause, and an humble 
 
 6 reliance upon the Supreme Ruler of Nations, we do solemnly 
 
 7 and faithfully pledge ourselves.