SENATE, May 6, 1864. — Considered and postponed to, and made 
 special order for, Monday next, at one o'clock, and /irdercd to be 
 printed. 
 
 [By Mr. Wigfall.] . » 
 
 EESOLTJTIOISrS 
 
 In relation to the suspension of the privilege of the writ of Iiabcas 
 
 corpus. 
 
 1 1. Resohvedy That the Congress of the Confederate States has 
 
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 2 the undoubted right, during invasion or rebellion, and when the 
 8 public safety require it, to suspend the privilege of the writ of 
 
 4 Jiabeas corpus and that while so suspended it is not competent for 
 
 5 any Confederate Judge to discharge from custody any prisoner 
 
 6 held under or by virtue of the authority of the Confederate 
 
 7 States. • * . 
 
 1 2. Resolved, That the State courts being established by State 
 S authority can in no manner be affected by Confederate legislation, 
 
 3 and that, therefore, an act of the Confederate Congress . 
 
 4 suspending the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus does not 
 
 5 apply to them and in no wise prevents their exercising such 
 
 6 jurisdiction or issuing such writs as by the laws of their States 
 
 7 they are allowed to exercise or issue. * 
 
 1 3. Resolved, That the State and Confederate Governments are 
 
 2 s^arate, distinct, and co-ordinate Governments ; that each has its 
 
3 legislative, excca:i>,^ au<i jm'jj' ni mvjmiluh uir, .mtl is a perfect 
 
 4 Government in itself, and that, thorofore, neither can interfere 
 
 5 in any ^jiannur with thu. fegislitivc, executive or judicial action 
 
 6 ^of the other, and that the courts of neither can inquire into the 
 
 7 legality or illegality of the arrests oi pvi >u:io in cuMody under 
 
 8 or by the authority of the other or afford such persons any 
 
 9 relief. • " 
 
 I 4. Resolved, That the Constitution of the Confederate States 
 
 S is, as to the States, and between them, a compact, and that ok^ has, 
 
 3 as in all cases of compacts between sovereigns, a perfect right to 
 
 4 declare its true intent and meaning, and that the citizens of each 
 
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 5 State are bound by such decision. 
 
 1 5. Resolved, That, as to the citizens of cacu oiate, the Con- 
 
 2 Btitution of the (Confederate States, having been ordained and 
 
 3 established by the same authority as their State Constitution, is 
 
 4 equally supreme and binding over theiu as their State Constitu- 
 
 5 tion is, and that the Government established by it, to the extent 
 
 6 of its delegated powers, of which the State only is the judge, is 
 
 7 as fully empowered to act for them as their State Governments, 
 
 8 and that when it does so act, their State Government, having no 
 
 9 supremacy over the Confederate Government, cannot release them 
 10 ff%m their obligation to obey.