Six hundred thousand strong.”
The first session of the 37th Congress was a special one, called by the President. McPherson, in his classification of the membership, shows the changes in a body made historic, if such a thing can be, not only by its membership present, but that which had gone or made itself subject to expulsion by siding with the Confederacy. We quote the list so concisely and correctly presented:
MEMBERS OF THE 37TH CONGRESS.
March 4, 1861, to March 4, 1863.
Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine, President of the Senate.
SENATORS.
Maine—Lot M. Morrill, Wm. Pitt Fessenden.
New Hampshire—John P. Hale, Daniel Clark.
Vermont—Solomon Foot, Jacob Collamer.
Massachusetts—Charles Sumner, Henry Wilson.