American Bastile: A History of the Illegal Arrests and Imprisonment of American Citizens During the Late Civil War ...T. W. Hartley, 1869 - 728 Seiten |
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... Friends who attempted to petition were marked and forced to desist . Jealousy and hate revelled in the anticipated carnival , until friends and foes looked upon the tragedy as a fixed fact . Now retaliation was assuming form , though ...
... Friends who attempted to petition were marked and forced to desist . Jealousy and hate revelled in the anticipated carnival , until friends and foes looked upon the tragedy as a fixed fact . Now retaliation was assuming form , though ...
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... friends of constitutional liberty - the Colonel wrote a note to the ward- en , calling attention to the fact , and requesting him to in- form himself of his duty , and that his duty and the Colonel's wishes tended in the same direction ...
... friends of constitutional liberty - the Colonel wrote a note to the ward- en , calling attention to the fact , and requesting him to in- form himself of his duty , and that his duty and the Colonel's wishes tended in the same direction ...
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... friends , and conveyed to a political Bastile , where you were confined for months , without any ac- cusation made against you . Charges were then preferred for what ? Treason ! Treason to what ? Treason not against the Government , but ...
... friends , and conveyed to a political Bastile , where you were confined for months , without any ac- cusation made against you . Charges were then preferred for what ? Treason ! Treason to what ? Treason not against the Government , but ...
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... friends and neighbors . You come home to obey the Consti- tution and laws , as you have done during your entire life . This large assembly of your fellow - citizens bears me witness of the fact . While they look upon you to - day ...
... friends and neighbors . You come home to obey the Consti- tution and laws , as you have done during your entire life . This large assembly of your fellow - citizens bears me witness of the fact . While they look upon you to - day ...
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... friends and neigh- bors , for this glowing tribute of esteem , and I would be the more happy recipient of it if I was sure that , through the ordeal which I have just passed , my deportment was worthy of so flattering a token . Your ...
... friends and neigh- bors , for this glowing tribute of esteem , and I would be the more happy recipient of it if I was sure that , through the ordeal which I have just passed , my deportment was worthy of so flattering a token . Your ...
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accused arrest arrived authority Baltimore Bastile Benedict called Captain casemates cause charge citizen Colonel Dimick command commission confined Congress Constitution counsel County Court crime custody Democratic Department Deputy despotism discharged District duty elected Erie County Federal fellow-prisoners Fort Delaware Fort Hamilton Fort Lafayette Fort McHenry Fort Mifflin Fort Warren friends furnished gentlemen Government Governor guard habeas corpus honor hour hundred Illinois imprisonment incarcerated informed Judge Advocate Lafayette land letter liberty Lieutenant Wood Lincoln Macgill Mahony Maryland McHenry ment military morning never night o'clock P.M. oath offence Old Capitol Prison outrage papers parole party permitted persons political President Provost Marshal received refused release replied Secretary Secretary of War Senate sent September Seward Sheean Signed SIMON CAMERON soldiers Stanton taken tion trial United violation Warren Washington Winder writ of habeas York
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Seite 379 - Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!
Seite li - Senators. The Congress shall assemble at least once in every Year, and such Meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by Law appoint a different Day.
Seite xxiii - Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government, they will cling and grapple to you ; and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance. But let it be once understood that your government may be one thing, and their privileges another ; that these two things may exist without any mutual relation ; the cement is gone, the cohesion is loosened, and everything hastens to decay and dissolution.
Seite lxvi - Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. ARTICLE XIV.
Seite l - No Person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen. 'The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided.
Seite lii - Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been encreased during such time ; and no Person holding any Office under the United States, shall be a Member of either House during his Continuance in Office.
Seite 432 - Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, two-thirds of both Houses concurring, That the following Articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as amendments to the Constitution of the United States...
Seite 432 - THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added...
Seite lii - Neither House, during the Session of Congress, shall, without the Consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other Place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting.
Seite lxii - Articles in Addition to, and Amendment of, the Constitution of the United States of America, Proposed by Congress, and Ratified by the Legislatures of the Several States Pursuant to the Fifth Article of the Original Constitution...