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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II., chapter 21 (search)
y branch of the State Government. For — as if to render the popular verdict more emphatic--Chief Justice Lowrie, who pronounced the decision of the Supreme Court, adjudging the Enrollment Act unconstitutional, was a candidate for reelection, opposed by Daniel Agnew, Republican, by whom — though comparatively unknown to the people — he was conclusively beaten. Agnew, 267,257; Lowrie, 254,855. And the Court, as thus reconstituted by the election of Judge Agnew, reviewed and reversed Jan. 16, 1864. the decision pronounced by Chief Justice Lowrie. Said Judge Agnew, in his opinion: The constitutional authority to use the national forces creates a corresponding duty to provide a number adequate to the necessity. The duty is vital and essential, falling back on the fundamental right of self-preservation, and the powers expressed to declare war, raise armies, maintain navies, and provide for the common defense. Power and duty now go hand in land with the extremity, until every a<