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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 5. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Decision of the Supreme Court of Tennessee that the Confederacy was de jure as well as de facto-opinion of Judge Turney. (search)
reference to the condition of things created by the acts of the governing power, it results that the Government of The Confederate States of America and its constituent members had the power, and exercised it, of making laws for their own government and that of its citizens:--that the citizen had no escape from them :--that this contract was made freely and voluntarily, and was lawful,--interpreted with reference to the condition of things at the time of its creation; which made, as Chief Justice Chase says in the opinion already quoted, obedience to its authority in civil and local matters, not only a necessity, but a duty. It has been repeatedly held that the Government of the Confederate States was a government de facto, with belligerent rights. In Smith v. Brazleton, 1 Heis., 46, Judge Nelson, a statesman and jurist, in whose opinion we see the hand of a master, said, That although municipal rights of sovereignty remained in the United States during the late civil war, and