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The Daily Dispatch: June 15, 1863., [Electronic resource], The flags of truce over Exiles. (search)
Important question. --A question of vast importance to every citizen is to come before the Mayor in a few days, and from his investigation may find its way to the highest courts in the State--that question is, "What is Martial Law?"--"Whence the power for its establishment?" In reviewing a small affair Friday morning, in which two of the Provost Marshal's deputies were concerned, the Mayor asked the C. S. District Attorney to point him to the law of the Confederacy or the State providing for the establishment of martial law, which that gentleman could not then do. The Mayor could understand why military law, for the government of the army, was necessary; but if there was no constitutional authority for martial law, he could not see by what right detectives undertook to search the houses of citizens and take from them property of any kind. If the Mayor is right in his conclusions, and the higher courts sustain him, will it not be proper to inquire into the acts of the Provost Ma