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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 149 (search)
The Daily Dispatch: February 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National Crisis. (search)
The Daily Dispatch: November 20, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Pennsylvania decision on the conscript act. (search)
The Pennsylvania decision on the conscript act.
--The recent decision of Judges Lowrie, Thompson, and Woodard, of Philadelphia, that the U. S. draft is unconstitutional, has been published.
The decision will amount in effect to nothing nor will any other legal decision do more, it is adverse to the Government now ruling with a rod of iron the free and glorious Yankee nation.
The New York News says:
However much the opinions of Administration organs may be at variance with those of our constituted tribunals, we trust that all parties will accept the law as interpreted by its legitimate expounders.
There may be no penalty for insult, but there is for violation of the law, and that penalty will attach to the highest in authority as well as to the humblest citizen.
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has declared that certain citizens of that State have been deprived of liberty, placed under military restraint, and subjected to great privation, suffering and danger, by a pro
Affairs in Gloucester. [Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.] Gloucester Co., Va., April 13.
The Yankee in this region are troublesome, Spears's cavalry, stationed at Glouster Point, have made several raids through the county recently, stealing and destroying the actual necessaries of life from the defenceless inhabitants.
The gunboats continue their usual voyages up York over as far as West Point.
Last week a deserter, named Woodard, from the Gloucester Light Dragoons, escorted by several marines, burnt a barn, filled with grain, belonging to Lieut Leavitt, of same company.
Large fleets of Eastern vessels are busily engaged stealing oysters, Brig Gen.
Wistar, commanding at Yorktown, informs the citizens that for every vessel that is destroyed by our troops he (Gen Wistar) intends retaliating by applying the torch to some peaceful dwelling located on the river.
Surely the condition of the Gloucester people is heart-rending. A. J. A.