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Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.1
all the cited clauses of the Constitution. One can scarcely anticipate such effrontery as would argue that due process of law meant an act of Congress, that judicial power could thus be conferred upon the President, and private property be confiscated for party success, without violating the Constitution which the actors had sworn to support. The unconstitutionality of the measure was so palpable that when the bill was under consideration Thaddeus Stevens, a member of Congress from Pennsylvania, said: I thought the time had come when the laws of war were to govern our action; when constitutions, if they stood in the way of the laws of war in dealing with the enemy, had no right to intervene. Who pleads the Constitution against our proposed action? Congress of the United States, July, 1861. This subject is further considered in subsequent chapters on the measures of emancipation adopted by the United States government. It is to be remembered in this connection that pillag
Fortress Monroe (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.1
lized nations. When prosecuting the war with Mexico, we respected private property of the enemy; when in 1781 Great Britain, attempting to reduce her revolted American colonies, took possession of the country around and about Point Comfort (Fortress Monroe), the homes quietly occupied by the rebellious people were spared by the armies of the self-asserting ruler of the land. At a later date, war existed between Great Britain and the independent states of the Union, during which Great Britain be given. This was, by confiscation, to punish a class of citizens, in the emancipation of every slave whose owner rendered support to the Confederate States. Finally General Halleck, who succeeded Fremont, and General Dix, commanding near Fortress Monroe, issued orders not to permit slaves to come within their lines. They were speedily condemned for this action because it put a stop to the current of emancipation, which will be hereafter narrated. Reference has been made to our want of
Europe (search for this): chapter 1.1
commanders to interfere for the restoration of fugitives; the United States government had refused to agree to an exchange of prisoners, and suffered those we had captured to languish in captivity; it had falsely represented us in every court of Europe, to defeat our efforts to obtain a recognition from foreign powers; it had seized a portion of the members of the legislature of one state and confined them in a distant military prison, because they were thought merely to sympathize with us, thould be guilty of a breach of the law of his own country, he could not be treated as a pirate, and those who treated him as a pirate would be guilty of murder. The appearance of this little fleet on the ocean made it necessary for the powers of Europe immediately to define their position relative to the contending powers. Great Britain, adopting a position of neutrality, and recognizing both as belligerents, interdicted the armed ships and privateers of both from carrying prizes into the wate
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 1.1
g and blood in which the government of the United States, driven to desperation by our successful rlicy and purposes of the Government of the United States stood revealed; the recent grant of a halfe nations. The vast provision made by the United States in the material of war, the money appropriecognized the separate existence of the Confederate States by an interdictive embargo, and blockademed to be due, to take up arms against the United States, or to work, or to be employed in or upon ate) States, should molest a vessel of the United States, or the persons or cargo on board, should nsified by its cowardice. Happily for the United States, the threat was not executed, but the failabolishing privateers might apply to the Confederate States. The offer, with the proviso, was honorvements on the theory that the laws of the United States have been for some time past and now are oolute sovereignty of the government of the United States, by the subjugation of states and their pe[28 more...]
Cairo (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.1
power led to the idle prophecy of our speedy subjection, and hence the government of the United States refused to act as required by humanity and the usages of civilized warfare. At length, moved by the clamors of the relatives and friends of the prisoners we held, and by fears of retaliation, it covertly submitted to abandon its declared purpose, and to shut its eyes while the exchanges were made by various commanders under flags of truce. Thus some were exchanged in New York, Washington, Cairo, and Columbus, Kentucky, and by General McClellan in western Virginia and elsewhere. On the whole, the partial exchanges were inconsiderable and inconclusive as to the main question. The condition at the close of the year 1861, summarily stated, was that soldiers captured in battle were not protected by the usage of exchange, and citizens were arrested without due process of law, deported to distant states, and incarcerated without assigned cause. All this by persons acting under authorit
England (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 1.1
exico, we respected private property of the enemy; when in 1781 Great Britain, attempting to reduce her revolted American colonies, took posserting ruler of the land. At a later date, war existed between Great Britain and the independent states of the Union, during which Great BriGreat Britain got possession of various points within the states. At the Treaty of Ghent, 1815, by which peace was restored to the two countries, it tification. John Quincy Adams, first as United States minister to England, and subsequently as United States Secretary of State, conducted witution as it might favor or injure one section or another, and Great Britain was, from a sense of right, compelled to recognize the wrong doly to define their position relative to the contending powers. Great Britain, adopting a position of neutrality, and recognizing both as beloffer, with the proviso, was honorably declined by both France and England. In the matter of the exchange of prisoners, which became impor
West Virginia (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.1
ce the government of the United States refused to act as required by humanity and the usages of civilized warfare. At length, moved by the clamors of the relatives and friends of the prisoners we held, and by fears of retaliation, it covertly submitted to abandon its declared purpose, and to shut its eyes while the exchanges were made by various commanders under flags of truce. Thus some were exchanged in New York, Washington, Cairo, and Columbus, Kentucky, and by General McClellan in western Virginia and elsewhere. On the whole, the partial exchanges were inconsiderable and inconclusive as to the main question. The condition at the close of the year 1861, summarily stated, was that soldiers captured in battle were not protected by the usage of exchange, and citizens were arrested without due process of law, deported to distant states, and incarcerated without assigned cause. All this by persons acting under authority of the United States government, but in disregard of the United
Charleston Harbor (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.1
ardice. Happily for the United States, the threat was not executed, but the failure to carry out the declared purpose was coupled with humiliation, because it was the result of a notice to retaliate as fully as might need be to stop such a barbarous practice. To yield to the notice thus served was a practical admission by the United States government that the Confederacy had become a power among the nations. On June 3, 1861, the little schooner Savannah, previously a pilot boat in Charleston harbor and sailing under a commission issued by authority of the Confederate States, was captured by the United States brig Perry. The crew was placed in irons and sent to New York. It appeared, from statements made without contradiction, that they were not treated as prisoners of war, whereupon a letter was addressed by me to President Lincoln, dated July 6th, stating explicitly that, painful as will be the necessity, this Government will deal out to the prisoners held by it the same treatm
Leesburg (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.1
had been long organized, and were complete; the navy and the army, once common to both, were in their possession. To meet all this we had to create not only an army in the face of war itself, but also military establishments necessary to equip and place it in the field. The spirit of the volunteers and the patriotism of the people enabled us, under Providence, to grapple successfully with these difficulties. A succession of glorious victories at Bethel, Manassas, Springfield, Lexington, Leesburg, and Belmont, checked the invasion of our soil. After seven months of war the enemy had not only failed to extend their occupancy of the soil, but new states and territories had been added to our confederacy. Instead of their threatened march of unchecked conquest, the enemy was driven at more than one point to assume the defensive; and, upon a fair comparison between the two belligerents, as to men, military means, and financial condition, the Confederate States were relatively much stro
Ghent, N. Y. (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.1
s Congress declared object of the war powers of United States government forfeitures inflicted due process of law, how interpreted who pleads the Constitution? wanton destruction of private property unlawful Adams on terms of the Treaty of Ghent sectional Hatred order of President Lincoln to army officers in regard to slaves Educating the people Fremont's proclamation proclamation of General W. T. Sherman proclamation of General Halleck and others letters of marque our privateersd by the armies of the self-asserting ruler of the land. At a later date, war existed between Great Britain and the independent states of the Union, during which Great Britain got possession of various points within the states. At the Treaty of Ghent, 1815, by which peace was restored to the two countries, it was stipulated in the first article that all captured places should be restored without causing any destruction, or carrying away any of the artillery or other public property originally
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