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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book VII:—politics. (search)
of Congress in December, 1862, the Peace Democrats made another attack upon the government in relation to the habeas corpus, no notice was taken of their denunciations. The vote of censure asked for by the opposition was again refused in both houses by large majorities. They were, moreover, about to pass a law conferring upon the President in explicit terms the power he had thus been exercising for nearly two years with their consent. This law having only gone into operation on the 1st of March, 1863, it belongs to another portion of our history. We shall conclude this sketch of the political legislation in the North during the first two years of the war by reminding the reader that the right of summary arrest was exercised by the President, not only against individuals, but also against newspapers, if we may so express ourselves. At the outset of Mr. Lincoln's administration some of the journals published in the great Northern cities openly preached rebellion; the respect usua