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eldom resorted to. Thus it happened with Mr. Boileau, the editor of a Philadelphia newspaper, who, having been arrested in the month of January in consequence of some articles openly favoring the South, was restored to liberty and the use of his printing-presses at the end of eight days on his promise to be more guarded in the future. In the month of December, after laying on the table all propositions censuring the government, Congress proceeded to discuss, and finally adopted on the 3d of March, 1863, so memorable in legislative history, an indemnity act, or a law endorsing the measures taken by the President for the purpose of suspending the writ of habeas corpus, and confirming explicitly the powers which, in the absence of a positive constitutional enactment, he had deemed it his duty to exercise on his own responsibility. He soon made use of this power in a striking manner, and in connection with a matter which caused more excitement throughout the country than all the arres