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The Daily Dispatch: April 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], Secession in Court. (search)
Secession in Court. --A day or two ago one William Chester was arraigned before the Kenlon (Ky.) Circuit Court, charged with passing a counterfeit bill on the State Bank of Louisiana. After the evidence was hard, counsel for the prisoner claimed that as the State of Louisiana had seceded, the court had no jurisdiction in the case. Judge Moore, however, ruled that as neither the President of the United States nor Congress has recognized secession, the trial would proceed under the laws, ed with passing a counterfeit bill on the State Bank of Louisiana. After the evidence was hard, counsel for the prisoner claimed that as the State of Louisiana had seceded, the court had no jurisdiction in the case. Judge Moore, however, ruled that as neither the President of the United States nor Congress has recognized secession, the trial would proceed under the laws, of Kentucky; and it did, resulting in the jury awarding Mr. Chester three years in the penitentiary.--Louisville Courier.
The Daily Dispatch: June 2, 1862., [Electronic resource], Virginians in the battle of Shiloh, (search)
killed a great many." It is very doubtful whether or no this is true. The women of the town hardly fired the guns. Probably they were too glad to see the Yankees going to delay the department of even one of them by a wound from a pistol shot. The statement may be never be taken as an indication of what the writer thinks of the women of Winchester. Their fidelity to their country was so marked that the Yankee not only expected no sympathy from them in the reverse which hurried him from Wm. Chester, but he even feared they would give him a parting shot as he fled. So the well aimed bullets, which are alleged to have killed many of his comrades, are charged upon the paddies! But how can the Yankees hope for a restoration of a Union with a people whose women even take up arms against them!--Go where they may they find the ladies firm in their devotion to the South, giving the invader no encouragement, and showing him no respect, until they have brought down upon themselves a full sh