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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)
, after consulting with his legal advisers, from all obligations to respect the habeas corpus. On the 27th of April an order from Mr. Lincoln, countersigned by Mr. Seward, Secretary of State, officially informed General Scott, commander of the army, of this decision and the powers it conferred upon him in those districts occupiede passed a resolution ordering them to be set at liberty en masse. The government hastened to obey this mandate; and, on the very day the resolution was passed, Mr. Seward ordered General McClellan to extend the protection of the military power to all fugitives, notifying the civil authorities that they should no longer be allowede President had proclaimed the complete abolition of slavery in all the States in rebellion against the Union. He had only confided this final determination to Mr. Seward, the true statesman of his cabinet, and when the journals of Washington published the proclamation signed by the one and countersigned by the other, the newspa