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The Daily Dispatch: August 19, 1864., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: August 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
Confederate States District Court. --The business of this court yesterday was opened by the rendition of Judge Halyburton's decision in the habeas corpus case of Robert F. Hobbs, who sues out for exemption from military service on the ground that he is a Marylander and has been exiled from his home in consequence of sentiments entertained by him adverse to the prosecution of the war by the United States Government. Judge Halyburton sustained the grounds which were argued by the petitionern history where persons were exiled from home on account of their political sentiments, they could not be legally required to take up arms in defence of a country which was at war with the nation from which they had fled; and the application of Mr. Hobbs being based upon this ground, he had no other recourse than to set him at liberty. Judge Halyburton's decision was made orally, and occupied only a few minutes in its delivery. It is a very important one, from the fact that it will effect the