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Baltimore (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.29
tutional authority for this organized military force to occupy the state. The commanding general, Schenck, soon issued an order, of which the following is an extract: Martial law is declared and hereby established in the city and county of Baltimore, and in all the counties of the Western Shore of Maryland. The commanding General gives assurance that this suspension of civil government within the limits defined shall not extend beyond the necessities of the occasion. All the civil courtsle sentiments, was held for examination. Two, charged with cheering for Jefferson Davis, took the oath and were released. One case more must be stated. On May 25, 1861, John Merryman, a most respectable citizen of the state, residing in Baltimore County, was seized in his bed by an armed force and imprisoned in Fort McHenry. He petitioned the Chief Justice of the United States that a writ of habeas corpus might be issued, which was granted. The officer upon it was served declined to obey
Maryland (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.29
aryland, Kentucky, and Missouri a military force invades Maryland and occupies Baltimore martial law declared civil goveruted to effect. In this manner the state government of Maryland was subjugated. A military force, under the authority ofaltimore, and in all the counties of the Western Shore of Maryland. The commanding General gives assurance that this suspenited States had no constitutional permission to come into Maryland and exercise authority; that the commanding general says mendment A further subversion of the state government of Maryland was next made by a direct interference with the electioned to vote being put to any test not found in the laws of Maryland. President Lincoln declined to interfere with the order, t power never made, even in a rebel State, than it did in Maryland on the 3d of last November. A part of the army, which a o authorized a poll to be opened in each company of every Maryland regiment in the service of the United States at the quart
Baltimore City (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.29
he action of the authorities there, 11 to the North, 6 across the lines, and 19 were held for further examination. On September 11, 1863, one of the city newspapers published the poem entitled The Southern Cross. The publishers and editor were immediately arrested, not allowed communication with any person whatever, and on the same day sent across the lines, with the understanding that they should not return during the war. On July 2d an order was issued which forbade the citizens of Baltimore city and county to keep arms unless they were enrolled as volunteer companies. The Fifty-first Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers was placed at the disposal of General E. B. Tyler, assisted by the provost marshal and the chief of police. The soldiers, in concert with the police, formed into parties of three or four, and were soon diligently engaged in searching houses. Large wagons were provided, and muskets, carbines, rifles, revolvers of all kinds, sabers, bayonets, swords, and bird an
Baltimore, Md. (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.29
Chapter 43: Subjugation of the border States, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri a military force invades Maryland and occupies Baltimore martial law declared civil government of the state suspended unalienable rights of the citizens invaded arrests of citizens commenced case of John Merryman opinion of Chief Just this manner the state government of Maryland was subjugated. A military force, under the authority of the government of the United States, occupied the city of Baltimore at a time when no invasion of the state was threatened, and when there had been no application of the legislature, or of the Executive, for protection against dol of the most steadfast and most uncompromising loyalists of the Shore. The jail of the county was entered, the jailer seized, imprisoned, and afterward sent to Baltimore, and prisoners confined therein under indictment set at liberty. The commanding officer gave the first clew to the kind of disloyalty against which he considere
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 1.29
is military force of the government of the United States had no constitutional permission to come iy. He petitioned the Chief Justice of the United States that a writ of habeas corpus might be issunt, under the Constitution and laws of the United States, can not suspend the privilege of the wrilthy manner in which the government of the United States proceeded at the outset in each instance un of the bayonets of the government of the United States. The total vote was 85,695. In 1860 the tuted. The election of a President of the United States was to be held in November, but the govern, and Illinois. . . . The authority of the United States is paramount, and, whenever it is apparented into the state by the government of the United States so rapidly as to render the successful oppples and of laws, by the government of the United States and its champions, contained in the few lie. The severity of the Executive of the United States now began to be felt by the citizens of th[28 more...]
Kansas (Kansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.29
on on the part of the State authorities to prevent them. It is enough that they continue, and it will devolve on you the duty of putting a stop to them summarily by the force under your command, to be aided by such troops as you may require from Kansas, Iowa, and Illinois. . . . The authority of the United States is paramount, and, whenever it is apparent that a movement, whether by order of State authority or not, is hostile, you will not hesitate to put it down. In this order the only prehe remorseless usurper. The subjugation of the state government of Missouri to the will and designs of the government at Washington had been determined upon, and the sovereignty of the people was to be crushed by troops from the sister states of Kansas, Iowa, and Illinois. But the bravery of the governor and the determination of the legislature caused the government of the United States to depart from its usually stealthy progress in the invasion of the state government and the sovereignty o
Kentucky (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.29
43: Subjugation of the border States, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri a military force invades Maryland and occution emancipation hardly carried first open measures in Kentucky interference at the state election by the United States s of its unscrupulous and lawless outrages. In the state of Kentucky the first open and direct measures taken by the govermistakably define the popular will and public judgment of Kentucky. It is settled that Kentucky will, with unwavering faithKentucky will, with unwavering faith and unswerving purpose, stand by and support the Government in every effort to suppress the rebellion and maintain the Unio, a very different state of feeling would have existed in Kentucky. But, instead of carrying them out, the most offensive a the United States in the subversion of the government of Kentucky was the destruction of the unalienable right of personal tes was more rapid and more desperate than in the case of Kentucky. As previously stated, the governor of the state, at the
Louisville (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.29
Department of the Ohio issued an order declaring the state under martial law, and said, It is for the purpose, only, of protecting, if necessary, the rights of loyal citizens and the freedom of elections. He would have more correctly said, It is for the purpose of enforcing and securing a majority for the candidates of my views. The general in command in the western part of the state issued an order to regulate the election in that quarter, and the colonels at every post did likewise. In Louisville, on the day of election, there were ten soldiers with muskets at each voting place who, with crossed bayonets, stood in the doors, preventing all access of voters to the polls but by their permission, and who arrested and carried to the military prison all whom they were told to arrest. Out of some eight thousand voters in the city, less than five thousand votes were taken. How many of the missing three thousand were deterred from attempting to vote could not be ascertained, nor was it
Iowa (Iowa, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.29
he part of the State authorities to prevent them. It is enough that they continue, and it will devolve on you the duty of putting a stop to them summarily by the force under your command, to be aided by such troops as you may require from Kansas, Iowa, and Illinois. . . . The authority of the United States is paramount, and, whenever it is apparent that a movement, whether by order of State authority or not, is hostile, you will not hesitate to put it down. In this order the only pretext purseless usurper. The subjugation of the state government of Missouri to the will and designs of the government at Washington had been determined upon, and the sovereignty of the people was to be crushed by troops from the sister states of Kansas, Iowa, and Illinois. But the bravery of the governor and the determination of the legislature caused the government of the United States to depart from its usually stealthy progress in the invasion of the state government and the sovereignty of the p
Illinois (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.29
he State authorities to prevent them. It is enough that they continue, and it will devolve on you the duty of putting a stop to them summarily by the force under your command, to be aided by such troops as you may require from Kansas, Iowa, and Illinois. . . . The authority of the United States is paramount, and, whenever it is apparent that a movement, whether by order of State authority or not, is hostile, you will not hesitate to put it down. In this order the only pretext put forward isper. The subjugation of the state government of Missouri to the will and designs of the government at Washington had been determined upon, and the sovereignty of the people was to be crushed by troops from the sister states of Kansas, Iowa, and Illinois. But the bravery of the governor and the determination of the legislature caused the government of the United States to depart from its usually stealthy progress in the invasion of the state government and the sovereignty of the people, and t
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