Our National Constitution: Its Adaptation to a State of War Or Insurrection, a Treatise |
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affording aid aid and comfort aiders and abettors C. J. Marshall capture carry cause the laws civil clause Commander-in-chief common law Congress Constitution and laws danger DANIEL AGNEW declare martial law defeat disaster discouraging volunteer enlistments disloyalty due process duly executed duty emancipation enemy exercise exigency faithfully executed felony Fort Moultrie freedom of speech guilty habeas corpus HARVARD COLLEGE JUDGE SEVENTEENTH JUDICIAL letters of marque levied liberty loyal soil martial law means ment military act military arrest military authority military cognizance military necessity navy neces North obstruction ordinance of secession overthrow peace Pennsylvania persons discouraging volunteer PRESIDENT JUDGE SEVENTEENTH process of law Proclamation prosecution protect public safety question rebel rection repel resist says seceding seize seizure SEVENTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT sity sound discretion stitution subdue suppress insurrections suppress the rebellion tical tion traitors treason troops Union United vessel wage warrant writ of habeas York harbor
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Page 5 - Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise, The queen of the world, and the child of the skies.
Page 7 - It is not the intention of the court to say, that no individual can be guilty of this crime, who has not appeared in arms against his country; on the contrary, if war be actually levied, that is, if a body of men be...
Page 26 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free...
Page 12 - That whenever the laws of the United States shall be opposed, or the execution thereof obstructed, in any state, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by...
Page 7 - It is a technical term. It is used in a very old statute of that country whose language is our language, and whose laws form the substratum of our laws. It is scarcely conceivable that the term was not employed by the framers of our constitution in the sense which had been affixed to it by those from whom we borrowed it.
Page 33 - That during the existing insurrection, and as a necessary measure for suppressing the same, all rebels and insurgents, their aiders and abettors, within the United States, and all persons discouraging volunteer enlistments, resisting militia drafts, or guilty of any disloyal practice, affording aid and comfort to rebels against the authority of the United States, shall be subject to martial law, and liable to trial and punishment by courts-martial or military commission.
Page 7 - Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the "United States of America,
Page 12 - States to call forth the militia for the purpose of suppressing such insurrection or of causing the laws to be duly executed, it shall be lawful for him to employ for the same purposes such part of the land or naval force of the United States as shall be judged necessary, having first observed all the prerequisites of the law in that respect.
Page 27 - The Constitution and laws of the United States are the supreme law of the land, and to these every citizen of every State owes obedience, whether in his individual or official capacity.
Page 12 - March 3, 1807, it is provided, " that in all cases of insurrection or obstruction to the laws, either of the United States or any individual State, or Territory, where it is lawful for the President of the United States to call forth the militia for the purpose of suppressing such insurrection, or of causing the laws to be duly executed...