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607 SANSOM STREET army capital or otherwise circumstances which show citizen of Ohio city of Albany constitute the foundation constitutional and lawful courts defined crime demnation Democrats earnest consideration ELI PERRY enduring stability ERASTUS CORNING habeas corpus Harvard College Library held to answer impartial jury intended more especially Jackson arrested KING & BAIRD law of evidence lawful measure LEMUEL W liberty of speech lines of necessary measure to suppress military arrests military law otherwise infamous crime peace through victory PETER GANSEVOORT power were intended pretensions of arbitrary proceedings following protracted civil public meeting held public safety public trial reason than words rebellion or invasion republican system RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED Resolved safeguards safety may require SAMUEL W scenes of insurrection secured substantially speedy and public stitution stood the test suppress the rebellion sustain the cause tary test of seventy-six tion treason trial by jury Vallandigham WILLIAM SEYMOUR words addressed York point
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Page 4 - The Constitution itself makes the distinction ; and I can no more be persuaded that the government can constitutionally take no strong measures in time of rebellion, because it can be shown that the same could not be lawfully taken in time of peace, than I can be persuaded that a particular drug is not good medicine for a sick man, because it can be shown not to be good food for a well one.
Page 3 - If I be wrong on the question of constitutional power, my error lies in believing that certain proceedings are constitutional when, in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety requires them, which would not be constitutional when, in the absence of rebellion or invasion, the public safety does not require them.
Page 5 - ... me ; and the judge who rejected the constitutional view expressed in these resolutions, by refusing to discharge Mr. Vallandigham on habeas corpus is a democrat of better days than these, having received his judicial mantle at the hands of President Jackson. And still more, of all those democrats who are nobly exposing their lives and shedding their blood on the battle-field, I have learned that many approve the course taken with Mr. Vallandigham, while I have not heard of a single one condemning...
Page 3 - He was not arrested because he was damaging the political 12 prospects of the Administration, or the personal interests of the commanding general, but because he was damaging the army, upon the existence and vigor of which the life of the nation depends.
Page 1 - Franklin Buchanan, now occupying the very highest places in the rebel war service, were all within the power of the government since the rebellion began, and were nearly as well known to be traitors then as now. Unquestionably if we had seized and held them the insurgent cause would be much weaker. But no one of them had then committed any crime denned in the law.
Page 1 - ... attests their purpose that in such cases, men may be held in custody whom the courts acting on ordinary rules, would discharge. Habeas corpus, does not discharge men who are proved to be guilty of defined crime; and its suspension is allowed by the Constitution on purpose that men may be arrested and held, who cannot be proved to be guilty of defined crime, "when, in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it.