| Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - History - 1977 - 292 pages
...Union, Constitution, and law, all together, the Government would, in great degree, be restrained by the same Constitution and law from arresting their...press," and "habeas corpus," they hoped to keep on foot among us a most efficient corps of spies, informers, suppliers, and aiders and abettors of their cause... | |
| James M. McPherson - History - 1988 - 952 pages
...withal a great mercy." This "giant rebellion" reached into the North itself, Lincoln continued, where "under cover of 'liberty of speech,' 'liberty of the press,' and Habeas corpus,' [the rebels] hoped to keep on foot amongst us a most efficient corps of spies, informers, suppliers,... | |
| James M. McPherson - History - 2003 - 947 pages
...withal a great mercy." This "giant rebellion" reached into the North itself, Lincoln continued, where "under cover of 'liberty of speech,' 'liberty of the press,' and Habeas corpus,' [the rebels] hoped to keep on foot amongst us a most efficient corps of spies, informers, suppliers,... | |
| Mark E. Neely Jr. - History - 1992 - 297 pages
...conspiracy aimed at his civil libertarian opponents. The rebels, Lincoln argued, had planned all along "to keep on foot amongst us a most efficient corps of spies, informers, supplyers and aiders and abettors of their cause" under cover of specious cries for liberty of speech,... | |
| Gabor S. Boritt - History - 1992 - 273 pages
...the internal threat behind the lines in the North with stern urgency. Rebel sympathizers, he said, "pervaded all departments of the government and nearly all communities of the people. . . . Under cover of 'Liberty of speech,' 'Liberty of the press,' and 'habeas corpus/ they hoped to... | |
| Stephen B. Oates - History - 2009 - 242 pages
...arrests. From the outset, Lincoln dealt harshly with "the enemy in the rear" — with what he called "a most efficient corps of spies, informers, suppliers, and aiders and abettors" of the rebellion who took advantage of "Liberty of speech, Liberty of the press and Habeas corpus" to... | |
| Paul M. Zall - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 220 pages
...Union, Constitution, and law, all together, the government would, in great degree, be restrained by the same Constitution and law, from arresting their...amongst us a most efficient corps of Spies, informers, supplyers, and aiders and abettors of their cause in a thousand ways. They knew that in times such... | |
| Alan T. Nolan - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 332 pages
...facts, Lincoln contended that, at the time that he took office, persons sympathetic to secession had "pervaded all departments of the government, and nearly all communities of the people," and that the South relied on this fact and the ability of these sympathizers to subvert the government... | |
| John C. Lungren M.D, John C Lungren, Jr. - Biography & Autobiography - 262 pages
...corpus.3 In a speech near the end of the war, Lincoln assessed the influence of "rebel sympathizers." "Under cover of 'Liberty of speech,' 'Liberty of the...and aiders and abettors of their cause in a thousand ways."4 Nine months into Nixon's presidency, antiwar protests were approaching proportions similar... | |
| Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 532 pages
...blindness of Democrats like Corning to Vallandigham's cynical appeal to civil liberties as a shield for "a most efficient corps of spies, informers, suppliers,...aiders and abettors of their cause in a thousand ways." Could not Corning see that "Ours is a case of rebellion," that "the Constitution is not, in its application,... | |
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