 | 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... | |
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Government would, in great degree, be restrained by the same Constitution and law from arresting their progress. Their sympathizers pervaded all departments of the Government and nearly all communities of the people. From this material, under cover of... 
