 | Edward McPherson - Reconstruction - 1871 - 678 pages
...Besides, the policy of military rule over a conquered territory would have implied that the States whose inhabitants may have taken part in the rebellion...exist. But the true theory is, that all pretended acte of secession wore, from the beginning, null and void. The States cannot commit treason, nor screen... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Freed persons - 1871 - 670 pages
...inhabitants, ceased to exist. But the true theory is, that all pretended acte of secession wore, f£om_the individ- I ual citizens who may have committed treason, any more than they could make valid treaties... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Reconstruction - 1875 - 664 pages
...Besides, the policy of military rule over a conquered territory would have implied that the States whose inhabitants may have taken part in the rebellion...who may have committed treason, any more than they could make .valid treaties or engage in lawful commerce with any foreign p07rer. The States attempting... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Reconstruction - 1880 - 662 pages
...policv of military rule over a conquered territory would have implied that the btates whose inhabitant« may have taken part in the rebellion had, by the act...inhabitants, ceased to exist. But the true theory №. that all pretended acts of secession wore, from the beginning, null and void. The Statei cannot... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) - 1880 - 670 pages
...tUe -petíey— of.military rule over a conquered territai^-Luuiuld bave Tmplîé3"~that the otates whose, inhabitants may have taken part in the rebellion had, by the act of those uiuauuauts, ceased to exist. But tho true theory if-, that all pretended acts of secession were, ^... | |
 | Isaac E. Adams - Lawyers - 1886 - 840 pages
...continuance of military rule over the seceded States, that such policy would have 'implied that the States whose inhabitants may have taken part in the rebellion...treason nor screen the individual citizens who may have commited treason any more than they can make valid treaties or engage in lawful commerce with any foreign... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1888 - 648 pages
...Besides, the policy of military rule over a conquered territory would have implied that the States whose inhabitants may have taken part in the Rebellion...were, from the beginning, null and void. The States can not commit treason, nor screen the individual citizens who may have committed treason, any more... | |
 | James Harrison Kennedy - Presidents - 1888 - 694 pages
...have taken part in the rebellion have, by the act of those inhabitants, ceased to exist ? Whereas, the true theory is, that all pretended acts of secession were from the beginning null and void." He then briefly explained how he had proceeded in the appointment of provisional governors, the calling... | |
 | Edmund Gibson Ross - 1896 - 200 pages
...loyal. * * * The policy of military rule over conquered territory would have implied that the States whose inhabitants may have taken part in the rebellion...by the act of those inhabitants, ceased to exist. I!ut the true theory is, that all pretended acts of secession were, from the beginning, mill mid void.... | |
 | Social sciences - 1896 - 566 pages
...Besides, the policy of military rule over/ a conquered territory would have implied that the Slates! whose inhabitants may have taken part in the rebellion, had/ by the act of those inhabitants, ceasecJ^to^jRxjst. But the true theory is, that all pretended acts of secessioruKer.e, fronj the beginning,... | |
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But the true theory is, that all pretended acts of secession were, from the beginning, null and void. The States can not commit treason, nor screen the individual citizens who may have committed treason, any more than they can make valid treaties, or... 
