 ... American people will, by means of military arrests during the rebellion, lose the right of public discussion, the liberty of speech and the press, the law of evidence, trial by jury, and habeas corpus, throughout the indefinite peaceful future, which...  The History, Civil, Political and Military, of the Southern Rebellion: From ... - Page 521by Orville James Victor - 1861Full view - About this book
 | Illinois State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1918 - 536 pages
...corpus throughout the indefinite peaceful future which I trust lies before them, any more than I am able to believe that a man could contract so strong an appetite for emetics during the temporary illness as to persist in feeding upon them during the remainder of his healthful life."... | |
 | New Jersey State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1919 - 168 pages
...corpus, throughout the indefinite peaceful future which I trust lies before them, any more than I am able to believe that a man could contract so strong an...them during the remainder of his healthful life." While Mr. Lincoln thus recognized the necessity of exercising the war-powers to their fullest extent... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - History - 1977 - 292 pages
...throughout the indefinite peaceful future, which I trust lies before them, any more than I am able to believe that a man could contract so strong an...upon them during the remainder of his healthful life. One of the resolutions expresses the opinion of the meeting that arbitrary arrests will have the effect... | |
 | James M. McPherson - History - 1988 - 952 pages
...civil liberties in wartime would establish precedents fatal to liberty in peacetime "than I am able to believe that a man could contract so strong an...temporary illness, as to persist in feeding upon them through the remainder of his healthful life."17 Lincoln's two letters on civil liberties were published... | |
 | Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, Kathleen Hall Jamieson - History - 1990 - 285 pages
...corpus throughout the indefinite peaceful future which I trust lies before them, any more than I am able to believe that a man could contract so strong an...upon them during the remainder of his healthful life. (320-21) Lincoln's claim that his behavior was constitutional also was grounded in his view of his... | |
 | Gabor S. Boritt - History - 1992 - 273 pages
...them." He could not believe that, he said — once again the homely analogy — any more than he could believe that "a man could contract so strong an appetite...feeding upon them during the remainder of his healthful life."44 Once the crisis ended, the other two branches of government briskly reasserted themselves.... | |
 | David Herbert Donald - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 724 pages
...rebellion would be followed in the peaceful postwar future. This argument, he suggested, was like saying "that a man could contract so strong an appetite for...temporary illness, as to persist in feeding upon them through the remainder of his healthful life." Lincoln considered his letter to Corning the best state... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 208 pages
...Corpus, throughout the indefinite peaceful future which I trust lies before them, any more than I am able to believe that a man could contract so strong an...temporary illness, as to persist in feeding upon them through the remainder of his healthful life. Letter to Erastus Corning and Others, [June 12,] 1863,... | |
 | Kathy Sammis - History - 1997 - 132 pages
...by jury, and habeas corpus throughout the indefinite peaceful future . . . any more than I am able to believe that a man could contract so strong an appetite for emetics [agents that cause vomiting] curing temporary illness as to persist in feeding upon them during the... | |
 | Michael Kent Curtis - History - 2000 - 544 pages
...loss of "Public Discussion, the Liberty of Speech and the Press" in the peaceful future than he could "believe that a man could contract so strong an appetite...feeding upon them during the remainder of his healthful life."137 The limits of Lincoln's compelling metaphor appeared in the arrests of the critics of World... | |
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