A Military Genius: Life of Anna Ella Carroll, of Maryland ("the Great Unrecognized Member of Lincoln's Cabinet")Judd & Detweiler, 1894 |
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A Military Genius: Life of Anna Ella Carroll of Maryland Sarah Ellen Blackwell Visualização parcial - 1891 |
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A. E. CARROLL action actual service alien enemies allegiance American Anna Ella Carroll arms arrest assume belligerent bill bill of attainder Breckinridge called Carroll's citizens civil authority claim clause command Commander-in-Chief committee Confederate confiscation Congress conspirators convention courts crime Crittenden compromise declare duty erty executive exercise fact Federal compact foreign Government granted habeas corpus Hence hostility imprisoned insurrection insurrectionary force judge judicial justified law of nations laws of war letter liberty Lincoln martial law Maryland memorial ment military force military power militia Miss Carroll Mississippi necessarily never opinion party persons political postliminium present President prisoners protection public enemy public safety punish question Quitman rebellion or invasion rebels resist Reverdy Johnson says Scott seceded secession Secessionists Senator slave South Carolina Southern sovereign sovereignty Stanton stitution suppress supreme suspend the writ Tennessee river territory tion traitors treason Union United vested Washington writ of habeas
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Página 70 - For legislature, as was before observed, is the greatest act of superiority that can be exercised by one being over another. Wherefore it is requisite to the very essence of a law, that it be made by the supreme power. Sovereignty and legislature are indeed convertible terms; one cannot subsist without the other.
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Página 54 - Those two parties, therefore, must necessarily be considered as constituting, at least for a time, two separate bodies, two distinct societies. Having no common superior to judge between them, they stand in precisely the same predicament as two nations who engage in a contest and have recourse to arms.
Página 95 - As treason may be committed against the United States, the authority of the United States ought to be enabled to punish it. But as new-fangled and artificial treasons have been the great engines by which violent factions, the natural offspring of free government, have usually wreaked their alternate malignity on each other...
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