Speech Of Hon Reverdy Johnson Of Maryland In Support Of The Resolutign Sic To Amend The Constitution So As To Abolish Slavery

Author : Reverdy Johnson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483037502
Total Pages : 28 pages
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Download or read book Speech of Hon. Reverdy Johnson, of Maryland, in Support of the Resolution to Amend the Constitution So as to Abolish Slavery written by Reverdy Johnson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-13 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Speech of Hon. Reverdy Johnson, of Maryland, in Support of the Resolution to Amend the Constitution So as to Abolish Slavery: Delivered in the Senate of the United States, April 5, 1864 I believe I speak advisedly when I say that, whatever may be their language, the court designed and affirmed no such general proposi tion. They held what, indeed, cannot be denied, because your legislation recognises its existence, and because, independent of that recognition, the fact is apparent that a state of war exists. That the insurrection, however, at the first it might have been arrested by the mere civil power; had culminated to a point which places it beyond that power or any other but the power of war. In saying this, how ever, the court referred only to the particular cases which were before them, and cases of like character, and to the particular ques tions presented by such cases. They relied upon belligerent rights growing out ofthe actual war, merely with the view to show that goods captured upon the high seas coming from the territorial limits of the rebellious States were to be considered under the prize law as prize of war; and, that the question, whether legal prize or not was to be determined by the principles of the prize law as a part of the law of nations. But in so ruling, in answer to the objection, that, although in one sense a war, it was a rebellion in which each citizen in the rebellious States' was guilty of treason against the United States they said that that was true, but that such parties were not the less to be esteemed enemies because they were traitors. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.