n the undoubted spirit of the prohibition which suspends his remedy while leaving his claim to remain untouched and liable to be revived and recovered after hostilities are ended.
Of course this view is based upon the concession (by demurring to the answer, that the facts are correctly stated by the defendants.
There is a further ground for holding the plaintiff within the real disability to sue in our courts, which is intended to be arserted by this answer.
By act of Congress, passed July 15, 1861, the President of the U. States was authorized to declare by proclamation, any State or States "in insurrection against the United States," under certain circumstances, and that whenever he so declared, "thereupon all commercial intercourse by and between the same and the citizens thereof and the citizens of the rest of the United States shall cease, and be unlawful so long as such condition of hostility shall continue." In pursuance of this act, the President, by proclamation, declared t
