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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 44: (search)
er, that if such prisoners wish to make any communication to the Government, they are at liberty to make it directly to the State Department. Seth C. Hawley. Space will not permit me further to notice the instances of this immense class of cases. In almost every Northern state the victims of this violence were to be found. That there was no just cause for these invasions of the rights of the states, and of the citizens, was demonstrated in the most decisive manner. At this time (November 4, 1862) the friends of the administration of the United States government were decisively defeated at the elections. On November 22d ensuing, the War Department issued an order releasing all except prisoners of war. The order was muffled up in a phraseology suited to hide from the observation of the people that the result of the elections had stricken home to the sensibilities of the usurpers. It said: Ordered—1. That all persons now in military custody, who have been arrested for disco