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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 24 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: February 28, 1865., [Electronic resource] 22 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 20 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 10 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 10 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 8 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore) 8 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 4 0 Browse Search
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison 4 0 Browse Search
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2 4 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: June 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], Gen. Cadwallader. (search)
nt of confidence in each other, increase our embarrassments."#x2014; as if the venerable and upright magistrate whom he was addressing, had any other object at heart than the vindication of the Constitution and the Laws, whose chief minister he is, or was seeking to "embarrass" the operation of either! The New York Tribune applauds Gen. Cadwallader for this insult to the Chief Justice, and characterizes it as a "stinging rebuke," which "would penetrate a less hardened bosom than that of Roger B. Taney!" But it is not the manner of the deed which constitutes the sum of Cadwallader's infamy. The assumption to suspend the writ of habeas corpus at his own discretion, or by virtue of instructions received from the President, in violation of the Constitution, is, without exception or qualification, the greatest outrage that has been, or can be, inflicted upon the rights of a citizen. Apart from the injury done to Mr. Merryman, who is thus illegally held and imprisoned, a fatal blow has be