. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . cising the exercise of arbitraryjjower. As a result of all these things taken together, Congresspassed an act, which was approved on ]\Iarch 3, 18()3, author-izing the President to suspend the writ of hahcds corpus when-ever in his judgment it should be necessary. The act furtherdirected that the Secretary of State and the Secretary of AVarmust furnish to the United States courts a list of politicalprisoners confined by their order, and that thereafter the judgesmust
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . cising the exercise of arbitraryjjower. As a result of all these things taken together, Congresspassed an act, which was approved on ]\Iarch 3, 18()3, author-izing the President to suspend the writ of hahcds corpus when-ever in his judgment it should be necessary. The act furtherdirected that the Secretary of State and the Secretary of AVarmust furnish to the United States courts a list of politicalprisoners confined by their order, and that thereafter the judgesmust discharge all jjrisoners against whom the grand jurywould find no indictment. This statute, however, as we shallsee, was not strictly observed, but was set at naught by theappointment of military conmiissions by army commanders. The most famous arrest of this kind iluring the war wasthat of Clement L. ^^allandigham, then a member of Con-gress from Ohio. General A. E. Burnside, in command ofthe Dejiartment of Ohio, issued, on April , 18G3, his GeneralOrder No. 38,declaring that the habit of declaring sympathies [2021 ^^.
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