. American bastile. A history of the illegal arrests and imprisonment of American citizens during the late civil war . rt Warren ?Fort Lafayette ? Fort McHenry ? Will you make your owncomments ? Will you draw your own conclusions ? We havegiven you facts: what more do you want? Has the right oifree speech been restored to you? THEN SPEAK. Doyou think the liberties of the citizen, under our Constitutionand in our country, are as secure as they were, and seemedto be, half a century ago ? The Key op the Bastile ! What memories cluster around it! What sadness! Whatsorrows! Wliat of oppression does
. American bastile. A history of the illegal arrests and imprisonment of American citizens during the late civil war . rt Warren ?Fort Lafayette ? Fort McHenry ? Will you make your owncomments ? Will you draw your own conclusions ? We havegiven you facts: what more do you want? Has the right oifree speech been restored to you? THEN SPEAK. Doyou think the liberties of the citizen, under our Constitutionand in our country, are as secure as they were, and seemedto be, half a century ago ? The Key op the Bastile ! What memories cluster around it! What sadness! Whatsorrows! Wliat of oppression does it suggest ? What ofusurpation? What of a COi^STITUTIO:^ broken intofragments ? Will the PEOPLE now stop to consider ? Can we look tothem for redress ? Have our forefathers labored in vain, and do we still pleadin vain, for the protection of the rights and liberties of thecitizen under our Constitution ? Our Hope is in the People. A THOUSAND TEARS SCARCE SERVED TO FORM A StATE ;An HOUR MAY LAY IT IN THE DUST ; AND WHEN Can man its shattered splendor renovate, RECALL ITS VIRTUES BACK, AND VANQUISH TiME AND FaTE ?. TAC-SIMILE OF THE KEY OF THE BASTILE, PARIS APPENDIX. TTT^E here give a copy of so7ne of the Orders, Proclamations, ^ etc., issued by the President, or his Secretaries, in regardto the illegal arrests and imprisonment of citizens. It willbe seen, from these orders, that Mr. Lincoln was responsiblefor all the arcests made, whether by the. civil or militaryauthorities. A. On the 3d of December, 1861, an order, signed by SethC. Hawley, Chief Clerk of the Metropolitan Police Commis-sioners of New York, was read to the prisoners of state inFort Lafayette. He acted, as he stated, under orders of Seward, Secretary of State. The order ran as follows : I am instructed by the Secretary of State to inform you thatthe Department of State of the United States will not recognizeany one as an attorney for political prisoners, and will look withdistrust upon all applications fo
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