. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... ckade; and on the third of May he putforth another proclamation ordering the regu-lar army of the United States to be increasedto sixty-four thousand seven hundred andforty-eight men, and the navy to eighteenthousand seamen. On the tenth of May he ADMINISTRATION OF ABRAHAM LtNCOLN. ^n fssued a fourth proclamation, suspending theVrit oi habeas corpus in certain localities, andauthority to suspend this privilege was con-ferred upon the commanders of military d
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... ckade; and on the third of May he putforth another proclamation ordering the regu-lar army of the United States to be increasedto sixty-four thousand seven hundred andforty-eight men, and the navy to eighteenthousand seamen. On the tenth of May he ADMINISTRATION OF ABRAHAM LtNCOLN. ^n fssued a fourth proclamation, suspending theVrit oi habeas corpus in certain localities, andauthority to suspend this privilege was con-ferred upon the commanders of military de-/partments soon afterward. Under the instructions of the governmentthese commanders now proceeded to arrestgreat numbers of persons in various parts ofthe country who were suspected of sympa- government paid no attention to this deci-sion, and held the prisoner in little later the Legislature of Maryland,which was strongly Southern in its sympa-thies, was prevented from meeting by thesudden arrest and imprisonment of a largenumber of its members by order of thesecretary of war. On the fourth of July, 1861, Congress*. FORT MOULTRIE, CHARLESTON HARBOR. thizing with the South. They were impris-oned at the military posts, and were deniedtrial by the civil courts: John Merryman, acitizen of Maryland, was one of the personsso arrested. His friends applied for redressto the Chief Justice of the United States, whoheld the suspension of the habeas corpus actby the President to be unconstitutional, andordered the discharge of the prisoner. The43 convened in extra session at Washington, inaccordance with the Presidents proclamation. This body proceeded to give to thegovernment a prompt and effectual were introduced to legalize theextraordinary acts of the President in settingaside the writ of habeas corpus, in orderingthe arbitrary arrest and confinement of citi-zens, and in assuming certain other powers 674 THE CIVIL WAR. which belonged to Congress. Co
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