. American bastile. A history of the illegal arrests and imprisionment of American citizens in the northern and border states ... during the late civil war. By John A. Marshall ... Illustrated with ... steel engravings by John A. O'Neill . g the night, alock-up for thieves, burglars, and pickpockets. The nextday he was brought before the United States Court, GeorgeA. Coffey, Esq., acting as counsel for the Government; buthe not having received any instructions from the Depart-ment at Washington, requested the case might be continueduntil the following day. This was granted, and Mr. Cookwas hel
. American bastile. A history of the illegal arrests and imprisionment of American citizens in the northern and border states ... during the late civil war. By John A. Marshall ... Illustrated with ... steel engravings by John A. O'Neill . g the night, alock-up for thieves, burglars, and pickpockets. The nextday he was brought before the United States Court, GeorgeA. Coffey, Esq., acting as counsel for the Government; buthe not having received any instructions from the Depart-ment at Washington, requested the case might be continueduntil the following day. This was granted, and Mr. Cookwas held in three thousand dollars bail for his appearance. On the succeeding day, Mr. Cook made his appearance inoourt with his counsel, Messrs. George M. Wharton, CharlesIngersoll, and John A. Marshall, who had been retained forthe prisoner, in addition to Mr. Brown. On his secondappearance, the Judge Advocate, Mr. John C. Knox, sur-prised the Court, and the anxious spectators, by the announce-ment that the Government had ordered the prisoners dis-charge. Thus ended this unjust attempt to injure and disgrace amost worthy citizen of Philadelphia, whose son at that time,was in the army, lighting for and protecting these miscreantsat -*- fe HON. GEORGE WILLIAM BROWN. HON. GEORGE WILLIAM BROWN, a distinguishedlawyer of Baltimore, was elected Mayor of that city,in the autumn of 18G0. For a number of years previously,the city had been entirely under the control of the KnowNothing party. After that party came into power, it so mismanaged publicaffairs that it fell largely into the minority; but, having theappointment of all the officers, including the judges of elec-tion and police force, it succeeded in carrying every electionby a system of organized fraud and violence at the polls,which, up to that time, was without a parallel in the historyof the country. This state of things led to the formation of the Reformparty. After a strenuous and determined, but ineffectualresistance at t
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