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First, Lincoln decides who is rebel
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An Act in addition to "An Act further to provide for the Collection of Duties on Imports, and for other Purposes," approved July 13th, 1861, A.D.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the power of the President to declare inhabitants of any State, or any part thereof, in a state of insurrection, as provided in the fifth section of the act to which this is an addition, shall extend to and include the inhabitants of any State, or part thereof, where such insurrection against the United States shall be found by the President at any time to exist. ---Approved, July 31, 1861.
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then, put to good use this fangled power---
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Proclamation of September 24, 1862.
"Whereas: it has become necessary to call into service not only volunteers, but also a portion of the militia of the States, by draft, in order to suppress the insurrection existing in the United States, and disloyal persons are not adequately restrained by the ordinary process of law from hindering this measure, and from giving aid and comfort, in various ways, to the insurrection:
" Now, therefore, be it ordered :
" 1. That, during the existing insurrection, and as a necessary measure for suppressing the same, all rebels and insurgents, their aiders and abettors, within the United States, and all persons discouraging volunteer enlistments, resisting militia drafts, or guilty of any disloyal practice, affording aid and comfort to the rebels
against the authority of the United States, shall be subject to martial law, and liable to trial and punishment by court-martial or military commission.
"2. That the writ of habeas corpus is suspended in respect to all persons arrested, or who are now, or hereafter during the rebellion shall be, imprisoned in any fort, camp, arsenal, military prison, or other place of confinement, by any military authority, or by sentence of any court-martial or military commission.
" In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
"Done at the City of Washington, this twenty-fourth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, and of the independence of the United States the eighty-seventh."
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signed by
Abraham Lincoln and William Seward
First, Lincoln decides who is rebel
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An Act in addition to "An Act further to provide for the Collection of Duties on Imports, and for other Purposes," approved July 13th, 1861, A.D.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the power of the President to declare inhabitants of any State, or any part thereof, in a state of insurrection, as provided in the fifth section of the act to which this is an addition, shall extend to and include the inhabitants of any State, or part thereof, where such insurrection against the United States shall be found by the President at any time to exist. ---Approved, July 31, 1861.
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then, put to good use this fangled power---
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Proclamation of September 24, 1862.
"Whereas: it has become necessary to call into service not only volunteers, but also a portion of the militia of the States, by draft, in order to suppress the insurrection existing in the United States, and disloyal persons are not adequately restrained by the ordinary process of law from hindering this measure, and from giving aid and comfort, in various ways, to the insurrection:
" Now, therefore, be it ordered :
" 1. That, during the existing insurrection, and as a necessary measure for suppressing the same, all rebels and insurgents, their aiders and abettors, within the United States, and all persons discouraging volunteer enlistments, resisting militia drafts, or guilty of any disloyal practice, affording aid and comfort to the rebels
against the authority of the United States, shall be subject to martial law, and liable to trial and punishment by court-martial or military commission.
"2. That the writ of habeas corpus is suspended in respect to all persons arrested, or who are now, or hereafter during the rebellion shall be, imprisoned in any fort, camp, arsenal, military prison, or other place of confinement, by any military authority, or by sentence of any court-martial or military commission.
" In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
"Done at the City of Washington, this twenty-fourth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, and of the independence of the United States the eighty-seventh."
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signed by
Abraham Lincoln and William Seward
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