Download or read book An Undelivered Speech on Executive Arrests (Classic Reprint) written by Charles Ingersoll and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Undelivered Speech on Executive Arrests Department, for, settlement and payment. Thus the habeas corpus is formally suspended; its suspension war rants the arrest of the citizen, not merely by great ministers of State, but at the discretion of the police, including vil lage constables, in, all parts of the country, who are en couraged to spy into the affairs of their neighbors, and should they deem their speech, act, or writing disloyal, to arrest and carry them to Washington for trial by Military Commission. From the 8th of August to the 24th of September the country remained under the order of the War Department of the first of those dates, but on the 24th September the wheel of power makes a turn more, the President himself appears in a proclamation, by which ordinary processes of law are declared to be insuficient to the present exigencies of Executive authority, and he orders a suspension of the habeas corpus, and declares martial law. When the Score tary of War, saying he suspended, or somebody for him had suspended, the habeas corpus, arrests a citizen and hands him over to be tried by a military commission, that is martial law; but he did not call it so. The President gives things their names. He resolves all doubt, and proclaims the habeas corpus act suspended. He does not say that those guilty of disloyal practices shall be arrested and tried before a military commission and leave the rest to implica tion. He says they shall be subject to martial law, and closes the chapter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.