A Narrative of Andersonville: Drawn from the Evidence Elicited on the Trial of Henry Wirz, the Jailer. With the Argument of Col. N.P. Chipman, Judge AdvocateHarper & Brothers, 1866 - 272 σελίδες |
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Adjutant aforesaid AMBROSE SPENCER America Andersonville Prison army August authority charge clothing Colonel Chandler Colonel Persons commandant condition confinement of prisoners conspiracy court crimes crowded cruelty custody dead line destitute diarrhoea died disease Duncan Dutch Republic evidence Federal prisoners feet filth gangrene Georgia given ground guard GUILTY hands Henry Wirz hospital Howell Cobb human hundred inclosure jailer Jefferson Davis JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY large number laws of war lying malice aforethought maliciously ment Military Commission month murder N. P. Chipman name is unknown nations number of prisoners officer oners passed patients President pris prison at Andersonville prison there located prisoners of war punishment rebel government rebellion Record Richmond says scurvy shelter sick so-called Confederate stockade stream suffering Sumter County supply surgeon taken and held testimony thing thousand tion treatment trial United W. S. Winder Wirz's wretched Yankee
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Σελίδα 262 - Thou shalt not smite them: wouldest thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow? set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.
Σελίδα 233 - On the contrary, if war be actually levied, that is, if a body of men be actually assembled for the purpose of effecting by force a treasonable purpose, all those who perform any part, however minute, or however remote from the scene of action, and who are actually leagued in the general conspiracy, are to be considered as traitors.
Σελίδα 169 - ... no person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on presentment or indictment of a grand jury.
Σελίδα 170 - It rests upon axioms as simple as they are universal ; the means ought to be proportioned to the end ; the persons, from whose agency the attainment of any end is expected, ought to possess the means by which it is to be attained.
Σελίδα 181 - The government which has a right to do an act, and has imposed on it the duty of performing that act, must, according to the dictates of reason, be allowed to select the means ; and those who contend that it may not select any appropriate means, that one particular mode of effecting the object is excepted, take upon themselves the burden of establishing that exception.
Σελίδα 169 - These powers ought to exist without limitation, because it is impossible to foresee or define the extent and variety of national exigencies, or the correspondent extent and variety of the means which may be necessary to satisfy them. The circumstances that endanger the safety of nations are infinite, and for this reason no constitutional shackles can wisely be imposed on the power to which the care of it is committed.
Σελίδα 170 - In the authority given to Congress by the Constitution of the United States to declare war, all the powers incident to war are by necessary implication conferred upon the government of the United States.
Σελίδα 147 - Stevenson, and others unknown, to injure the health and destroy the lives of soldiers in the military service of the United States, then held and being prisoners of war within the lines of the so-called Confederate States and in the military prisons thereof, to the end that the armies of the United States might be weakened and impaired, in violation of the laws and customs of war.