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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (115072)	8/13/2008 10:09:33 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

who writes history? the winners or losers? Was Lincoln a tyrant ?

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (115072)	8/13/2008 10:18:04 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

On April 27, President Lincoln had written General Scott, this time to authorize suspension of habeas corpus in Maryland: ?You are engaged in repressing an insurrection against the laws of the United States. If at any point on or in the vicinity of the [any] military line, which is now [or which shall be] used between the City Philadelphia and the City of Washington, via Perryville, Annapolis City, and Annapolis Junction, you find resistance which renders it necessary to suspend the writ of Habeas Corpus for the public safety, you, personally or through the officer in command at the point where the [at which] resistance occurs, are authorized to suspend that writ.? 48