The life and public services of Abraham Lincoln ... together with his state papers, including his speeches, addresses, messages, letters, and proclamations, and the closing scenes connected with his life and death. By Henry J. Raymond. To which are added anecdotes and personal reminiscences of President Lincoln, by Frank B. Carpenter.

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refuse to obey a writ of habeas corpus in case of such
arrests. The Attorney General discussed the subject at
considerable length, and reached a conclusion favorable
to the action of the Government. From that time forward the Government exerted, with vigor and energy, all
the power thus placed in its hands to prevent the rebellion from receiving aid from those in sympathy with its
objects in the Northern States. A large number of
persons, believed to be in complicity with the insurgents,
were placed in arrest, but were released upon taking an
oath of allegiance to the United States Baltimore continued for some time to be the head-quarters of conspiracies and movements of various kinds in aid of the rebellion, and the arrests were consequently more numerous
there than elsewhert: Indeed, very strenuous efforts
were nade throughout the summer to induce some action
on the part of the legislature which wuald place the State
in alliance with the Rebel Confederacy, and it was confidently believed that an ordinance looking to this end
would be passed at the extra session which was convened
for the 17th of September; but on the 16th, nine secession
members of the, House of Delegates, with the officers of
both houses, were arrested by General McClellan, then
in command of the army, who expressed his full approbation of the proceedings, and the session was not held.
The President at the time gave the following statement
of his views in regard to these arrests:
The public safety renders it necessary that the grounds of these arrests
should at present be withheld, but at the proper time they will be made
public. Of one thing the people of Maryland may rest assured, that no
arrest lIas been made, or will be made, not based on substantial and unmistakable complicity with those in armed rebellion against the Government of the United States. In no case has an arrest been made on mere
suspicion, or through personal or partisan animosities; but in all cases
the Government is in possession of tangible and unmistakable evidence,
which will, when made public, be satisfactory to every loyal citizen.
Arrests continued to be made under authority of the
State Department, not without complaint, certainly, from
large numbers of the people, but with the general acqui