Volume 2 / Part 4 — CHAPTER XXXII.

Attempts of the United States Government to overthrow States.— Military Governor of Tennessee appointed.—Object.—Arrests and Imprisonments.—Measures attempted.—Oath required of Voters.—A Convention to amend the State Constitution.—Results.—Attempt in Louisiana.—Martial Law.—Barbarities inflicted.—Invitation of Plantations.—Order of General Butler, No. 28.—Execution of Mumford.—Judicial System set up.—Civil Affairs to be administered by Military Authority.—Order of President Lincoln for a Provisional Court.—A Military Court sustained by the Army.—Words of the Constitution.—"Necessity," the reason given for the Power to create the Court.—This Doctrine fatal to the Constitution; involves its Subversion.—Cause of our Withdrawal from the Union.—Fundamental Principles unchanged by Force.—The Contest is not over; the Strife not ended.—When the War closed, who were the Victors?—Let the Verdict of Mankind decide.