He has dissolved Representative Houses … for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
—- unanimous Declaration (of Independence), Paragraph 3, Clause 6
Brigadier General Benjamin F. Butler, commanding the Massachusetts Militia, declares martial law in Baltimore, Maryland. Butler arrests pro-Confederate (constitutionalist) Mayor George William Brown; Democratic (constitutionalist) Representative Henry May, of Maryland; the entire City Council and Police Commission; and twenty members of the Maryland legislature.
NOTES:
- This order also confiscated muskets, rifles and sidearms—in violation of Article II of Amendment—that were needed by sovereign State Citizens for the defense of their State.
- It is estimated that between 15,000 and 38,000 State sovereign Citizens were imprisoned without due process by Lincoln’s suspension of Habeas Corpus.
[restored 3/19/2022]
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References:
Thomas DiLorenzo, The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War, (Roseville, California: Prima, 2002), 138-39.
James Ostrowski, “Was the Union Army’s Invasion of the Confederate States a Lawful Act? An Analysis of President Lincoln’s Legal Arguments Against Secession,”Secession, State and Liberty, David Gordon, ed., (New Brunswick, New Jersey and London: Transaction, 1998), 161.
Paul Krugman’s ‘Civil War’ Fantasies by Thomas J. DiLorenzo
www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo204.html
The American Gulag by Thomas J. DiLorenzo
www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo79.html
Chronology Of The American Civil War
civilwarhome.com/timeline.htm
George William Brown – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_William_Brown
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