Correspondence Between S. Teackle Wallis, of Baltimore
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Excerpt from Correspondence Between S. Teackle Wallis, of Baltimore: And the Hon. John Sherman, of the U. S, Senate, Concerning the Arrest of Members of the Maryland Legislature, and the Mayor and Police Commissioners of Baltimore, in 1861 Hon. John Sherman, United States Senate: Sir: - In the report of proceedings of the Senate on the 9th instant, in the debate on the resolution of Senator Saulsbury, my attention has been called to the following paragraph: "He (Mr. Sherman, of Ohio) believed, however, that the President had power to make arrests without the forms of law. In the case of Dr. Bachelder and the members of the Maryland Legislature, who were about to carry their State out of the Union, he thought the President was justified in making the arrests." I was a member of the Maryland Legislature in 1861, and was arrested at midnight, at my dwelling, in the city of Baltimore, about the middle of September, in that year, from which time until the 27th of November, 1862, I was confined in one or other of the fortresses of the United States which have been appropriated by Mr. Lincoln to the uses of State prisons. have never, at any time, been informed of the grounds upon which I was arrested, and I know positively nothing whatever in regard to them, at this moment, except what I have seen stated, from time to time, in the newspapers. The commission, consisting of Messrs. Dix and Pierrepoint, which was created by the Secretary of War for the examination of the cases of prisoners arrested and confined like myself, held a session at Fort Warren in May, 1862, but I was not vouchsafed any communication as to the charges against me, or any opportunity of being heard in my own defence, although the War Department had been officially notified some time before by Colonel Dimick, upon the report of my physician, that my health was seriously affected by my confinement. The commissioners, in fact, took no notice whatever of my existence. Counsel I was not permitted to employ, for as early as the 28th of November, 1861, the United States Marshal at Boston officially visited Fort Warren for the purpose of communicating to my fellow-prisoners and myself an order from Mr. Seward, the Secretary of State, announcing that no one would be recognized by his department (which then had charge of us) as attorney of any State prisoner, and that the employment of counsel by any of us would be regarded by him as a sufficient reason for the prolongation of our imprisonment. On the 27th of November ultimo, as I have said, I was released from Fort Warren, with out conditions or explanations of any sort. The authority for my discharge as, I suppose, the authority for my arrest was a telegram. Under these circumstances I am sure you will recognize it as no more than reasonable, that I should take some interest in not being misrepresented, after having been for so long arbitrarily and cruelly dealt with in my person. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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