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
Major General John A. Dix, commanding the compulsory Union Department of Department of Maryland and Pennsylvania, arrests ten secessionist Democrats (constitutionalists), the day after they were elected to the House of Delegates, of Maryland, to replace ten legislators who were arrested for their secessionist sympathies. This forces the legislature to adjourn as a quorum could not be formed.
NOTE: This is the only election in United States’ history, in which all candidates who won an election were thrown into jail.
[updated 2/2/2025]
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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.
Dean Sprague, Freedom Under Lincoln, (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1965), 29.
Abraham Lincoln and Maryland – Abraham Lincoln’s Classroom.mht
www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org/Library/newsletter.asp?ID=108&CRLI=156
Maryland and Secession
blueandgraytrail.com/event/Maryland_and_Secession
Maryland in the American Civil War – Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland_in_the_American_Civil_War
Habeas corpus in the United States – Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_corpus_in_the_United_States
Habeas Corpus Suspension Act (1863) – Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_Corpus_Suspension_Act_(1863)
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