Anderson v. United States

Mr.' Justice Davis

delivered the opinion of the court:

Whether the positions taken by the learned counsel of the United States in the court below, and maintained in this court also, are well taken or not, depends on the construction to be given the act concerning abandoned and captured property and the fourth section of the act of June 25, 1868.

The act of March 12, 1863, in one particular, inaugurated a policy different from that which induced the passage of other *123measures rendered necessary by tbe obstinacy and magnitude of the resistance to the supremacy of the National authority. To overcome…