United States v. Anderson
Supreme Court of the United States
Congress, by act of July 13th, 1861,* passed soon aftei the outbreak of the late rebellion, enacted that it might be lawful for the President, by proclamation, to declare that the inhabitants of any State or part of a State where such insurrection was existing were in a state of such insurrection, and that thereupon (with a proviso that the President might, to a-limited extent and under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, license it) all “…
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Congress, by act of July 13th, 1861,* passed soon aftei the outbreak of the late rebellion, enacted that it might be lawful for the President, by proclamation, to declare that the inhabitants of any State or part of a State where such insurrection was existing were in a state of such insurrection, and that thereupon (with a proviso that the President might, to a-limited extent and under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, license it) all “ commercial intercourse by and between the same and citizens thereof, and citizens of the rest of the United States, should…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Dayis
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 4th section of the act of June 25th, 1868.
The act of March 12th, 1863, in one particular, inaugurated a policy different from that which induced the passage of other measures rendered necessary by the obstinacy and magnitude of the resistance to the supremacy of the National authority. To overcome this resistance, and to carry on the war…
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