John Hunt Morgan Quotes
The Home Guards are required to come in at once and deliver up their arms, those who fail to do so will be regarded as enemies of the Government and treated accordingly.
Morgan, John Hunt. "Proclamation." The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, series 1, vol. 16, pt. 1, Government Printing Office, 1880-1901.
For the required Oath, see {623308} . There were several to the amnesty. These included graduates of West Point and the Naval Academy who had joined the rebellion, senior officers and officials of the Confederacy, those who were accused of war crimes and abusing Union prisoners of war, persons who went abroad to help the Confederacy, and Northerners who had gone South to aid the rebellion. Many scholars think that although Lincoln had expressed his desire to provide an amnesty after the war was over, he probably would have been more lenient than Johnson who exempted many on the Southern side—especially the leaders. Ironically, Johnson was a Southerner but was personally, morally outraged at taking up arms against the United States and in that sense was much more of a hawk than Lincoln and many of the radical Republicans even. However, he was an inveterate racist and resisted most of the attempts to implement equality during the Reconstruction. Many argue that but for Johnson, Reconstruction might have been much more successful. It was easy for Southerners to resist equal rights for Blacks when they knew that the President was also opposed to measures to produce equality.
The ultimatum was rejected, Cromwell’s forces took the town and massacred the defenders as well as many civilians. See {632366}.
This quotation shows that the dissent leading to the American Revolution did not emerge suddenly in 1776 after the Battle of Bunker Hill. Dissent, sedition and even violence was documented here in 1774. Salem at the time was the second largest port in the colony and the customs tax collectors—Loyalist Americans—were run out of Salem.
This was one of the several early unofficial Emancipations that was issued in the Civil War.
His refusal to explain the reasons for and the circumstances of the arrests drew much criticism from Democrats and the press. This was the precedent that Presidents have used ever since to not reveal the grounds for arrest and the circumstances thereof. George W. Bush aides specifically cited this when they refused the details of many of the arrests after the 9-11 attack.
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Before the 1968 election, President Johnson, and gotten the North Vietnam Communists to agree to Peace Talks with the U. S. and South Vietnam. Then Candidate Nixon thought that if the peace talks were ongoing and making progress, there would be more support for the Democrats and Nixon's opponent Hubert Humphrey. So Nixon secretly send a secret emissary to South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu telling him that he would not get a very good deal because President Nixon claimed that President Johnson was too eager to end the Vietnam war. He suggested that if Thieu boycotted the peace talks, then when Nixon was elected, he would guarantee a much better deal for South Vietnam and Thieu personally. President Thieu boycotted the peace talks and there could be no progress. However there is a Federal Law, the Logan Act, that makes it a felony for a private American citizen to conduct or interfere with foreign policy or negotiations with a foreign government. President Johnson found out about Nixon—s sabotage of the Peace Talks, called Nixon and threatened him with prosecution if he interfered further. LBJ had decided that with the left wing at odds with the U. S. Government over the Vietnam War, a prosecution of Nixon would cause the Right Wing to challenge the government also and the country didn—t need further polarization. He would do that only if Nixon did not heed the President—s warning. But when Nixon won the election and became President, he was terribly anxious that his pre-election crimes would be made public, and spent much of his time and staff effort trying to find out who knew about his politically self-serving felony and who might make his crime public. See {583264}.
He was writing on behalf of a VA nurse who had been accused of sedition for publicly criticizing the government. See {589454}.
The New Jersey Militia had mutinied and Washington dispatched Howe to put down the mutiny. Most Americans today do not think of George Washington as particularly blood thirsty, but when he was angered he was very tough. In this case ordering executions before the culprits were apprehended or tried or given a chance to explain themselves. What made matters worse for Washington was that there had been other mutinies of troops even in nearby Pennsylvania and America soldiers had plenty to be resentful about. They were ill fed, hardly clothed, and poorly armed. In addition they were often paid late. Washington himself had been the biggest complainer to Congress, but as much as he sympathized with the mutineers complaints, he would not tolerate a mutiny.
Warning to John Calhoun and other South Carolinians about the implications of their nullification of the Tariff Act of 1832:
A. B. Magil. Poem written upon the suicide of the Russian Poet, Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky, 1893-1930. The fact that a Marxist Russian Poet would commit suicide was not seen as the result of a mental problem like depression, but as a political act and a statement of dissatisfaction with 1930 Russia.
John H. Morgan was a Confederate general in the American Civil War.
