Interesting Debate: Reception of Gov. Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, and Ex.-Gov. Wright, of Indiana, at the State Capitol of Pennsylvania; Full Proceedings in the Senate (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Your competitor went before the people 111 1861, and I heard him denounce as traitors those who, found fault with the President for 'arbitrary arrests.' He said in words; Were I' Mr. Lincoln, I would not hunt musty law books for a precedent to suspend the writ of habeas corpus, but 1 would suspend the writ and the traitors too.'

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