Identifier: abrahamlincol1479coff (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896 Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Sovereign Grand Lodge
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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^, am I not the court of appeal? Do you think I am going toliave injustice done Schenck ! Mr. President, allow me to say that before the appeal can be hearda soldiers reputation will be blasted by a packed court. /■
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EDWAKD EVERETT Come, now, Piatt, you and I are lawyers, and I know the meaningof the word packed. I dont want to hear it from your lips again.AVhat is the matter with the court V It is illegally organized by General Ilalleck. But General Hallecks act is mine. 888 LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Mr. President, I beg your pardon. The Kules and Regulationsdirect that in cases of this sort you shall select the court. You cannotdelegate that to a subordinate officer an) more than you can the par-doning power. Here is the article, said Piatt, opening the Eules andRegulations. That is a point. Do you know, Piatt, that I have been so busythat I never have read the Pules and Regulations V Give me the book,and I will read them to-night. Yes, Mr. President, but in the mean time General SchencR will beput under arrest for disobedience, and the mischief will be done. Thats so. Here, give me a pencil. The President tore off part of a blank sheet from the protest andwrote the following: All proceedings bef

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