The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-06-28

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- tHampshire passed "a cot ID TIT
IN. VI IL psrsoas resident within tls
No. 10 either levied war or aided the
49,. Rin carrying on war against the
- GAsss, to be guilty Of treason,
~, 1orfeiting their goods and chattels to
I'D ma Of the State.
= In Conpecticut it was made treason
l1niahAble with death, to aid or comfort
1aesaemy.
Z 4 I. la6sschusetts, in l777, declared all
! - abiding within that State and de-
= ~ protection from its lrWs, 10 owe
lance TO il, and that all such persons,
ilty Of levying war, or eonspiring to
~ var, against any Of the United States.
leuld suffer the psins Of death. II fur
- enacted that any concealment Of
treason should forfeit all the goods and
( the offender to the use of the
cakes, intendee'~ life. '
party. 'aath and theentire
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PIc-NIc.-The Sabbath schOause.
First Baptist Church leave at u enacted
this morning on pic MIC exe- n tne STATE
those attending be at the K a am;l., - P;ah
SCHOOL ExHIBIT1or declared forfsi,sd
of Prof. Jamieson'sah.
bition 1t Chasharsed laws authorizing hel
which are invif remove certain disafected
in the city. as persons " from the limits
also, an act to remove .'neu
~M--s" to the enemy's lines upor
tn,.:-- ~-.ssi to take the oath of allegiance
in 1779, an act for the forfeiture
Tug. sale OF the estates of persons VIII
90 adhered to the enemies Of the United
States. Also an act for the banishmen
ofaliteries.
New Jersey, in l776, passed \ an &C
to punish traitors and disaffected per
sons" BY death or Imprisonment, accord
ing 70 the nature Of the offense, and for
letting their property to the State.
Maryland passed. in 1777, "an act t
punish certain crimes, and to prevent ID
growth of toryism." which enscte ed tha
all persons proved to have adhered to th
enemy should be adjudged guilty of trea
son, and should suffer death without ben
eht of clergy, and forfeit oil their estate
In Delaware, BY an act passed in IT'S
the real and personal estate of all alder
and abettors of the enemy, was declare
absolutely forfeited.
Virginia. in i776, defined by statut
what should be treason in that State, AM
decreed, for all convicted of levying va
against the Commonwealth, or of adherin
to Its enemies, the punishment of dealt
without the benefit of clergy, end forfeit
ure of all lands and chattels to thu Com
monwealth.
In North Carolina, the law OF 1T77 de
clared all persons in the limits Of ths
State to owe allegiance to it, and ad
gNeSS~ suo pcudleicb VI Q6dtH ana tc0006
cation to all such persons as aided tn
enemy.
Georgia, 10 1878, forfeited and con6e
Gated the estates of multitude of person
who had been guilty Of incivism
South Carolina, the modern hot.bed Q
secession, passed, early in 1916, ga
Act to prevent sedition, and punish in
surgents and disturbers of the publ
peace" in which capital punishment wa
denounced against all taking up arms O
aiding or abstting the foreign enemy.
also declared that all lands and tensnents
goods and chattels of such persons, shout
be sold within one month and the proceed
deposited in the Colony Treasury 6
Charleston.
Such is the record of the legislation q
the Gold thirteen" agaips. traitors an
domestic enemies. 1t is consisten
testimony, to the necessity which ever
civil war has imposed upon . Govern
ment.
The Late Presidents View ON Ncgr
suffrage.
The most Important expression ofPres