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" My Lord, I can touch a bell on my right hand and order the arrest of a citizen of Ohio. I can touch a bell again, and order the imprisonment of a citizen of New -York ; and no power on earth, except that of the President, can release them. Can the Queen... "
Seventy-five Years in Old Virginia: With Some Account of the Life of the ... - Page 186
by John Herbert Claiborne - 1904 - 360 pages
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The Rebellion Record: June '63-Nov. '63

Frank Moore - United States - 1864 - 868 pages
...: " I can touch a bell on my right hand and order the arrest of a citizen of Ohio. I can touch the bell again and order the imprisonment of a citizen'...President can release them. Can the Queen of England, in her dominions, do as much ?" This is the very language of a perfect despotism, and we learn from...
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Letters on the American Republic, Or, Common Fallacies and ..., Volume 4

Joshua Rhodes Balme - Freed persons - 1863 - 308 pages
...touch a bell on my right hand, and order the arrest of a citizen of Ohio ; I can touch another bell, and order the imprisonment of a citizen of New York, and no power on earth, except that of the President, can release them. Can the Queen of England do so much?" Although President...
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To All Whom it May Concern: The Conspiracy of Leading Men of the Republican ...

Thomas Jefferson Miles - Campaign literature - 1864 - 44 pages
...Lord, I can touch a bell on my right hand, and order the arrest of a citizen of Ohio; I can touch the bell again, and order the imprisonment of a citizen of New York ; and no power on earth, except that of the President, can release them. Can the Queen of England do so much?" I wonder if it...
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Logic of History: Five Hundred Political Texts: Being Concentrated Extracts ...

Stephen D. Carpenter - Antislavery movements - 1864 - 360 pages
...Washington: "I can touch a bell on my right hand and order the arrest of a citizen of Ohio. I can touch the bell again, and order the imprisonment of a citizen of New York, and no power on earth Imt that of the President can release them, Can the Queen of England, in her dominions, do as much?...
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The Washington Despotism Dissected in Articles from the Metropolitan Record

Metropolitan Record, New York - United States - 1864 - 136 pages
...lord, I can touch. a bell on my right hand and order the arrest of a citizen in Ohio. I can tonch the bell again and order the imprisonment of a citizen of New York ; and no power on earth biit that of the President can release them. Can the Queen of England in her dominions do as much ?...
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The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates ...

Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1866 - 758 pages
...: * I can touch a bell on my right hand and order the arrest of a citizen of Ohio. I can touch the bell again and order the imprisonment of a citizen...President can release them. Can the Queen of England, in her dominions, do as much ? ' This is the very language of a perfect despotism, and we learn from...
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The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates ...

Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1867 - 776 pages
...: ' I can touch a bell on my right hand and order the arrest of a citizen of Ohio. I 3an touch the bell again and order the imprisonment of a citizen...President can release them. Can the Queen of England, in her dominions, do as much ? ' This is the very language of a perfect despotism, and we learn from...
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American Bastile: A History of the Illegal Arrests and Imprisonment of ...

John A. Marshall - Martial law - 1869 - 754 pages
...Minister of England? In conversation with Lord Lyons, Mr. Seward said, "My lord, Jean touch a bell on nay right hand, and order the arrest of a citizen of Ohio...of a citizen of New York ; and no power on earth, except that of the President, can release them. Can the Queen of England do so much ? " The Earl of...
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American Bastile: A History of the Illegal Arrests and Imprisonment of ...

John A. Marshall - History - 1881 - 836 pages
...said, " My lord, Jean touch a bell on my right hand, and order the arrest of a citizen of Ohio; lean touch a bell again, and order the imprisonment of a citizen of New York ; and no power- on earth, except that of the President, can release tftem. Can the Queen of England do so much ? " The Earl of...
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Union-disunion-reunion: Three Decades of Federal Legislation. 1855 to 1885

Samuel Sullivan Cox - Reconstruction - 1885 - 774 pages
...its legend plain. On the other side is the little bell of which Mr. Secretary Seward vaunted when he said to Lord Lyons, the British Minister, " My Lord,...of a citizen of New -York ; and no power on earth, except that of the President, can release them. Can the Queen of England do as much ? " Then follows...
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