ОР HON. CLEMENT L. VALLANDIGHAM, BY A Military Commission : AND THE PROCEEDINGS UNDER HIS APPLICATION FOR A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE PUBLISHED BY RICKEY AND CARROLL, 73 WEST FOURTH STREET, (OPERA-HOUSE BUILDING,) CINCINNATI. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by RICKEY & CARROLL, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Ohio. STEREOTYPED AT THE FRANKLIN TYPE FOUNDRY, CINCINNATI, 0. 93123 PREFACE. IN issuing this Report of the Trial of the Hon. Clement L. Vallandigham, by a Military Commission, convened in Cincinnati by order of Major-General Burnside, for language in violation of General Order No. 38, used at Mount Vernon, Ohio, and of the proceedings before the Hon. H. H. Leavitt, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Ohio, under the application for a writ of Habeas Corpus, the publishers are influenced, in part, by the expressed desire of many members of the bar to have such publication made, but chiefly because the great principles involved in the investigation, and the ability and learning displayed in the arguments of counsel and the opinion of the Court, give the cases sufficient interest and importance to justify their preservation in the substantial form of a book. The military orders and the proceedings of the Military Commission are published with the consent of Major-General Burnside; while, through the courtesy of Brigadier-General Cox, the publishers have been enabled to verify their report by a careful comparison with the original record. The arguments of counsel and the opinion of the Court in the Habeas Corpus case have been prepared for the press by their respective authors. Thus the book obtains that authenticity which makes it perfectly reliable both in its historical and judicial aspects. RICKEY & CARROLL, |