[POLITICS -- HABEUS CORPUS] -- [JACKSON, Andrew (1767-1845)]. Military Despotism! Arbitrary Arrest of a JudgeI! [New York]: P.W. Derham, [1863].

Visible 10 1/4 x 17 1/4 in. (some toning, small separations along old creases); matted and framed to 13 1/8 x 20 in. (not examined out of frame). Signed in type "A Piece of Hickory."

A broadside almost certainly published in 1863 in the context of President Lincoln's Habeus Corpus Suspension Act, signed into law on 3 March 1863. The two columns here recount the arrest of Judge Dominick A. Hall of New Orleans by General Andrew Jackson, a case in which habeus corpus is central. Judge Hall granted the writ of habeus corpus to E. Louis Louillier, then arrested and held by General Jackson. Jackson in turn arrested Judge Hall on charges of exciting mutiny in the occupied city of New Orleans. Although Hall was eventually released and Jackson was fined $1000, the broadside noted that in 1842, Congress reimbursed Jackson with interest. The broadside, in support of Jackson and Lincoln's Act, concludes: "Nine years after, this 'military despot,' who made the "arbitrary arrest," was elected President by the Democracy."

A variant edition without a publisher and a German-language edition are recorded. Additionally, the text is identical to a pamphlet issued by the Loyal Publication Society of New York in October 1863.

Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana, and Historical Documents

[POLITICS -- HABEUS CORPUS] -- [JACKSON, Andrew (1767-1845)]. Military Despotism! Arbitrary Arrest of a JudgeI! [New York]: P.W. Derham, [1863].