Author: John JolliffePublisher:
ISBN: 9781331065968
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Excerpt from In the Matter of George Gordon's Petition for Pardon After nearly all of the following argument was in type, and while the last pages of it were in the hands of the printer, the telegraph brought the pleasant news that the President had pardoned Rev. George Gordon. It is to be regretted that he did not place his pardon upon the ground that the acts of Congress in question are null; but still, an honest, upright man has been released from an imprisonment which shows what terrible inroads the system of slaveholding has made upon the people of the United States; so that, even in Northern Ohio, a citizen has been imprisoned, for his faithfulness to the Constitution, - to Liberty, - and to God. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
