Speech of Hon Lyman Trumbull of Illinois On the Freedmens Bureau Veto Mess
Speech of Hon Lyman Trumbull of Illinois On the Freedmens Bureau Veto Mess
Lyman Trumbull
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And yet we are ;, M that this i> taking property contrary to the Constitution of the United States! It has been practiced all through the war. And it is a necessity of war. Now. Sir, I insist that these persons went rightfully apon these abandoned lands; and being there they are entitled to protection for a reasonable time. The military authority is not yet withdrawn from Georgia. They are right- fullv there now. The faith of this nation, through its commanding general in that department and th...e approbation of 'he late President of the United States, is committed to these people who went, upon tic-. ' lands, set up their little homes, put in a crop, and supported themselves and relieved the Treasury. The faith of the nation is pledged to them in writing to protect them in this possession so long as the military jurisdiction continues; and that is not yet ended; and upon every principle of equity and justice they are entitled to be protected even beyond 'hat time on the familiar principle that where a person enters upon an estate rightfully, as these people did, and is to hold it for an uncertain period, depending, if yon please, upon 'he life of another, he cannot be turned oil' the m 'mem that other die-, ; but he is entitled to hold the possession until he -hall have bad a reasonable time to pather his crops and remove the improvement- which he may have put upon the place.
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