...question is nevertheless good and passed a title to Mrs. Roberts. The act of congress of July 17th, 1862, "to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion,...confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes," made null and void all sales, transfers and conveyances of any estate and property of persons engaged...

...regarded as entirely satisfactory by Congress, and thereupon that body undertook, in the shape of " An Act to suppress Insurrection, to punish Treason...confiscate the Property of Rebels, and for other Purposes," passed July 17, 18(!2, to provide for emancipation, in the shape of confiscation. Although the provisions...

...allowance in clothing of three dollars and fifty cents (83 50) per month, and one ration each. The act entitled " An act to suppress insurrection, to punish...confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes," approved July 17, 1862,* provides that whoever shall commit treason -'shall suffer death" and all his...

...are or have been seized and confiscated by process property. • x of law, under the act of Congress entitled "An act to suppress insurrection, to punish...confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes," approved July 17, 1862, or any amendment thereto, all persons owning or claiming to own such property,...

...to pervert the facts, that he may point his sarcasm. One of the allegations here made, is that the " act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and...confiscate the property of rebels and for other purposes," approved July 17, 1862, is the same in substance and effect, aa this proclamation, so far as the slaves...

...regarded as entirely satisfactory by Congress, and thereupon that body undertook, in the shape of " An Act to suppress Insurrection, to punish Treason...confiscate the Property of Rebels, and for other Purposes," passed July 17, 1862, to provide for emancipation, in the shape of confiscation. Although the provisions...

...the House. Fellow Citizens of the Senate and House of Jiepritentatitu : Considering the bill for " AD act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and...confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes," and the joint resolution explanatory of said act. as being substantially one, I hare approved and signed...

...simply a punitory act directed against citizens acting the part of traitors ? The title of that act, " An Act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason...rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels," &c., defines at once and forever the relations between the government and its revolted citizens as...

...recommending its passage Informing Congress that he had approved the " Bill to suppress insurrection, punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes," and the joint resolution explanatory of said act Becommeoding that some suitable acknowledgment be...

...passage Informing Congress that he had approved the " Bill to suppress insurrection, punish treason anrl rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes," and the joint resolution explanatory of said act Recommending that some suitable acknowledgment be...