Rebels on the Great Lakes by John Bell

Rebels on the Great Lakes by John Bell

Author:John Bell [Bell, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, United States, Civil War Period (1850-1877), Military, Canada
ISBN: 9781554889884
Google: ud14FGD1DaIC
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2011-09-14T17:32:21+00:00


Under those circumstances he was not a spy — he was anything and everything but a spy. He was acting under a commission; he was in the service of the rebel Government; he was engaged in carrying on warfare; he was not endeavouring to perpetrate any offence against society. And if he were not acting under a commission or with authority, but was acting upon his own responsibility and from the wicked intent of his own heart for motives of personal malice or gain, he is not amenable to this tribunal, but must answer to the ordinary courts of the State within which the crime was committed.[27]



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