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One of the unavoidable consequences of the present insurrection is the entire suppression in many places of all the ordinary means of administering civil justice by the officers and in the forms of existing law.
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gutenberg.orgAbraham Lincoln: “One of the unavoidable consequences of the present insurrection is the entire suppression in many places of all the…”
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Lincoln notes the challenges to civil justice during the insurrection, highlighting the breakdown of legal systems.
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