Speed Joseph J.ABAA
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184156464Baltimore: Sherwood & Co 1841. First edition 8vo pamphlet 2 12 2; later paper wrappers; lightly foxed and folded very good. A pro-slavery tract arguing that slavery "is one of the primitive domestic relations ordained and established by the Creator. as one of the best means of promoting the happiness of the human family." Sabin 80086. Afro-Americana 9365 both incorrectly attributing the work to J. J. Sheed. See Sabin 89236 for correction. <br/><br/> Sherwood & Co unknown books
186532612Washington 1865. 16pp disbound light rubberstamp Good.<br/><br/> Speed was a Kentuckian appointed as Lincoln's Attorney General in 1864. Though a Border State moderate he quickly became an all-out Union man with the outbreak of war. Here he opines that trial of the alleged presidential assassins should occur by military commission rather than civil courts: the law of war as part of the law of nations has implicitly been adopted in the Constitution. "When lawless wretches become so impudent and powerful as not to be controlled and governed by the ordinary tribunals of a country armies are called out and the laws of war invoked." The laws of war do not require different treatment of "secret active enemies" and "open active enemies" who would be tried by military tribunal. Under these circumstances the alleged assassins may be tried by military court without a jury. <br/>FIRST EDITION. Monaghan 739. II Harv. Law Cat. 634. Not in LCP. unknown books