Arbitrary arrests!

Item Information

• Description
  One-paged leaflet denouncing General McClellan's arrest of the Maryland state legislature in September 1861 and his interference with the state's elections in October 1861. The Democratic party protests this use of war powers, claiming that it disregards the Constitution.

• Item ID
  bdsmd51008
• Source Collection
  Broadsides and Ephemera Collection
• Spatial Coverage
  United States
  Maryland
  Pennsylvania
  Philadelphia County (Pa.)
  Philadelphia (Pa.)
• Language
  eng
• Title
  Arbitrary arrests!
• Extent
  1 scan
• Date
  1861-10-29
• Folder
  MD10 (Ovsz.)
• Type
  Text
  broadsides
  leaflets
• Subject
  Elections
  Military campaigns
  United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865

• Copyright & Usage
  None