MR. JUSTICE HARLAN, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.
By the proclamation of the President of the United States, issued, on the sixteenth day of August, 1861, in pursuance of authority given by the act of July 13, 1861, c. 3, the inhabitants of Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and other States, — except that part of Virginia west of the Alleghany Mountains, and of such other parts of that and the other States named as might maintain...
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