Atchison (KS) Freedom’s Champion, “Thaddeus Hyatt,” February 11, 1860

    Source citation
    “Thaddeus Hyatt,” Atchison (KS) Freedom’s Champion, February 11, 1860, p. 2: 1.
    Newspaper: Publication
    Atchison Freedom’s Champion
    Newspaper: Headline
    Thaddeus Hyatt
    Newspaper: Page(s)
    2
    Newspaper: Column
    1
    Type
    Newspaper
    Date Certainty
    Exact
    Transcriber
    Don Sailer, Dickinson College
    Transcription date
    The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.

    THADDEUS HYATT, Esq., of New York City and formerly the President of the National Kansas Aid Committee, has been subpoenaed to appear before the Senate Investigating Committee. He has decided to appear in obedience to their summons, but will refuse to answer any questions, on the ground that a legislative body, possessing under the Constitution only legislative powers, has no right to assume those of a purely judicial nature, and imprison a citizen. He expects to be committed for contempt, in which event his case will be taken before the Supreme Court on a writ of habeas corpus.

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