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Excerpt from Opinion of Judge N. K. Hall, of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York, on Habeas Corpus in the Case of Rev. Judson D. Benedict: And Documents and Statement of Facts Relating Thereto, With Notes and Additional Authorities In the appendix, following the first opinion, will be found (besides other notes) a note containing extended quotations from many of the most accurate and reliable military and legal writers, and other distinguished persons. Who have discussed the subject of martial law and also a few s'ug gestions in regard to the term Martial Law, its true signification and force, and the exercise of arbitrary power, in England' and the United States. Under pretence of its authority. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Nathan Kelsey Hall was born on March 28, 1810, in that part of Marcellus which is now Skaneateles, New York, United States, the son of Ira and Katherine (Rose) Hall. His father, a New England shoemaker, was descended from John Hall who came to Boston about 1633 and later settled in Wallingford, Connecticut. Ira Hall moved to Erie County in 1818, but his son Nathan remained at Marcellus with Nathan Kelsey, for whom he was named, until he was sixteen.
Nathan studied law in Buffalo, New York.
Nathan Hall worked on his father’s farm, and at his father’s trade until 1828, when he entered the law-office of Millard Fillmore, then a struggling young lawyer at Aurora. While studying law, young Hall taught a district school for eleven dollars a month, did odd jobs of land surveying, and acted as clerk in the office of the Holland Land Company. Upon his admission to the bar in 1832 he formed a partnership with Fillmore, who was then practising in Buffalo. During the next decade he held several minor city and county offices, and in 1841 became judge of the court of common pleas for Erie County.
A Whig in politics, Hall was a member of the Assembly in 1845, and of the United States House of Representatives from 1847 to 1849, but refused a renomination. On July 23, 1850, he became postmaster general in Fillmore’s cabinet, holding office until August 31, 1852. In that year Fillmore appointed him United States judge of the Northern District of New York, which office he filled with credit until his death.
Perhaps his most important opinion was given September 23, 1862, in the case of Reverend Judson D. Benedict, a pacifist who had been arbitrarily arrested by order of the War Department. Hall held that the president could not constitutionally suspend the writ of habeas corpus, and ordered the release of the prisoner, who was, however, immediately rearrested and taken by the United States marshal to Washington, out of his jurisdiction.
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Hall was calm and patient, intensely serious, almost austere; without imagination, fervor, or graces of expression. He was fearless in his interpretation and application of the principles of the law, which was to him a sacred thing. He never played, and, in fact, wore himself out by intense application to the heavy business of his district. His interest in education was keen.
On November 16, 1832, Nathan Hall was married to Emily Paine of Aurora.
