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of the enlightenment of Christianity:- whether his widow and orphan child shall be in effect outlawed, or if not outlawed, made out-casts, forfeiting in effect their all, in a land not allowing corruption of blood, and in a case where there has been no arrest, no trial and no conviction of any one for any crime which can cause forfeiture after death?

3rdly -  If it be alleged that this place Woodburn was seized during the ward and is held since the death of its owner, by virtue of the power of war, under Martial law, and is still held because the war is still flagrant; your Memorialist respectfully submits that the President of the U. States has formally and officially announced to Congress, in his message vetoing the reorganization of the Bureau of Freedmen and abandoned lands, that "the war is at an end and has ceased;" that all the armies of the Confederate States have surrendered; that all the people of the seceding states have retired from further contest and returned to peaceful avocations; that civil tribunals are established in all those states and that the ordinary process of the Courts of Justice of civil jurisdiction can be executed. The manhood of war would blush to plead any necessity now to hold this homestead longer against a lone widow and her infant after the President has declared the war to cease and no further necessity for a Freedman's Bureau.