Lenoir-Wake County NcArchives News.....More Military Despotism January 7, 1863
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The Raleigh Standard, Jan. 7, 1863 January 7, 1863
The Raleigh Standard, Jan. 7, 1863
           MORE MILITARY DESPOTISM
   We stated recently that MR. W. C. LOFTIN, of Lenoir, had been arrested by 
the Confederate military authorities and consigned to the Bastille at 
Salisbury, and that MR. BADHAM, his counsel, had obtained a writ of habeus 
corpus  in his case from JUDGE SAUNDERS.
   We now have to state that MR. BADHAM proceeded to Salisbury with the writ, 
and that CAPT. MCCOY, in command of the Bastille at that place, refused to 
allow the writ to be executed. He told MR. BADHAM, among other things, that he 
had two hundred bayonets at his command, and that any attempt to arrest him 
for refusing to obey the writ, would be resisted. We learn also that COL. 
FOWLE, MR. BADHAM'S associate counsel, waited on JUDGE SAUNDERS to know what 
he would do after this resistance to this fiat by this military officer, when 
the Judge replied that he would take no further steps in the case.
   We have, therefore, an unmitigated military despotism in our midst, and a 
Judge who shrinks and cowers before the military power.
   MR. BADHAM'S card, detailing the facts in the case, will appear in our 
next. As the conductor of a free press, we commend MR. BADHAM for his fearless 
discharge of his duty as counsel in this case. 

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