This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 edition. Excerpt: ... have been written, after my refusal to obey him against Commodore Stockton. The conclusion is inevitable. That refusal prevented the collision and the civil war which the letter mentioned, as being for the present prevented. I prevented it. My reward has been to have the war directed against myself, and to be ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 edition. Excerpt: ... have been written, after my refusal to obey him against Commodore Stockton. The conclusion is inevitable. That refusal prevented the collision and the civil war which the letter mentioned, as being for the present prevented. I prevented it. My reward has been to have the war directed against myself, and to be tried for capital and infamous crimes, with base and sordid motives attributed to me. "Tie question now is disobedience of orders--the order not to re-organize tke California battalion being the specification. " In the British service, from wiose rules and articles of war our own are copied, and where there is a judge advocate general to direct court martial proceedings with uniformity, the character or qualities of the order, disobedience to which is criminal, are already defined. At page 89 of Hough, edition of 1825, is found this defiaation of such an order: " In the absolute resistance of, or refusal of obedience to, a present and urgent command, conveyed either orally or in writing, and directed to be obeyed with promptitude, by the non-compliance with which some immediate act necessary to be done might be impeded or defeated, as high an offence is discoverable as can well be contemplated by the military mind; inasmuch as the principle which it holds out, would, if encouraged or not suppressed by some heavy penalty, forbid or preclude a reliance on the execution of any military measure. It is this positive disobedience, therefore, evincing a refractory spirit in the Inferior, an active opposition to the commands of a Superior, against which it must be supposed the severe penalty of the article is principally directed.' u From this definition of the kind of order which the rules and articles of war contemplate, it is clear that it is...
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