2/2/2019 0 Comments Quote 34To protect him from the wrath of the residents of Walker and vicinity, deputy United States marshals yesterday brought August John Koss, of that village, to Rochester and put him in the Monroe county jail. Although the villagers accuse the man of rabid pro-German utterances, no charge has been placed against him. -the article To Protect Him From Violence Pro-German Talker Is Locked Up printed in the newspaper, Democrat and Chronicle (september 23, 1918)
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1/26/2019 0 Comments Quote 30Acts or utterances of any kind tending to hinder or impair the efficient prosecution of the war are made unlawful by the sedition bill prepared for Governor Neville and the state council of defense, which was introduced in the lower branch of the legislature Tuesday afternoon as house ro'l [sic] No. 5. - from the article Sedition Bill Carries a Punch printed in, The Lincoln Star (March 27, 1918)
6/8/2018 0 Comments Quote #25I learned afterwards, that the substitute of hard labor in public, was tried (I believe it was in Pennsylvania) without success. Exhibited as a public spectacle, with shaved heads and mean clothing, working on the high roads, produced in the criminals such a prostration of character, such an abandonment of self-respect, as, instead of reforming, plunged them into the most desperate and hardened depravity of morals and character. - from the autobiography of Thomas Jefferson
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