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Excerpt from Speech of Hon. Geo, H. Yeaman, of Kentucky: On the President's Proclamation, Delivered in the House of Representatives, December 18th, 1862 They knew the history of the licensing acts, and the censorship over the press which had survived the logic of Milton and Locke; they knew that good men had been imprisoned in the Tower. For publishing the proceedings of Parliament, and said, Congress shall make no' law abridging the freedom of 'speech or the press. 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.