Volume 18, Number 7 · April 20, 1972
I.F. Stone Reports: Moving the Constitution to the Back of the Bus
By I.F. Stone
During Reconstruction, when the Southern states were still under military occupation, a Mississippi editor who was an 'unreconstructed rebel' published an editorial in the Vicksburg Times called 'The Scoundrelism of Satraps.' It severely criticized the Yankee general in command of that area. The editor was arrested and held for trial before a military commission under the Reconstruction Acts. He sought his freedom on a writ of habeas corpus, and when this was denied by the circuit court, appealed to the Supreme Court.
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