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The Habeas corpus.

--In the Georgia Legislature, on the 9th inst Mr. Linton Stevens introduced in the House of Representatives a resolution declaring the power to suspend the habeas corpus limited by the prohibition that no person shall be deprived of liberty without due process of law, which must come from the courts, and not from the Executive, and that the act of congress attempting to sustain arrests under process or orders from the Executive is void.

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