and comfort to the enemy; and you will hold the persons so arrested in close custody until they can be brought to trial before a military commision for their offense. You will also take possession by military force of the printing establishments of the New York "World" and "Journal of Commerce", and hold the same until further orders, and prohibit any further publication therefrom. A. LINCOLN.
ZANE, ELIZABETH. — Described as the handsome and vivacious daughter of Col. Zane, (Zahn), founder of Wheeling, W. Va. In 1782 a fort near Zane's loghouse on the site of the present city was attacked by a band of British soldiers and 186 Indian savages. The defenders of the fort were reduced from 42 to 12, and as the supply of powder was running low, the little garrison seemed doomed. The enemy was covering every approach to. Zane's loghouse, about sixty yards distant, where a full keg of powder was stored. It was to get this powder that Miss Zane responded when volunteers were called for, arguing that not a man could be spared wjiile a girl would not be missed. Despite every protest she set out on her daring journey, leisurely opened the back gate and crossed the ground as coolly as though for a stroll. The British and Indians were dumbfounded, and did not realize what her plan was until she returned, carrying the keg under a table cloth. They then opened fire on her, several bullets passing through her clothing, but the heroic girl reached the blockhouse unscathed and enabled the defenders to hold out until relief came.
ZENGER, JOHN PETER—Noted in American history as the man who fought to a successful issue the problem of the freedom of the press in this country. Came over as a boy. in the Palatine migration and was an apprentice to Bradford in Philadelphia. Established the New York ■"Weekly Journal" November 5, 1733. Was arrested and imprisoned by Governor Cosby for his political criticisms ; the paper containing them was publicly burned by the hangman, and the case was then thrown into the courts. Zenger was charged with being an immigrant who dared to attack the royal prerogatives and official representatives. (The same points raised under the Wilson administration). Arrested in 1734, he was at first denied pen, ink and paper, nothwithstanding which he continued to edit the "Journal" from his prison. The grand jury refused to find a bill for libel, and proceedings were instituted by the Attorney General by information. Zenger's defense was entrusted to Andrew Hamilton, a Quaker lawyer of marked ability, himself an immigrant from Ireland, who came from Philadelphia especially to undertake the defense. Zenger's case became a turning point on the great question of the truth justifying libel. Hamilton attacked the claim of the Governor, denounced the practice of information for libel, and declared that this was not the cause of a poor printer, but of liberty, which concerned every American. The triumphant result obtained by Hamilton has made his name famous in American jurisprudence. Zenger's trial overthrew the effort of arbitrary power to suppress free speech, to control courts of justice, to rule by royal prerogative. The jury turned the judge out of court and Zenger was sustained in the right of criticising the administration, and his criticisms were declared to be true and just. Zenger therefore gained for the people
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