REBELLION. The taking up arms trai torously against the government. The forci ble opposition and resistance to the laws and process lawfully issued.
Insurrection, sedition, rebellion, revolt, and mutiny express action directed against gov ernment or authority, while riot has this im plication only incidentally, if at all. They express actual and open resistance to author ity. Except sedition, which may be secret or open, is only of a nature to lead to overt acts. An insurrection goes beyond sedition, in that it is an actual arising against the government. Rebellion goes be yond insurrection in aim, being an attempt actually to overthrow the government, while an insurrection seeks only some change of minor importance. A rebellion is generally on a larger scale than an insurrection. A revolt hag generally the same aim as a re bellion, but it is on a smaller scale. A revolt may be against military government, but is generally like insurrection, sedition, and re bellion against civil government. A mutiny is
organized resistance to law in an army or navy, and sometimes a similar act by an in dividual. The success of a rebellion often dignifies it with the name of a revolution. Cent. Diet.
One incites, etc., rebellion or insurrec tion against the United States or gives aid or comfort thereto shall be imprisoned not more than ten years or fined not more than $10, or both ; and be incapable of holding of fice under the United States Cr. Code, § 4.
When a rebellion has broken out in any state, the rebel cruisers may be treated as pirates by the established government, if the rebel government has not been recognized as belligerent by the parent state or by foreign nations; but the right ceases to exist on the recognition of the rebels as belligerents; Miller v. U. S., 11 Wall. (U. S.) 268, 20 L. Ed. 135; Boyd's Wheat. Int. Law 169.