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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lorrie coey who wrote (10673)	2/2/2000 12:25:00 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Whether I'm wiggin' or not don't take away from the fact that Saint Abe exercised his power brutally. Civilians were tried by military courts so they could be denied a jury trial. People who disapproved of his policies were locked up without a trial. There is the example of a Northern Democrat from Ohio named Clement Vallandigham. He was a "dove." In March 1863 he denounced the war as "wicked and cruel" and charged that it was undertaken to "to enthrone Republican despotism on America." He called Lincoln a dictator and denounced his income tax policy in these words: "Through a tax law, the like of which has never been imposed on any but a conquered people, they [the Republicans] have possession....of the entire property of the people of the country." Lincoln reacted like a tyrant. This was a speech given at a political rally for the Democratic Party. It was nothing more than rough and tumble politics. But Vallandigham was arrested and charged before a military court in Ohio, even though civilian courts were open and Ohio was not in a war zone. The military court found him guilty of expressing "treasonable sentiments." Lincoln had him exiled to the South, but he fled to Canada instead. Lincoln was basically a bag man for the industrialists.