To: JBTFD who wrote (58465 ) 3/1/2005 4:28:25 PM From: Lazarus_Long Read Replies (1) | Respond to So what do you want? A DVD of the Gettysburg address?But Bush is far from matching such constitutional outrages as Republican Abraham Lincoln's jailing of "copperheads" who criticized how he conducted the Civil War, or Democrat Woodrow Wilson's use of domestic agents to spy on journalists like the Baltimore Sun's H.L. Mencken during World War I. krtdirect.com WorldNetDaily columnist Ilana Mercer, in a recent article accurately lays out the case against President Lincoln. Stating that the Lincoln administration, "carried out a violent constitutional revolution. A revolution, which, in turn, sired the modern imperialist, interventionist and highly centralized American State." Ms. Mercer also accuses Lincoln of: libertyforall.net During the Civil War, Northern critics of President Lincoln were jailed and even exiled by military tribunals. usatoday.com In contrast, Lincoln was the First Amendment’s greatest enemy. In 1839, Alexis de Tocqueville had written: "Among the twelve million people living in the United States, there is not one single man who has dared to suggest restricting the freedom of the press." Just twenty-five years later, Lincoln, true to his Federalist and Hamiltonian roots, felt no compunction whatever about jailing during the Civil War a total of thirteen thousand Northern civilians who had expressed views critical of Lincoln or his war. According to historian Arthur Ekirch, this was often done "without any sort of trial or after only cursory hearings before a military tribunal." lewrockwell.com Abraham Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus, and the jailing of editors and other dissenters during the Civil War cannabisnews.com
