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The "Treasonous" Lincoln

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"[It] is a singular omission in this message [by President James K. Polk], that it, no where intimates when the President expects the war to terminate. At it's beginning, Genl. Scott was, by this same President, driven into disfavor, if not disgrace, for intimating that peace could not be conquered in less than three or four months. But now, at the end of about twenty months, during which time our arms have given us the most splendid successes--every department, and every part, land and water, officers and privates, regulars and volunteers, doing all that men could do, and hundreds of things which it had ever before been thought men could not do,--after all this, this same President gives us a long message, without showing us, that, as to the end, he himself, has, even an imaginary conception. As I have before said, he knows not where he is. He is a bewildered, confounded, and miserably perplexed man. God grant he may be able to show, there is not something about his conscious [sic], more painful than all his mental perplexity!"

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    i have been fascinated by (none / 0) (#1)
    by cpinva on Sun Feb 18, 2007 at 10:59:50 AM EST
    mr. lincoln since i was in elementary school. next to washington, he is our greatest and most complex president.

    perhaps the biggest insult to mr. lincoln's memory is that he will now be joined by the present occupant of the white house, in history's roll call.

    talk about your polar opposites!

    Actually, (none / 0) (#2)
    by Deconstructionist on Mon Feb 19, 2007 at 03:31:57 PM EST
      Linclon issued an order suspending habeas corpus in rebel areas under union control. seized and shut down oppostion newspapers, allowed confederate soldiers to be detained without due process and generally did more to "expand executive authority than any President before him, at least until FDR.

      It's almost a truism that war will inevtiably lead to concentration of executive poer and dimunition of the legislature and judiciary.