Oh I disagree with everything you’ve written.
Vallandigham was deported! Lincoln knew about it because he GAVE the order!
Gerrymandering had nothing to do with this deportation!
Lincoln reacted just like Bronco Bama would in such a case!
This may not be a free country today, but it was supposed to be in the time of the bewhiskered ape. (Nast’s description of (dis)honest ape.)
I did not say Lincoln did not know about the deportation, I said he didn’t know about V’s original arrest. Once the arrest had taken place, Lincoln didn’t want to try him, and also didn’t want to release him, so he was deported to his friends in the CSA.
I also never said V’s deportation had anything to do with gerrymandering. I said he was no longer a member of Congress when arrested (or deported) because the Republican OH legislature had gerrymandered his seat out of existence.
The article says he was deported for statements made on the floor of the House. This is flatly untrue.
Here’s the sequence:
V is member of House, and violently opposes the President there. Left strictly alone.
OH legislature, with cooperation of war Democrats, gerrymandered his district so he couldn’t be reelected. He lost 1862 election.
V returns to OH and (probably intentionally) violates Burnside’s (unconstitutional) Order 38.
Burnside has V arrested. Lincoln is flummoxed what to do with him, as his being imprisoned is hurting the Repubs. So he has him deported.
If you have a disagreement with something I actually said, rather than with things I didn’t say, post them and I’ll be happy to respond.
Perhaps the most interesting thing about Vallandigham is how he died.
In defending his client against a murder charge, he was demonstrating in court how the victim’s gun might have accidentally gone off. The demonstration worked perfectly. Unfortunately, the demonstration was probably more realistic than V intended, and it killed him.
Don’t know if his client was acquitted.