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To: Non-Sequitur; Cincincinati Spiritus
Cincincinati Spiritus: “Senator Joseph Lane of Oregon March 2, 1861:”

You of course: “Oh my God!”

Your hero - Obama - Is about to “pull a Lincoln” and expel dissenters...
This is a short list
Of Good and honest men that were expelled ( or attempted expulsion) or Arrested for alleged disloyalty to the Union....
Waldo Porter Johnson - Missouri
Lawrence Washington Hall - Ohio
Trusten Polk - Missouri
Edson Baldwin Olds - Ohio
Benjamin Stark - Oregon
Eccles G. Van Riper - Indiana
Clement Laird Vallandigham - Ohio
Alexander Long - Ohio
Samuel Medary - Ohio
Luke Pryor Blackburn Kentucky

1,132 posted on 03/24/2010 6:33:56 AM PDT by Idabilly
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To: Idabilly
Scratch

Eccles G. Van Riper

I'll add more when time permits

1,134 posted on 03/24/2010 6:49:39 AM PDT by Idabilly
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To: Idabilly
Your hero - Obama - Is about to “pull a Lincoln” and expel dissenters...

Your hero maybe. Not mine.

Of Good and honest men that were expelled ( or attempted expulsion) or Arrested for alleged disloyalty to the Union....

In several cases - Johnson and Polk, for example - the disloyalty was true. Both those men joined the rebel congress in Richmond. As for the rest, none of them were expelled from Congress for their actions. Luke Blackburn was tried in Canada but not in the U.S. Your list of heroes is pretty thin.

1,136 posted on 03/24/2010 7:00:49 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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