"Generations of historians have accurately labeled him a 'dictator'.
“Dictatorship played a decisive role in the North’s successful effort to maintain the Union by force of arms,” wrote Clinton Rossiter in Constitutional Dictatorship (first published in 1948).
“Lincoln’s amazing disregard for the Constitution was considered by nobody as legal.”
James G. Randall documented (his) assault upon law and liberty in Constitutional Problems Under Lincoln (first published in 1926).
Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus and ordered the military to arrest tens of thousands of political opponents.
At his command, but without a shred of legal authority, ca. 300 newspapers were closed and all telegraphic communications censored; elections in the North were rigged; throughout the Union, Democratic voters were intimidated; in New York City, hundreds of protesters against conscription (a form of slavery) were shot;
West Virginia was unconstitutionally carved out of Virginia; and the most outspoken member of the Democratic Party opposition, Congressman Clement L. Vallandigham of Ohio, was deported.
For good measure, duly-elected members of the Maryland legislature were gaoled, as was the mayor of Baltimore and a Maryland Congressman.
In total disregard of the Second Amendment to the Constitution, inhabitants of Border States (Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri and West Virginia) were disarmed, and wherever Lincoln’s evil tentacles could spread, private property was confiscated.
By you? Not a ringing endorsement of impartiality.
"Generations of historians have accurately labeled him a 'dictator'.
And generations of reputable historians have disputed that. You can toss all the "amazing disregard for the Constitution" you want and claim all the unconstitutional acts you and your fellow Lost Causers care to. But what you fail to provide are facts backing your claims up. Plenty of opinion - you Southron types are never shy about trotting out opinion and calling it fact. But actual documented proof that Lincoln knew an act was illegal and did it anyway is very much in short supply when dealing with you and your ilk. I mean look at this crap.
Generations of historians have accurately labeled him a 'dictator'
Like who and based on what? Randall?
Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus and ordered the military to arrest tens of thousands of political opponents.
Complete and utter bullshit. Documented by legal scholars like Mark Neeley and Sandra O'Conner among others.
At his command, but without a shred of legal authority, ca. 300 newspapers were closed and all telegraphic communications censored; elections in the North were rigged; throughout the Union, Democratic voters were intimidated; in New York City, hundreds of protesters against conscription (a form of slavery) were shot;
Again, complete nonsense without a shred of evidence to support it. Over 300 newspapers closed? Name them! Hundreds of protestors shot? Evidence! You do nothing put spout the same old Southron myth, time and time again.
West Virginia was unconstitutionally carved out of Virginia; and the most outspoken member of the Democratic Party opposition, Congressman Clement L. Vallandigham of Ohio, was deported.
Complete crap.
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More of the same nonsense.