I gather that he did not like Lincoln.
This author posts what he said on his arrest and on his release. Still nothing on what he said before. But with these sentiments, it would be easy to suppose that he had posted some scathing commentary on President Lincoln during the period from the riots to his arrest.
‘When I looked out in the morning, I could not help being struck by an odd and not pleasant coincidence. On that day, forty-seven years before, my grandfather, Mr. F. S. Key, the prisoner on a British ship, had witnessed the bombardment of Ft. McHenry. When on the following morning the hospital fleet drew off, defeated, he wrote the song so long popular throughout the country, the Star Spangled Banner. As I stood upon the very scene of that conflict, I could not but contrast my position with his, forty-seven years before. The flag which he had then so proudly hailed, I saw waving at the same place over the victims of as vulgar and brutal a despotism as modern times have witnessed.”
When he was finally released on November 27, 1862 he wrote:
“We came out of prison just as we had gone in, holding the same just scorn and detestation [for] the despotism under which the country was prostrate, and with a stronger resolution that ever to oppose it by every means to which, as American freemen, we had the right to resort.”
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Still nothing on what he said before. It appears that, according to Lincoln himself, he need not have said anything at all.
" In his defense of his actions Lincoln stated that “...the public safety does require the suspension.” “Arrests by process of courts and arrests in cases of rebellion do not proceed altogether upon the same basis....In the latter case the arrests are made not so much for what has been done, as for what probably would be done.”
The One probably will not have to actually do anything. The Cobamunists will handle it for The One. The One will merely speak high praise of someone while invoking the Holy Hand Signal.
