[jeffersondem]

“They don't stay in the Union. They steal federal property.They fire on federal troops.”

Most, if not all, of the 13,000 Americans that Lincoln imprisoned were in Union states, under Union control. Some were Union state legislators; Union state newspaper editors whose only crimes were to criticize Lincoln. The newspaper editors did not fire on federal troops.

President Lincoln suspended habeas corpus for United States citizens.

At some point you need to come to grips with what he did.

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None of that would have happened but for the Civil War. Presidents do things in crises that they wouldn't do in ordinary times. Ask Jefferson Davis about that. He did the same things for the same reasons - though with less justification from our present-day point of view.

With all these conspiracy theories floating around, consider this one: Maybe Jefferson Davis and the other secessionists were agents (paid or not) of the abolitionists or the Northern industrialists. Things happened to slavery and the South that wouldn't have happened if they'd only stayed with the union. Maybe that was what key secessionists were secretly working for. It's not as crazy as some things people say on line.