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To: 4ConservativeJustices
Maybe I will read it. Maybe he has Lincoln pegged.

Please do. He nailed the Davis regime and their massive violations of legal and civil rights, too.

720 posted on 11/22/2003 4:09:34 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
Please do. He nailed the Davis regime and their massive violations of legal and civil rights, too.
'The Confederate Congress authorized suspension of the writ of habeas corpus for only about one-third of the war's duration, and President Davis actually suspended the writ of habeas corpus or imposed martial law over only a fraction of the territory within those seventeen months. Statutes limited suspension to the period from 27 February 1862 to 13 February 1863, and from 15 February 1864 to 31 July 1864. By contrast, President Lincoln without congressional authorization suspended the writ of habeas corpus in some places within two weeks of the fall of Fort Sumter, and in certain cases it was suspended throughout the North for twice as long as the Confederacy allowed suspension.'
Mark E. Neely, Jr., Southern Rights: Political Prisoners and the Myth of Confederate Constiutionalism, Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 1999, pp. 9-10
Sounds like he nailed Lincoln.
745 posted on 11/22/2003 6:36:57 PM PST by 4CJ (Come along chihuahua, I want to hear you say yo quiero taco bell. - Nolu Chan, 28 Jul 2003)
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To: Non-Sequitur
what does he say about damnyankees from the lincoln regime MURDERING POWs & raping,torturing,robbing & mudering civilians in the occupied south????

oh, i forgot. damnyankees were "angelic & perfect" weren't they? (SARCASM button ON!)

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771 posted on 11/23/2003 9:51:52 AM PST by stand watie (Resistence to tyrants is obedience to God. -Thomas Jefferson)
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