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[Da Bilge Troll]

Abraham Lincoln is hailed as a hero of democracy

Not by me, as it happens.

[4CJ]

Lincoln threatened to lock up Chief Justice Roger Taney as well.

If Lamon had not been so fond of Taney, it probably would have happened.

[lentulusgracchus]

Clement Vallandingham considered the war to be entirely unnecessary because he had no desire to abolish the ‘peculiar institution,’ as slavery was euphemistically known. In fact, he considered blacks to be an irredeemably inferior race that was suited only for bondage and servitude. Thus Vallandingham turns out to be hardly the poster boy for civil liberties that he originally seems.

C'mon, author. Fill in the rest of the story. And while you're at it, load Vallandigham's name into a spell checker.