Posted on 11/13/2005 1:46:46 PM PST by Rome2000
Anybody listen to this nutjob on MTP today?
Fascinating and very scary.
He ought to be arested for sedition with his relentless attacks on the CIC, underming morale and giving aid to the enemy by attempting to sap the will of the American people to support the war on terror.
Lock him up!
I'm sorry, I have absolutely no idea how you feel.
Not a bad idea. Arresting lefties would solidify the Base for Bush.
The answer is not to lose our rights, but to take the educational system back from the socialist left and educate our children so they won't fall for the lies and seditious attacks from them.
Clement Vallandigham, a notorious anti-Union zealot from Ohio was banished from his own country by Abraham Lincoln. He would not go peacefully though, nor could he remain long away from the war that fueled his hatred. Eventually, he would die in as bizarre a fashion as he had lived.
Clement Laird Vallandigham, a former Ohio Congressman from Dayton, Ohio was largely responsible for a growing and vocal opposition to the Civil War. The reportedly handsome young lawyer, son of a Presbyterian minister, was the undisputed leader of the Copperheads ("Peace Democrats") in the Northwest. He was also a notorious, thinly-veiled, Southern sympathizer who made speeches, to anyone who would listen, calling the war, "wicked and cruel," and which was quite obvious to all. Then however, Vallandigham strayed beyond the realm of reality and suggested that the Republicans only wanted to end slavery to further their quest for a dictatorship. The government had little tolerance for such reckless and inflammatory remarks. Unfortunately for Vallandigham, "treason" was then a clay-like concept that would be molded to suit the needs of the war effort.
On May 5, 1863, a Company of the 115th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, dispatched to Dayton, Ohio by special train, broke into Vallandigham's house at 3:00 A.M. and arrested him. The former Congressman was taken from his home in a nightshirt and quickly transported to Cincinnati where he would be tried by a military commission the following day on charges of "treasonable utterances." Riots broke out in Dayton in response to the arrest, with fires destroying an entire city block. Troops from Columbus and and Cincinnati were brought in and martial law declared. Vallandigham was soon convicted of aiding the Confederates, and on May 19, 1863 President Lincoln ordered Secretary of War Stanton to see to it that Vallandigham was banished to "beyond the military lines of the United States and not be permitted to return, under threat of arrest."
Don't be daft. The more he speaks, the more people he alienates.
Regards, Ivan
that headline is missing the /obvious tag.
Out of curiosity, how does it feel to be one of the few Republicans who's more out of wack then Dean?
You should stop holding in you feelings..
But unlike Teddy Kennedy he never killed anybody.
Unlike John Kerry he never committed treason.
Unlike Barney Frank he never openly committed a homosexual act.
Unlike Bill Clinton he was never impeached or convicted or disbarred of Lewinskyed in the Oval Office.
Unlike Hillary Clinton he never lost his billing records.
Unlike Web Hubble he never went to jail.
When compared to the run of the mill Rat, he's not so bad.
Don't hold back...
Preach to the choir.
I like red meat.
I can't beleive you... Lock him up... Are you serious. This great man is deserving of nothing less than piano wire and a lamp post.
Federal troops in Tennessee turned Vallandigham over to the Confederate Army on May 25, 1863. In June, President Davis of the Confederate States, having no use for Vallandigham, orders him to Wilmington, North Carolina to be guarded as an "alien enemy." That same month. Peace Democrats in Ohio nominate the the exiled and incarcerated Vallandigham for Governor. A committee of the Democratic convention demanded that President Lincoln reverse his ordered exile of Vallandigham. Lincoln refused. "Must I," Lincoln lamented, "shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of a wiley agitator who induces him to desert?" In October, Vallandigham, now exiled by the Confederate States to Canada, would be defeated for the Ohio Governorship by Democrat John Brough from Marietta.
On June 14, 1864, one year after being exiled, Clement Vallandigham slips back into the country and arrives in Ohio wearing a feeble disguise that fails to deceive the Federal agents watching him. Soon, he will be appointed National Commander of the radical "Sons of Liberty," a secret anti-war organization also known as the "Knights of the Golden Circle." Throughout the summer of 1864 Vallandigham will conspire with the Confederate agents in a bizarre plot to effect the release of 20,000 prisoners of war in Ohio, Illinois and Indiana.
"Hon. C.L. Vallandigham is at his home in Dayton, enjoying the rights of a freeman once more. He returned of his own will and pleasure, as he had a right to do, without asking the permission of the usurper Lincoln. His arrest and banishment was an infamous outrage - a mean act of despotic power, which never ought have been countenanced."
~ The Circleville Democrat ~
Friday, June 24, 1864
The newspaper, a highly-partisan Democratic paper also reports in full a speech by Vallandigham to the Democratic Convention at Hamilton, Ohio. The masthead of the paper proudly proclaims; "The Constitution as it is - the Union as it was." The so-called "Peace" Party flourished for a time, but ultimately faded away and the war, as wars eventually do, came to an end. Vallandigham returned to the practice of law and gave up any further ambitions of political glory.
In June of 1871, Clement Vallandigham, defending an Ohio man charged with murder, requested a change of venue to Warren County, Ohio. There, in his hotel room at the Golden Lamb Inn at Lebanon, Ohio, Vallandigham was rehearsing his final arguments to the jury. He would suggest that his client was innocent and that the victim had actually killed himself accidentally. To demonstrate the freak accident he proposed, Vallandigham planned to pull a similar pistol from his trouser pocket to demonstrate how it might accidentally fire. While practicing his arguments in his room at the Golden Lamb, Vallandigham pulled the pistol and, ironically, it fired, sending a bullet into his abdomen at point blank range. Clement Vallandigham, the notorious Southern-sympathizer from Ohio, once banished from the Union by President Lincoln, died the next morning at the age of fifty-one.
Copyright ©2001, M.T. Mitchell
So, tell us...how do you really feel about Howard Dean?
Yep !!!
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