This is factually incorrect.
Vallandigham was gerrymandered out of his House seat, and was not in office when he gave (in OH, not DC) the speech that got him arrested.
The well-meaning but eternally bumbling General Burnside arrested him without Lincoln's knowledge.
He was arrested not for anything to do with domestic policies but for seditious antiwar talk.
Similar public speaking would have gotten the speaker arrested during WWII.
Au contraire, mon ami.
(A little French Lingo there to demonstrate my fondness for the wines made by the little froggies.)
On May 19, 1863, President Lincoln ordered Vallandigham deported and sent to the Confederacy.[28] When he was within Confederate lines, Vallandigham said: “I am a citizen of Ohio, and of the United States. I am here within your lines by force, and against my will. I therefore surrender myself to you as a prisoner of war.”[29]
Vallandigham travelled to Richmond, Virginia. Vallandigham told Robert Ould (Vallandigham and Ould both went to the same college) of the Confederate government not to invade Pennsylvania because it would unite the North against the Copperheads in the 1864 presidential election.[30] However, a Letter to the Editor of The New York Times gave a different version, saying that Vallandigham encouraged the invasion.[31]
Vallandigham travelled by blockade-runner to Bermuda and then to Canada, where he declared himself a candidate for Governor of Ohio, subsequently winning the Democratic nomination in absentia. (Outraged at his treatment by Lincoln, Ohio Democrats by a vote of 411 -11 nominated Vallandigham for governor[32] at their June 11 convention.) He managed his campaign from a hotel in Windsor, Ontario, where he received a steady stream of visitors and supporters.[33]
Vallandigham asked the question in his address or letter of July 15, 1863 “To the Democracy of Ohio”: “Shall there be free speech, a free press, peaceable assemblages of the people, and a free ballot any longer in Ohio?”[34] Vallandigham lost the 1863 Ohio gubernatorial election in a landslide to pro-Union War Democrat John Brough by a vote of 288,374 to 187,492,[35] but his activism had left people of Dayton divided between pro- and anti-slavery factions.
Oh I disagree with everything you’ve written.
Vallandigham was deported! Lincoln knew about it because he GAVE the order!
Gerrymandering had nothing to do with this deportation!
Lincoln reacted just like Bronco Bama would in such a case!
This may not be a free country today, but it was supposed to be in the time of the bewhiskered ape. (Nast’s description of (dis)honest ape.)