[Triple]

I especially loved the part where he had members of the Maryland legislature arrested, so they could not vote on secession.

NOT

[billbears]

You mean the 31 legislators? What paper would you like the direct quote out of? Or would you like their take of the federal troops that voted in the Maryland elections?

[justshutupandtakeit]

That was an excellent move and prevented the dumbassed Slaveocrats from committing treason. Treason was and is still illegal. Though it is only opinion that Maryland would have seceded.

Unfortunately he could not stop the other idiots from provoking a war which cost the lives of hundreds of thousands. War in defense of the ability of the Slaveocrats to live on the blood of their fellow humans like vampires.