[Non-Sequitur]

Did President Abraham Lincoln ultimately issue the directive to stop the newspaper from operating?

Any idea of what evidence they present that Lincoln did?

[churchillbuff]

Any idea of what evidence they present that Lincoln did?"""

I've seen the book at the store, but haven't read it.

[groanup]

Lincoln was a president. Reagan was a great president. FDR was a great president because he actually did something though we'd probably be better off without some of his programs. John F. Kennedy was recently voted the best president of the modern era. Go figure. He didn't do anything but screw up the invasion of "Cuber", as he pronounced it.

Point? Idiots pick the greatest presidents for the rest of the sheep. Lincolonel has been tagged with that moniker because of his Emancipation Proclimation, and we all know what a joke that was. It didn't even have its desired effect.

Oh, he did have some pithy, witty sayings.

[rwfromkansas]

It is well-known he shut down newspapers and threatened the free press.

But, whether he did so to this newspaper, I do not know and I am not interested enough to read the book.