LeroyDumonde
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Complete strawman. I never claimed that everyone in the South supported secession. A sufficient number of elected representatives supported secessions. That's how republics work.Wrong and silly.
First of all, you are wrong that every citizen in those states supported slavery, separation, or renouncing their INALIENABLE right to citizenship in both the state and the federal !!!!!!!!!!!!
As Lincoln often said: People live in states with citizens of opposing views because their inalienable rights under the FEDERAL law keep them safe from reprisal
WE have many examples to the contrary of yours.
"One such incident was the suppression of the Chicago Times by General Ambrose Burnside on June 2, 1863 — after the paper. The Times, under editor Roger Storey, had become progressively more anti-war and harshly criticized Burnside’s arrest of former Congressman Clement Vallandigham the previous month. Popular opinion in Chicago was inflamed – both for and against Burnside’s action. Fearing street violence, a group of Chicago civic leaders sent a petition to the White House. Congressman Isaac Arnold alienated much of his German-American constituency by joining Senator Lyman Trumbull in asking that President Lincoln to reverse Burnside’s action — which the President did on June 4. Roger Waite wrote that President “Lincoln swiftly decided to act in the situation. Having received the petition from Chicago, being endorsed by two prominent politicians, Lincoln telegraphed orders suggesting that the order be lifted, to which Burnside followed with an order to revoke General Order 84 on June 4, 1863. However, soon, Lincoln also wrote stating: ‘I have received additional dispatches which…induce me to believe we should revoke or suspend the order suspending the Chicago Times. However, as Burnside had already issued the revocation, he let it stand.” "