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<blockquote data-quote="av8torntn" data-source="post: 286555" data-attributes="member: 8259"><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">"I'm surprised it has been repeated as often as you say."</span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">Waller might have put the phrase in italics</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">Waller's article still suggests that Lincoln <u>might</u> have said it,</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"> In a famous <span style="color: #023f7e">letter</span> to Democratic Rep. Erastus Corning dated June 12, 1863, Lincoln defended the military trial and the attendant suspension of habeas corpus, and at one point referring to Vallandigham as an agitator who had been urging soldiers to desert:</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">It is true that Lincoln temporarily exiled a <u>former</u> member of Congress, Democrat Clement <span style="color: #023f7e">Vallandigham</span> of Ohio</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">encouraging draft evasion or desertion may fall under the broad heading of "undermining the military".</span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">All from <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> the article you linked. Like I said even the author of your article does not know exactly what Lincoln said but he does seem to understand that people do give that quote to him and this is why he wrote the article.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="av8torntn, post: 286555, member: 8259"] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]"I'm surprised it has been repeated as often as you say."[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3]Waller might have put the phrase in italics[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]Waller's article still suggests that Lincoln [U]might[/U] have said it,[/SIZE] [SIZE=3] In a famous [COLOR=#023f7e]letter[/COLOR] to Democratic Rep. Erastus Corning dated June 12, 1863, Lincoln defended the military trial and the attendant suspension of habeas corpus, and at one point referring to Vallandigham as an agitator who had been urging soldiers to desert:[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]It is true that Lincoln temporarily exiled a [U]former[/U] member of Congress, Democrat Clement [COLOR=#023f7e]Vallandigham[/COLOR] of Ohio[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]encouraging draft evasion or desertion may fall under the broad heading of "undermining the military".[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]All from [FONT=Times New Roman] the article you linked. Like I said even the author of your article does not know exactly what Lincoln said but he does seem to understand that people do give that quote to him and this is why he wrote the article.[/FONT][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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