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> responded by having him arrested on grounds of making anti-war speeches, tried him in a military tribunal despite Vallandigham being a civilian, and sentenced him to imprisonment, before Lincoln commuted the sentence to banish Vallandigham to the Confederacy)

That was good enough for him in my book.



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