re: The only Independence Day I will celebrate is...

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It really doesn't matter what the end result was or how people feel about the confederacy and the USA, Abe Lincoln was a tyrannical war criminal that shat all over the american constitution and let his generals brutalize people that they grew up with just for the sake of brutalizing them.

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This is such a bizarre interpretation of the Civil War that I don't even know how to respond.

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Abe Lincoln was a tyrannical war criminal that shat all over the american constitution and let his generals brutalize people that they grew up with just for the sake of brutalizing them.

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None of that is true but in any case President Lincoln was indemnified for all his actions by the Habeas Corpus Act of 1863.

"The Habeas Corpus Suspension Act, 12 Stat. 755 (1863), entitled An Act relating to Habeas Corpus, and regulating Judicial Proceedings in Certain Cases, was an Act of Congress that authorized the president of the United States to suspend the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus in response to the United States Civil War and provided for the release of political prisoners. It began in the House of Representatives as an indemnity bill, introduced on December 5, 1862, releasing the president and his subordinates from any liability for having suspended habeas corpus without congressional approval.[1] The Senate amended the House's bill,[2] and the compromise reported out of the conference committee altered it to qualify the indemnity and to suspend habeas corpus on Congress's own authority.[3] Abraham Lincoln signed the bill into law on March 3, 1863, and suspended habeas corpus under the authority it granted him six months later. The suspension was partially lifted with the issuance of Proclamation 148 by Andrew Johnson,[4] and the Act became inoperative with the end of the Civil War. The exceptions to his Proclamation 148 were the States of Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas, the District of Columbia, and the Territories of New Mexico and Arizona."

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