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Title: The Civil War : the national view
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Thorpe, Francis Newton, 1857-1926
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Publisher: Philadelphia : George Barrie & Sons
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ll, the process may becivil or military. The period of the Civil War was notwholly a period when the definition was working itself outby civil precess. The state of mind of the American peo-ple was changing, and extraordinary and exceptional pro-cedure, such as that typified in the arrest of Vallandigham,was an incident of that change. Testing Lincolns conductand responsibility for this and other arbitrary arrests at theNorth during the war by the tests which alone can be ap-plied to a man for his acts—the motive and the law—therecan be but one just conclusion, that to maintain the Union,to protect and defend that entity and organism, the Nation,was his motive and that the final law in such cases—excep-tional as he himself admitted them to be—cannot be theletter of the law, but its spirit and purpose. If violence wasdone to the Constitution by Lincolns act, the responsibilityrests upon those who at the time of the act were imperilling n \ I I AN i: A Vi- JtH U S GRANT
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Map of the battlefield of Chattanooga. From a print in the MapDivision, Library of Congress^ Washington. T rHE SECOND YEAR OF THE WAR 305 the Constitution by rebellion. It is one of the paradoxes ofhistory that critics who censure Lincoln for the arrest andbanishment of Vallandigham also praise the leaders of theConfederacy for valor, skill and victory. Toward the close of 1862, an event of extraordinary andexceptional character occurred—the creation of the Stateof West Virginia. In the usual course, a State of theAmerican Union, since the union of the original ThirteenStates, is formed out of a Territory, the Territory itself be-ing created by act of Congress and carved out, geographically,from Federal soil. The creation of West Virginia differedfrom that of any other American Commonwealth. I willtranscribe the history of the formation and admission ofWest Virginia from the third volume of my Constitu-tional History of the United States: For more than half a century, Virginia had c

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