Democratic (constitutionalist) de facto Representative Clemet L. Vallandigham (a resident of the federal enclave of Ohio) delivers his “Executive Usurpation” speech to the House of Representatives, exposing Republican (nationalist) President Lincoln’s real agenda in pursuing the War of Federal Aggression—imposition of the Whig agenda, i.e. the “American System”, and condemns the President’s unlawful pursuit of war against the Confederate States, and the (protective) Morrill Tariff that exacerbated it:
[T]he Confederate Congress adopted out old tariff of 1857 … fixing their rate of duties at five, fifteen, and twenty-five percent lower than ours. The result was … trade and commerce … began to look to the South. … The city of New York, the great commercial emporium of the Union, and the North-west, the chief granary of the Union, began to clamor now, loudly, for a repeal of the pernicious and ruinous tariff. Threatened thus with the loss of both political power and wealth, or the repeal of the tariff, and, at last, of coercion and civil war, with all its horrors, as the price of preserving either from destruction. …The subjugation of the South, and the closing up of her port—first, by force, in war and afterward, by tariff laws, in peace, was deliberately resolved upon by the East.
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[N]ational banks, bankrupt laws, a vast and permanent public debt, high tariffs, heavy direct taxation, enormous expenditure, gigantic and stupendous speculation … and strong government … no more State governments, and a consolidated monarchy or vast centralized military despotism.
NOTE: Fourteen years earlier when Lincoln was the legislator criticizing Democratic President Polk and his conduct of the war, Lincoln was NOT arrested.
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Republican (nationalist) Senator Edward D. Baker, of Oregon, makes his proposal for the reconstruction of the Confederate States, arguing that to preserve their republican forms of government, the States should be invaded, and republican governments imposed upon them militarily.
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Subsequent Events:
Authority:
Article I, Section 6, [Clause 1]
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References:
Thomas DiLorenzo, The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War, (Roseville, California: Prima, 2002), 156, 241-42.
William M. Weicek, The Guarantee Clause of the U.S. Constitution, (Ithaca, New York and London: Cornell University Press, 1972), 173n7.
A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774—1875, Congressional Globe, House of Representatives, 37th Congress, 1st Session
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