{"id":3962,"date":"2011-06-13T18:24:30","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T23:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/?p=3962"},"modified":"2011-06-13T13:22:48","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T18:22:48","slug":"revival-of-the-sedition-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2011\/06\/13\/revival-of-the-sedition-law\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cRevival of the Sedition Law\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> One hundred fifty years ago today<\/a> the Fayetteville (NC) Observer<\/em> published excerpts<\/a> from the New York Commercial Advertiser<\/em> and Richmond (VA) Dispatch<\/em> to show how \u201cit [was] criminal now again\u2026 to speak [ill] of\u201d President Abraham Lincoln<\/a> in northern states. As the Commercial Advertiser<\/em> explained, a merchant had been arrested in New York City<\/a> for \u201cusing seditious language, and making scandalous assertions in regard to the character of the President of the United States and some members of his family.\u201d While at first \u201che claimed\u2026 to speak from personal knowledge,\u201d the merchant later admitted that \u201chis information was derived from Southern papers.\u201d After \u201ca reprimand and warning,\u201d authorities let him leave the city. The excerpt from the Richmond (VA) Dispatch<\/em>, however, focused on conditions in Washington DC<\/a>. The Dispatch<\/em> had heard shocking stories from those who had “just arrived here from Washington” and condemned the Lincoln administration for the way in which they apparently treated some southerners.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026numbers of men and women are confined in the basement rooms of the Capital as suspected persons either from the South, or who sympathize with the South. The tyrant Lincoln has the citizens arrested without form of law, gives them no trial, and in some cases not even deigns to let them know the cause of their arrest. The despotism and terrorism of the worst days of the French Revolution did not exceed this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some southerners in Washington were apparently so concerned that they sent letters to friends and family in Fayetteville<\/a> “without signatures.” While \u201crelatives of course knew from whom [the letters] came,\u201d the Observer<\/em> noted that \u201cthe writer\u2026 had not dared to sign his name.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One hundred fifty years ago today the Fayetteville (NC) Observer published excerpts from the New York Commercial Advertiser and Richmond (VA) Dispatch to show how \u201cit [was] criminal now again\u2026 to speak [ill] of\u201d President Abraham Lincoln in northern states. As the Commercial Advertiser explained, a merchant had been arrested in New York City for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,171],"tags":[4759],"class_list":["post-3962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war-1861-1865","category-historic-periodicals","tag-laws-litigation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3962"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3980,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962\/revisions\/3980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}