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Chester A. Arthur, a fixture of New York's patronage system, did a 180 to our collective benefit in 1883.

The outlook for the re-nomination and re-election of President Abraham Lincoln does not appear promising. The nearly three-year-old Civil War continues to rage and many Northerners shake their heads in disbelief as their sons continue to die by the thousands each month on Southern battlefields. They doubt Republican Lincoln’s ability to bring hostilities to a peaceful close. Most leaders in the Republican Party now say that the party is not strong enough alone to re-nominate Lincoln so they form a Union Party with Republicans and War Democrats who support the president and his war policies....

Spread the love The question dealing with the press is not something new. Matthew Lyon was the first person to be put on trial for violating the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, after publishing criticism of President John Adams. The Sedition Act of 1798 criminalized the “writing, printing, uttering or publishing [of] any false, scandalous and malicious writing or writings about the government of the United States.” Indeed, Trump could have and should have charged people from the media who clearly violated that Act. Lyon was sentenced to four months in jail. While imprisoned, he was ele...