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“Necessity is the plea of tyrants, and if our Constitution ceases to operate the moment a person charged with its observance thinks there is a necessity to violate it, it is of little value.”
— Aug 23, 2025 06:37PM
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Jonathan Alligood
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From time to time, offers were made to different prisoners to discharge them conditionally. Sometimes an oath of allegiance, which bound the party taking it to support the "United States Government," notwithstanding any action which his State might take, was proposed as the price of his release. This was almost uniformly declined.
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Jonathan Alligood
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The unlawful and oppressive acts of Mr. Lincoln, his advisers, and subordinates, during the war between this Government and that of the Confederate States, will here-after constitute no insignificant portion of the history of there times. As one of the victims of the despotism… I desire to add my testimony to that which has been heretofore furnished, in relation to the outrages perpetrated under his Administration
— Jul 13, 2025 01:36PM
