"With Malice Toward Some : Treason And Loyalty in the Civil War Era" by W. Blair

Description: Few issues created greater consensus among Civil War-era Northerners than the belief that secessionists had committed treason, and that northerners that supported the Southron viewpoint were also committing treachery and treason. The way politicians, soldiers, and civilians dealt with disloyalty varied widely. Citizens often moved more swiftly than federal agents in punishing traitors in their midst, forcing the government to rethink legal practices and definitions north of the Mason-Dixon Line. In reconciling the northern contempt for treachery with a demonstrable record of judicial leniency toward the South, the author illuminates the other ways that northerners punished perceived traitors, including confiscating slaves (without paying the owners for their value), arresting newspaper editors for expressions of free speech (lots of Copperhead publishers), and limiting voting to only demonstrated loyalists. Ultimately, punishment for treason extended well beyond wartime and into the framework of Reconstruction policies, including the construction and implementation of the 14th Amendment. Establishing how treason was defined not just by the Lincoln administration, Congress, and the courts but also by the general public, the author reveals the surprising implications for the North and South alike; implications that are still playing out today. Simply put, what term is correct?- the United States "is" or the United States "are." Is secession legal? Were the Founding Fathers traitors? I

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Location: Bedford, Virginia

End Time: 2024-11-19T03:08:56.000Z

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