WoT The Telegraph and Sensation Newspapers April 8, 1861 - Fake News.

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[FONT=&quot]There is no link to this. I transcribed this from an old newspaper. Not much has changed with the press in 157 years.
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[FONT=&quot]Savannah Republican – April 8, 1861

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[FONT=&quot]The Telegraph and Sensation Newspapers.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]We think the time has arrived for the press, at least the honest portion of it, to enter a solemn protest against the frauds and abuses that are put upon the public the agency of telegraph dispatches. They are not only notoriously deceiving the people, but they are bringing journalism into disrepute and the telegraph into contempt. Nobody knows when to believe what they read in that department of the newspaper, and by common consent, and for very good reason we may add, the world is coming to believe nothing coming through that channel, until it is positively confirmed through the mails.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]The Associated Press who collate news and furnish it over the wires to the papers, at a very high cost, are in great part responsible for this imposition, which is now become intolerable. It originated with the fast daily press of the Northern cities, which, anxious to get ahead of their competitors, are willing to receive just anything that was sent them, and before a fact transpired, would publish a dozen guesses and conjectures about it, all in the form of positive assertions, trusting form some of them to turn out to be true.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]The New York Herald, and other journals of that class, make it a practice to publish everything that is sent to them, without regard to its source, or whether it has any source at all or not. The only condition of its admission being that it contains something startling or scandalous, that will the world agog, and cause the people to inquire for the Herald, etc. To meet the demand of such newspaper, the associated press has followed the example set it by other correspondents, and the evil has progressed so far the telegraphic column of a public journal is now set down as a tissue of lies. We have all sorts of vague rumors and speculations, picked up in the street, around the hotels and in the gutters, sent over the wires at a heavy expense to the publishers; and hardly a day comes when a positive declaration on some important matter is not made, and within twenty-four hours as positively reversed. And for all this, half the world, who know no better, are blaming the newspapers, and saying they are no longer to be believed.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Nor are the newspapers, a part of them at least, though we hope a very few, free from guild in this systematic fraud upon the popular credulity. The class of which we speak are not numerous at the South, and yet there are some which, for want of more solid merit, seek to build up a reputation with sensation dispatches and other ingenious contrivances to startle their readers. For this purpose they continue to employ correspondents who have often and again deceived and misled their subscribers, and we have known some of them, when their correspondent fails to come up fully to the sensation mark, by startling headings, positive perversion of the language and clear meaning of a dispatch, and sometimes by suppressing distasteful portions of it, get up in their offices the requisite amount of humbug for a day’s consumption.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Now, we enter our solemn protest against all this system of misrepresentation, wherever it may originate or be endorsed. It is an insult to truth, a fraud upon the public, and a dishonor to a noble profession. The people of all classes look to the press for light and truth; they form opinions, and regulate their action, by its teachings; and the journalist who keep them in the dark by suppressing the truth, or lead them astray by the promulgation of what he knows to be false, should be lashed with a whip of scorpions from the position which he abuses and degrades.[/FONT]

 

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And they think Trump is bad. No President in the history of the universe has ever, EVER treated the press in this manner. And Lincoln is the best President EVER.

Constitutional Violation: Amendment One. Freedom of Speech Denied. Vallandigham Imprisoned in Ohio.


“From the beginning to the end of these proceedings law and justice were set at naught;…the President should have rescinded the sentence and released Vallandigham:…a large portion of the Republican press of the east condemned Vallandigham’s arrest and the tribunal before which he was arraigned.”[1] James Ford Rhodes, historian and industrialist from Ohio

Clement L. Vallandigham was born July 29, 1820, in New Lisbon, Ohio. He was Scots-Irish on his mother’s side (Laird) and Flemish Huguenot on his father’s side (Van Landegham). Vallandigham was educated at New Lisbon Academy and Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. He built a respected law practice and became a popular political speaker. His qualifications helped open the door for his election in 1845 as the Ohio State legislature’s youngest member. Vallandigham admired Southern character and honor; there was a personal aspect as well because the South (Stafford, Virginia) was part of his family lineage. He opposed a strong central government and slavery, but felt the Federal government should not interfere where it existed.

Vallandigham was a Jeffersonian States’ Rights Democrat who believed in interpreting the Constitution as it was written. He publicly denounced the Radical Republicans and opposed the 1857 Tariff. In a February 24, 1859, address to the House of Representatives he stated his belief that the legislation “was peculiarly a manufacturer’s tariff and a highly protective tariff too…He then referred to the manner in which the interests of his constituents and the farmers, especially the wool-growers of Ohio, had been disregarded in the Act of 1857.”[2] Somewhat ironically, the 1857 agreement gave some degree of relief to the South and ruffled the feathers of Northern industrialists who almost immediately lobbied for an increase in tariff rates.[3]

Comments by Vallandigham during the early stages of the war likely put him on the wrong side of the Lincoln Administration. In a February 3, 1862, speech delivered on the floor of the House of Representatives, Vallandigham criticized the Lincoln Administration’s Legal Tender Act. From an economic and historical standpoint, he saw the creation of a fiat money system, i.e., greenbacks backed by nothing, as a risky maneuver relative to helping finance the war on the South.

Vallandigham accurately predicted this Act would result in ”… high prices, extravagant speculation, enormous sudden fortunes, immense fictitious wealth, general insanity. These belong to all inordinate and excessive paper issues.”[4]

During the war, Vallandigham served as U.S. Representative from Ohio, which was part of a military district that included Indiana and Illinois. The district was under the command of Ambrose Burnside, a Union general with a record of mediocrity as a field commander.

Vallandigham was labeled as a Peace Democrat and a Copperhead as he espoused the importance of individual liberty, constitutional government, and the dangers of increased centralization. His vocal criticism of the war against the South made many enemies.

Vallandigham was troubled by the Lincoln Administration’s claim of changing the goal of the war from preservation of the Union to suddenly being a quest to end slavery. He voiced his concerns to Congress on January 14, 1863:

The war for the Union is in our hands, a most bloody and costly failure. The President confessed it on the September 22…War for the Union was abandoned; war for the Negro openly began…I trust I am not “discouraging enlistments.” If I am, then arrest Lincoln and Stanton and Halleck… But can you draft again? …Ask Massachusetts… Ask not Ohio, nor the Northwest. She thought you were in earnest and gave you all, all-more than you demanded… But ought this war to continue? I answer, No, not a day, not an hour. What then? Shall we separate? Again I answer no, No, no, no! What then? …Stop fighting. Make an armistice. Accept at once the friendly foreign mediation and begin the work of reunion, we shall yet escape.[5]

Vallandigham recognized military failure as a catalyst for this diversionary political tactic, arising on the heels of several Northern military defeats and increasing apprehension that a foreign power (beyond the Vatican’s vague affirmation) might officially recognize the Confederacy. According to Illinois politician and U.S. soldier John A. Logan (aka Black Jack Logan), there was a gathering at Springfield, Illinois, (Lincoln’s home) of almost 100,000 Vallandigham, Anti-War, Peace Democrats voicing their opposition to the invasion of the South and calling for an end to the war.

On April 13, 1863, Burnside issued General Order Number 38, which stated that free speech would not be tolerated if that speech were in defense of the South. Burnside felt Lincoln’s September 24, 1862, suspension of habeas corpus gave him the authority to issue his order.

During a May 1, 1863, speech, Vallandigham described the Union war as “wicked, cruel, and unnecessary.”[6] He went on to say this “was a ‘war for the purpose of crushing out liberty and erecting a despotism’”[7] and he called for Lincoln’s removal from office. Unknown to Vallandigham, Burnside had sent two captains, dressed in civilian clothing, to Mount Vernon, Ohio, to listen to this speech where he ridiculed the unconstitutional activities of “King Lincoln”[8] and publicly denounced Burnside’s order. In retaliation for his comments, officers surrounded, and then broke into Vallandigham’s house at 2:00 A.M. on May 5th. He was arrested and sent to face trial before a military commission.

Vallandigham was charged with violation of Burnside’s General Order Number 38, by expressing disloyal opinions that weakened government efforts to suppress a rebellion. He was also accused of illegally discouraging military enlistments. Though military commissions are not designed to handle civilians and the regular civilian courts were in operation at the time, Vallandigham was placed before a military tribunal (based on Lincoln’s suspension of habeas corpus). Trying a civilian in a military court typically indicates the verdict has been predetermined or as Daniel Webster, an opponent of such activities, stated, “military courts are organized to convict.”[9] Lincoln favored the use of military courts for civilians in such circumstances.

Much more at link, including the footnotes:

https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/blog/an-act-of-tyranny/

They guy was eventually exiled from the Union. Wonder how Acosta would feel if he was.

I personally feel Trump didn't do anything wrong, and Acosta was WAY out of order, and extremely rude, and deserves to be out of the WH press corp. The point of all this is to compare how Trump is dealing with the media, and how Lincoln was dealing with the media.

Jefferson had a time with them too, and wouldn't allow an interview, unless the paper corrected errors in reporting. Saw that on Foxnews no link.

 

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Photo of Clement Laird Vallandingham (Lincolns's nemesis) - minus the beard and with shorter hair, this could just be Jim Acosta!!