Abraham Lincoln’s Secretary of State William Seward once boasted, “I can touch the bell at my right hand... and order the arrest of a man... and no power on earth save that of the President can release him.” This massive volume documents the arrest and imprisonment without trial of Northern judges, Congressmen, ministers, and even women, and exposes Lincoln's utter disregard for the Constitution and the rights of the people of both North and South.

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