...withal a great mercy." This "giant rebellion" reached into the North itself, Lincoln continued, where "under cover of 'liberty of speech,' 'liberty of the press,' and Habeas corpus,' [the rebels] hoped to keep on foot amongst us a most efficient corps of spies, informers, suppliers,...

...conspiracy aimed at his civil libertarian opponents. The rebels, Lincoln argued, had planned all along "to keep on foot amongst us a most efficient corps of spies, informers, supplyers and aiders and abettors of their cause" under cover of specious cries for liberty of speech,...

...the internal threat behind the lines in the North with stern urgency. Rebel sympathizers, he said, "pervaded all departments of the government and nearly all communities of the people. . . . Under cover of 'Liberty of speech,' 'Liberty of the press,' and 'habeas corpus/ they hoped to...

...arrests. From the outset, Lincoln dealt harshly with "the enemy in the rear" — with what he called "a most efficient corps of spies, informers, suppliers, and aiders and abettors" of the rebellion who took advantage of "Liberty of speech, Liberty of the press and Habeas corpus" to...

...Union, Constitution, and law, all together, the government would, in great degree, be restrained by the same Constitution and law, from arresting their...amongst us a most efficient corps of Spies, informers, supplyers, and aiders and abettors of their cause in a thousand ways. They knew that in times such...

...facts, Lincoln contended that, at the time that he took office, persons sympathetic to secession had "pervaded all departments of the government, and nearly all communities of the people," and that the South relied on this fact and the ability of these sympathizers to subvert the government...

...Union, constitution, and law, all together, the government would, in great degree, be restrained by the same constitution and law, from arresting their...aiders and abettors of their cause in a thousand ways. . . . Yet, thoroughly imbued with a reverence for the guaranteed rights of individuals, I was slow...

...corpus.3 In a speech near the end of the war, Lincoln assessed the influence of "rebel sympathizers." "Under cover of 'Liberty of speech,' 'Liberty of the...and aiders and abettors of their cause in a thousand ways."4 Nine months into Nixon's presidency, antiwar protests were approaching proportions similar...

...blindness of Democrats like Corning to Vallandigham's cynical appeal to civil liberties as a shield for "a most efficient corps of spies, informers, suppliers,...aiders and abettors of their cause in a thousand ways." Could not Corning see that "Ours is a case of rebellion," that "the Constitution is not, in its application,...

...secessionist "sympathizers pervaded all departments of the Government" and "hoped to keep on foot among us a most efficient corps of spies, informers, suppliers, and aiders and abettors of their cause." Although he himself revered "the guaranteed rights of individuals," he reluctantly came to the conclusion...