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Article: Lincoln basher had a problem with endings

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September 18, 2009
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As the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's visit to Dayton is being marked by various local events, an embarrassing truth must be confronted.

Well, "must" might be an exaggeration. Let's just say that confronting it makes for a newspaper column.

The leader of the most anti-Lincoln faction in the North was the sometimes congressman from Dayton. Clement Laird Vallandigham was the leader of the Copperheads, the stauncher anti-war wing of the Democratic Party, whose other wing was also not on board for the war or the fight against slavery.

(Since the Civil War era, the two parties have basically switched positions. Then the Republicans were the more progressive, Northern- based party with, ...

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