Post-Congressional Activities
After General Ambrose E. Burnside issued General Order Number 38, warning that the "habit of declaring sympathies for the enemy" would not be tolerated in the Military District of Ohio, Vallandigham gave a major speech on May 1, 1863, charging that the war was being fought not to save the Union but to free the slaves by sacrificing the liberty of all Americans to "King Lincoln." Burnside also suppressed circulation of the Chicago Times.
The authority for Burnside’s order came from the proclamation of September 24, 1862, when President Lincoln suspended habeas corpus and made discouraging enlistments, drafts or any other disloyal practices subject to martial law and trial by military commissions.
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