A hanging offense

Redirected from http://jmw.typepad.com/j_michael_wallers_blog/2007/02/a_hanging_offen.html More controversy erupted this week about the non-quote that’s not from President Abraham Lincoln. It’s based on a story I wrote for Insight magazine in December, 2003, in which I quoted from President Lincoln’s July, 1863 letter that the Union League distributed as a pamphlet later that year. In the letter, President Lincoln … Read more