1863 – Landmark Civil War Speech by John A. Bingham, Congressman from Ohio, castigating Border State politicians and Copperheads for their active opposition to President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation
Washington DC: 1863. Pamphlet. John Armor Bingham was closely aligned with the Radical Republicans, although some historians maintain that his positions fell somewhat in between their and the more moderate Unionists. He was active in the abolition movement and maintained that it was the South who manipulated the Constitution to..... More