James Ford Rhodes (18481927). History of the Civil War, 18611865
1917. an unfriendly attitude toward the recruitment of the army,
for political prisoners, for persons suspected of any disloyal
practice, the privilege did not exist. It was suspended for one
year, ten months and twenty-one days by Executive assumption and
for the rest of the period by the authorization of Congress. The
provocation for the use of arbitrary power was, all things
considered, about equal in the Confederacy and the Union. In the
Union the disloyal secret societies were larger and more
dangerous, and the public criticism of the administration more
copious and bitter. There was, too, the organized political
party which made a focus for the opposition and developed
Vallandigham, who had no counterpart at the South. But these
considerations are balanced by the circumstance that in the
South was the seat of war which was never but for brief periods
moved north of Mason and Dixons line and the Ohio river. Civil
administration is everywher