5-6-1863: “That the fundamental principles which distinguish the present administration are based upon ignorance and wickedness . . . In attempting to abridge the freedom of speech and of the press, to deprive the people of the right to keep and bear arms. . . .

The Indiana State Sentinel, “That the fundamental principles which distinguish the present administration are based upon ignorance and wickedness, and an entire aversion to the doctrine that “governments are instituted among men, deriving their just power from the consent of the poverned.” In attempting to abridge the freedom of speech and of the press, to deprive the people of the right to keep and bear arms. . . . That we utterly condemn the blundering policy of the Administration, which is desolating the land and blighting our National honor…”, May 6, 1863"

   What makes this truly amusing, is that it was written by democrats.