"About The Dr. Darwin Kelley has lectured at Huntington (Ind.) College, teaches history at Wayne High School in the Fort Wayne Community Schools, and for many years planned programs for the Huntington County Historical Society. He received his Ph.D. from Indiana University. He is an emeritus member of the Organization of American Historians, the author of U.S. Lawyer and Leader, 1868-1965, and other writings on historical subjects. Dr. Kelley was born in Huntington in 1912, where he now lives. He and Mrs. Kelley are the parents of four children, Kathy, Sylvia, and Brooks. His wife is the former Mary Lucile Wilson." [from back of jacket] "War---Civil Rights---States' Rights---Political Extremists---Controversial Leaders---each day press headlines sounded their strife-torn messages to the public. The time was not the recent past but more than a century ago, when the Civil War lacerated the nation. Abraham Lincoln, long revered in American history, was then a "controversial" figure with a full quota of enemies not only in the South but in the Union as well. The most vocal of these was Lambdin P. Milligan, a prominent Huntington, Indiana, lawyer and chairman of the Huntington County Democratic party. This book, an enlightening account of Milligan's staunch opposition to the Civil War and Lincoln, holds relevance to the issues of our present day. Milligan, a man of courage, high principles and firmly grounded in constitutional law, was also a fiery orator. Basing his convictions on the Constitution, he held that since the thirteen original colonies as sovereign states had voluntarily united together in a union of sovereign states, they could ipso facto as sovereign states withdraw or secede from this union. The Constitution provided no explicit provision to the contrary. As the camage of war intensified, and as Milligan continued his invective-laden speeches against it and Lincoln's administration, he became an object of fear and hate......" [from flaps]
