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An indictment. Of the former President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, who is herein charged with the following high crimes and misdemeanors.

One: That you did ruthlessly provoke a war between the States, which cost some six hundred thousand of my countrymen their lives. Two:

You did silence you critics in the North by hurling them into prison without Benefit of charge or trial.

Shut up. Three:

I said shut up!