This is the Tom Hartman program.

Back in 1862, just to frame this, in 1861 you had this declaration of secession from

the Southern States and Lincoln called for a volunteer army of 70,000 people and you

know the Civil War, well Lincoln thought it would be over in a matter of weeks.

Lee not so much and Lee was right on that.

But in July of 1861, after the secession, I mean the secession happened virtually the

same time that Abraham Lincoln was sworn in in March of 1861.

And just a few months later, members of Congress voted on expulsion.

These members of the Senate, now this is just the Senate, I haven't researched the house

on this yet, I just started down this line of thinking this morning.

But in the United States Senate, what they did is they said, you know, these Southern

Senators, James Mason of Virginia, Robert Hunter of Virginia, Thomas Klingman of North Carolina,

Thomas Bragg of North Carolina, James Chestnut of South Carolina, AOP Nicholson of Tennessee,

William Sebastian of Arkansas, Charles Mitchell of Arkansas, John Hempel of Texas and Louis

Wigfall of Texas.

These Senators supported secession.

They were seditious.

They supported overthrowing the legitimate government of the United States, the Abraham Lincoln

administration.

And therefore, they should be expelled from the Senate.

The resolution of expulsion was introduced on July 10th, 1861, the next day, the Senate

voted, and they expelled all those people whose names I just read a moment ago and probably,

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