outraged by the landingham case. new york democrats held a very famous mass meeting in albany and condemned the president. defending his actions against what he brabd branded by an effort by insurgents, he loved that word, to destroy the union, the constitution and the law all together whether on the battlefield or on the news room, lincoln rejected the idea of a government as he put it "restrained by the same constitution and law from arresting their progress." their sympathizers, he said, per satellite and radared all departments of the government and nearly all community of the people. undercover of liberty of speech, liberty of the press and habeus corpus they hoped to keep on foot among us a most efficient corps of spies, informers, suppliers, aiders and abetters of their cause in 1,000 ways. to lincoln, these disloyal editors were akin to spies and informers. in re-rebuttal, it was called a monstrous hairsy, subversive of liberty and law, and quite intending to the establishment of des pottism. lincoln replied