Exclusive–O’Donnell: The Original Seditionist, Civil War Democrat Leader Clement Laird Vallandigham
Recent allegations of sedition against members of Congress are not new. During the Civil War, a Democrat member of Congress was convicted of sedition by a military tribunal for urging Union soldiers to disobey “illegal orders” and desert.
![Library of Congress description- _Hon. Clement Laird Vallandigham [_] of Ohio_](https://media.breitbart.com/media/2025/12/Library-of-Congress-description-_Hon.-Clement-Laird-Vallandigham-_-of-Ohio_-420x315.jpeg)





































