Many people will praise Lincoln, but he in fact destroyed and abolished the Constitution as it was written in 1787. Thereby changing forever the interpretation of the Federal Governments powers to what they are today, A bureaucratic dictatorship.

Under the common interpretation of the Constitution before 1860, No State, or group of States, or the Federal Government itself had the right to dictate to any other State, or States, what that State's internal politic or policy were to be, unless such policies were prohibited by that Constitution.

So why are we surprised that people were jailed for unjust reasons? That is what dictators do. They dictate.