To most Americans he is remembered as the Great Liberator who had wiped away the blot of Slavery from America's "Pure Republican Robe". Nevertheless, many in his own time decried his actions during the Civil War as tyrannical. Today we are honored to discuss emergencies, the Fighting Democracy, Habeas Corpus and the relative merits of Kentucky and Virginia with Mr. Jeffrey Tyler Syck of the University of Virginia.  Episode Art: "Extremes Meet" a Cartoon comparing Lincoln and Czar Alexander II of Russia, claiming both are autocrats. British "Punch" Magazine, Oct. 24th, 1863