“Just because O.J. wasn’t convicted of murder doesn’t mean he didn’t do it.”
O.J. was tried and found not guilty. Davis was arrested for treason but never tried. Federal officials concluded their case was weak and charges were dropped. However, the suggestion that treason by Southerners was at play does help to justify Lincoln’s decision to start a war that killed 600,000.
Which I guess is proof positive that he didn't do it.
Federal officials concluded their case was weak and charges were dropped.
LOL. Of course they did.
However, the suggestion that treason by Southerners was at play does help to justify Lincoln’s decision to start a war that killed 600,000.
Lincoln didn't start the war. Davis did.
Lincoln didn’t want the Slavers war but when it came to him he didn’t shirk his responsibilities. After the war was won he didn’t want lingering animosities - he wished to bind the wounds and go back to being Americans. He had no fire in the belly to pursue treason charges against southerners - even those who had acted in truly treasonous ways.
After his assassination there were those who sought revenge but Andrew Johnson devised a reconstruction plan that largely honored Lincoln’s wishes. His primary goal was to wrest control in the south from the slaver aristocracy to the people. The republicans in congress found ways to circumvent those changes in their continuing efforts to punish the south for its rebellion. And the southern slaver aristocrats found ways to circumvent THOSE changes by imposing Jim Crow laws.