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CBW:A difference without a distinction, candy. The court let the case die because they didn't want a trial that would expose disHonest Abe and his criminal government. Even northerners were realizing that Lincoln was wrong. When are you False Causers going to wake up from your fantasy past?

Could you clarify what you mean when you say, "the court", pardner? Or is the above just "dicta"? Also, is there a precedent for posthumously charging someone with "War Crimes"? Poor Abe has been being raked over the coals ever since he was shot in the back of the head. Couldn't charges of war crimes as easily have been brought against any of the "co-conspirators" in your imaginary criminal government of Lincoln's?

CBW:Why is it fascinating that Lee would be called as a witness? He was the commander of the Army of Northern Virginia and had spent a lot of time in Richmond as Davis' right hand man. You False Causers desperately grasp and the slightest of little straws...........

When Davis was arrested, it was because President Johnson (a Southerner, specifically picked by mr Bad Guy Lincoln as his new vice-president) put out a bounty for his arrest as a suspect in the plot to assassinate Lincoln. That is why Davis was arrested by the military and held in chains in a dungeon by the military to await a military court trial. As the true facts of just who was involved in the assassination came to light, Davis was delivered after two years into the hands of the public court system. As we know, it ended up in the US Supreme Court, where the Double Jeopardy (Davis had already been punished by Amendment 14) option was applied and the case dismissed (by the SCOTUS). You don't find it fascinating that Robert E Lee was involved? It was news to me. Perhaps I misunderstood that you were meaning to imply that Davis' case was summarily thrown out, without going to court because it would have proved Lincoln a War Criminal.

BTW, you never did answer my question. Very telling.

And just what, pray tell, does that verily tell you? My first intention was to give you the "silent treatment". Could you tell? But I couldn't keep it going. Sorry sweetheart, could you please repeat the question?

Poor Abe has been being raked over the coals

If there is any justice in this world "Poor Abe" is being raked over the coals even as we speak.

ever since he was shot in the back of the head

Humanely put down like the rabid dog he was.

As the true facts of just who was involved in the assassination came to light, Davis was delivered after two years into the hands of the public court system.

You're leaving out that northerners themselves were getting tired of Davis' mistreatment. They were also becoming more vocal about the unconstitutional acts perpetrated on them during the war by the Lincoln Regime.

As we know, it ended up in the US Supreme Court, where the Double Jeopardy (Davis had already been punished by Amendment 14) option was applied and the case dismissed (by the SCOTUS).

Interesting turn of events for the feds:

Since two famous special counsels had told the government its case was a loser, finally, none other than the Chief Justice, in a quirk of Constitutional manipulation, devised an idea to avoid a trial without vindicating the South. His amazing solution was little short of genius. The Fourteenth Amendment had been adopted, which provided that anyone who had engaged in insurrection against the United States and had at one time taken an oath of allegiance (which Davis had done as a U.S. Senator) could not hold public office. The Bill of Rights prevents double jeopardy, so Davis, who had already been punished once by the Fourteenth Amendment in not being permitted to hold public office, couldn't be tried and punished again for treason. Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase secretly passed along his clever argument to Davisâ€™s counsel, Charles Oâ€™Connor, who then made the motion to dismiss. The Court took the motion under consideration, passing the matter on to the Supreme Court for determination.

Well, candy, it's the same question I ask all you False Causers: do you believe that keeping the union together is more important that freedom? Now quit being a punk and answer the question or go back to your womanish silent treatment.