Well Kill Us y'all can but.. conquer Us y'all will never do,That's my motto!
“If you bring these [Confederate] leaders to trial it will condemn the North, for by the Constitution secession is not rebellion. Lincoln wanted Davis to escape, and he was right. His capture was a mistake. His trial will be a greater one.”
Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, July 1867 (Foote, The Civil War, Vol. 3, p. 765)
Way too late on that one, Rustabout.
If you bring these [Confederate] leaders to trial it will condemn the North, for by the Constitution secession is not rebellion. Lincoln wanted Davis to escape, and he was right. His capture was a mistake. His trial will be a greater one.
That would be the very same Chief Justice Salmon Chase who ruled the Southern acts of unilateral secession to be illegal not 2 years later in the Texas v White case? Must have changed his mind, huh? </sarcasm>