“But for political expediency and to quell any lingering Southern resistance to continue the war and ‘’to bind up the nations wounds’’ Lincoln didn’t hang him.”
President Lincoln couldn’t have hanged him. It was impossible. He did not have the opportunity.
By the time President Davis was taken into custody, President Lincoln had passed away. Chronological complexities are just part of what makes your explanation inexplicable.
That is a very interesting comment.
Is that what you call a euphemism?
When Grant was ready to leave for Appomattox Lincoln told him “Let them up easy’’.
For crying out why don’t you get your head out of the clouds and learn some real history?
Chronological contradictions are no problems for people who defend the Northern actions in the Civil War. They are in fact a necessity, for they would have us believe that the war was fought over a goal (ending slavery) which wasn't announced until nearly two years after the war had began.