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And when the Supreme Court Justice Roger Taney had the temerity to disagree and even castigate Lincoln's actions in 1861, then Lincoln had a writ of arrest issued for Taney. Not to mention the closing down of several Northern newspapers who didn't subscribe to Lincoln's view on the war in 1861. Uhhhhhhhhh ... I believe that is a distinct violation of the 1st Amendment ... you know ... FREEDOM OF THE PRESS! You saying Jeff Davis was a tyrant while trying to defend a despot (correct spelling of the word) is a case of the pot calling the kettle black. You see the Confederate government was brand new and still in its infancy (they're called growing pains old son) ... the Federal government was 80 years old and running on well oiled skids. Given time I'm sure the Confederacy would've adhered to all facets of its Constitution.

And while you're bullsh*ttin, you spoke of Davis' siezing private property for the war!? What about what the Federals did when out in the field? "Foraging" is called seizure of private property. Confiscation of horses for the military is called seizure of private property. And lets not forget the thousands of dollars in private property looted by the Yankee invaders and sent northward and to Kansas ... which wasn't for the war effort! So don't try to run that tired assed argument you're stumping on. Oh yeaaaaaaaaaahhh ... how many businesses were shut down in the North if they didn't go along with Lincoln's great scheme? Uhhhhhhhhh ... those pesky newspapers ... that too was private property!

Yes, well Jefferson Davis didn't have to worry about minor issues such as supreme court decisions, did he? After all he didn't bother to appoint a supreme court. Which made it handy when he shut down newspapers and jailed dissidents. He was good at that, too. On a per capita basis the confederacy locked up more political prisoners than Lincoln is accused of doing. Little things like a lack of a justice system didn't bother Davis. And why should it? He knew exactly what he was doing. As he himself said, "...the true and only test is to inquire whether the law is intended to and calculated to carry out the object...If the answer be in the affirmative, the law is constitutional." The ends justifies the means. Karl Marx had nothing on him. So your protest that the confederacy might someday have actually adhered to it's constitution is ridiculous. It just got in Jeff's way.

The confederate army foraged quite liberally during their forays up North but that wasn't what I was talking about. I was talking about theft from his own population. The Davis placed a levy on all agricultural produce for the war effort. Imagine, the poor slob in the confederate army, can't make enough to feed his family what with run away inflation and all, and Davis steals a percentage of what his family is raising in an attempt to keep from starving. Lincoln never tried anything like that. When it comes to tyranny old Jeff wrote the book.

And when the Supreme Court Justice Roger Taney had the temerity to disagree and even castigate Lincoln's actions in 1861, then Lincoln had a writ of arrest issued for Taney.

That has never been proven. It is just part of the neo-reb rant.

Walt

You see the Confederate government was brand new and still in its infancy (they're called growing pains old son) ...

I find it interesting that in the 6 weeks or so before Davis started the war he had time to staff a cabinet, which was not a constitutional requirement but didn't have time to create a supreme court, which was a constitutional requirement. He had time to create an army general staff and an army of 100,000 men, but not create the third branch of government that the constitution called for. During the first two months of the war Davis had time to institute a protective tariff but still no justice system. During the first year of the war Davis had time to mismanage the war effort, institute conscription, force soldiers to serve past their enlistment but no time to focus on a court system. The only possible explanation is that a court would just have gotten in his way.

It's interesting to note that Judah Benjamin, the so-called 'Brains of the Confederacy", spent most of his service in the confederate cabinet in the two most worthless offices in it. He was Attorney General for a government which did not give a damn about justice, and Secretary of State for a government that did not have diplomatic relations with a single country. Talk about easy money.