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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.

'But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.'

Nowhere does this phrase from the Declaration of Independence say what kind of a government they had to set up. But lets move on ... you're just pissed because Lincoln waged an unjust and illegal war on the seceding Southern States and you can't disprove what I have posted before. Historians have researched the information ... and it is there! You and Walt ought to form your own little history company and call it "Dummies about Lincoln". Get the book I mentioned to you earlier, read it well, and then get back to me. By the way, its an out of print book but you can still obtain it, it was published in 1976 during the bicentennial.