Southron paranoia in full bloom again, I see. Lincoln did not ignore the Supreme Court. Issues affecting the Union conduct appeared before the court throughout the war, witness the Prize Cases that Walt talks about so much. People sentenced in the North by the military tribunals still had the chance to appeal their case all the way to the Supreme Court, witness Ex Parte Milligan. But down south the people that Davis tossed in the hoosegow stayed there and rotted because there was no legal system, there was no appeal, there was no protection against abuse by the Davis regime.
...which Congressman in his right mind would stand against Lincoln when he could be jailed and brought before a Military Tribunal on some trumped up charge?
That is nonsense and you know it, but you need something to justify your support of Davis and his actions. No doubt you are about to trot out Clemment Vallandigham to support your case. Never mind the fact that Vallandigham was a former congressman and deserved trial and punishment. Never mind the fact that Davis himself tossed John Minor Botts, a former congressman from Virginia, into jail for the duration for speaking out against the confederate government. That was OK because the south was nation-building, is that it?
Article 1 Section 9 stated that only Congress with the approval of the Supreme Court could suspend the Writ of Habeas Corpus.
I question somethime whether you have ever even read the Constitution some times. That section does not say that only congress can suspend habeas corpus and it doesn't say that they need Supreme Court approval.
Thereupon Lincoln issued a writ of arrest to US Marshal Lamon to apprehend Taney. Lamon never served it, but it was issued!
No he didn't.
Lincoln shut down all newpapers that didn't agree with his war, and spoke out against it!
This is much more descriptive of southern actions than Northern. Lincoln was bedeviled by newspapers throughout the war, from Greely on down. None of those were shut down.
He violated the Constitution in declaring war against the South (something only Congress has the power to do per the Constitution).
Again, pure BS. You declare war against other nations, not rebellious parts of your own. No declaration of war was required.
So on that note of calling Jeff Davis the tyrant, you must prove that Lincoln wasn't one.
I need do nothing of the sort. You and your ilk have been calling Lincoln 'tyrant' since I started posting here, yet none of you offer any evidence that Davis wasn't one. On the contrary, I point out Davis's crimes and I'm criticized for trying to change the subject. Like I said, Jefferson Davis is the south's dirty little secret because every time you turn over a rock another one if his abuses slithers out. Y'all want to keep those rocks right where they are.
