[lentulusgracchus]

Sorry, Lincoln will still be remembered as one of the great Presidents and Jeff Davis as a traitor.

Before you call Jeff Davis a traitor, you'd better prove he was one.

Go ahead, prove it. The United States Government couldn't, but perhaps your superior insight will allow you to succeed where they knew better than to try -- and they had the man in prison!

Go ahead, ideologue, make my day.

[fortheDeclaration]

He was fortunate that the North had decided to show mercy to him in order to heal the nation.

Here is the typical legalistic mindset, if a man is not convicted he is not guilty.

So you must think OJ is not a murderer?

[capitan_refugio]

The Congress and the states provided a punishment for traitors the likes of Jefferson Davis, in the 14th Amendment. Davis never again held a position of trust in any government of the United States.

Personally, I think he got off easy.