Here is a start...while I look for the exact quote:
http://www.geocities.com/confederate_cause/thecause-secession3.htm
"Davis longed for his day in court to make the case for the Confederate Cause---to prove in a court of law that he was not guilty of treason and that the Confederate States had the right to secede. The best attorneys in the nation volunteered their services pro bono. It would have been the "trial of the century" and reporters from around the world would have been present. The United States government realized how flimsy their case was. There was no way they could risk a trial. The acquittal of Jefferson Davis would undo the propaganda of the U.S. government and show the world that the Confederate Cause was right. The trial was canceled and the man Dishonest Abe called a "traitor" was released. Denied the opportunity to clear his own name and that of all Confederate patriots in court, Davis expressed his case in his own two volume book , The Rise and Fall of the Conferate Government."
And what backs up the claim that, "The United States government realized how flimsy their case was. There was no way they could risk a trial." Both the Attorney General and the Federal Circuit Court judge responsible were eager to bring the matter to trial. The major sticking point throughout was Chief Justice Chase, first because Davis was in military custody and later because of the 14th Amendment.
...and the man Dishonest Abe called a "traitor" was released...
No bias here, is there? Still, idiotic name calling and outright lying does not advance your case. I am not aware of a time when Abraham Lincoln called Jefferson Davis a traitor. Perhaps you can find that quote as well?