Wether Abe did or not is not the issue. There are certainly enough Northern Yankee types that called Jeff Davis a traitor LONG after his death.
Chase knew that if Jefferson Davis was tried in VIRGINIA by a jury of his peers, they would NOT have been able to convict. That was his real concern.
But that is not what your post said. The exact quote was, "The trial was canceled and the man Dishonest Abe called a "traitor" was released." Lincoln never said that. And if your source will lie about that, then what else will they lie about?
Chase knew that if Jefferson Davis was tried in VIRGINIA by a jury of his peers, they would NOT have been able to convict. That was his real concern.
Yeah, so you keep saying. Had Davis gone on trial he would have been convicted. Do you honestly think that jury packing is a modern invention, or that the prosecution would have taken any chances on who sat on the jury?