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I've seen other accounts that it was in September.

I was just curios to see how you were parsing. I wondered whether it would be that Lincoln did not actually arrest them himself or that it was not the entire Assembly.

Had 35 members of the Alabama legislature advocated taking the state out of the confederacy and back into the Union do you think that the actions of the Davis regime would have been any different? Be honest now.

I honestly don't know for sure, but being it was during war they probably would have done the same thing. Then again Davis always wished he had the same powers that Lincoln did - to act unilaterally -- so that he could direct the ship of state. He felt that during this war if he could do so it would make sure the Confederacy victory. I am well aware of the argument that Davis indeed had the same powers. But the Confederacy tombstone was to read "Died of a Theory". What ever was the facts, Davis did not believe he had them.

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I was just curios to see how you were parsing. I wondered whether it would be that Lincoln did not actually arrest them himself or that it was not the entire Assembly.

Well I'm sorry that accuracy offends you, especially when it collides with your agenda. The simple truth of the matter is that Paige was wrong when she said the legislature was arrested. Only a minority was, and they were released. And of course Lincoln did not arrest them himself, or would you have us believe that he personally kicked down the door and slapped the cuffs on them? If so, then that would be silly.

Then again Davis always wished he had the same powers that Lincoln did - to act unilaterally -- so that he could direct the ship of state.

Why didn't he? Lincoln had his actions reviewed by the Supreme Court throughout the course of the rebellion. Jefferson Davis didn't have that problem since there was no confederate supreme court, even though the confederate constitution required one. Nothing stopped Davis from acting without authority, declaring martial law, seizing private property without compensation, enacting taxes and tariffs, and what have you. Why there are some who would have us believe that Davis was prepared to end slavery in exchange for European recognition, in spite of how ridiculous that idea may seem and regardless of the fact that under the confederate constitution he had not the power to do so. But Davis had no interest in what was legal and what was not.