Then you're saying Davis should have been tried for treason? I agree with that. But I also think that Chase was right on the money in Texas v. White. It's in line with Madison's thinking on the subject.
600,000 plus dead is a joke? You're a very sick man.
Hardly. I was laughing at the "...(Lincoln)ordered the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and the waging of war on noncombatants..." part.
He was indicted for treason by a US court for the district of Virginia. He should have received a fair trial under the US Constitution in which he would have been acquitted.
The nolle prosequi entered by the government in his case is a clear admission that they couldn't successfully convict him of treason, a de facto acquittal.
I was laughing at the "...(Lincoln)ordered the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and the waging of war on noncombatants..." part.
Was he or was he not the Commander in Chief.