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To: cowboyway
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.

As it turned out, it was the U.S. Constitution that prevented him being tried at all, leading to his release into well-deserved obscurity.

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.

Hardly. Nolle prosequi is a decision not to proceed. It is not an acquittal, and the government could have proceeded again had they chosen to.

Was he or was he not the Commander in Chief.

Did the confederacy or did the confederacy not initiate the war by bombarding Sumter? It was their war, the death and destruction is on Davis's head.

182 posted on 04/02/2008 6:00:04 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
As it turned out, it was the U.S. Constitution that prevented him being tried at all,

That statement is almost as ridiculous as your statement that the South never seceded and that there never was a Confederacy((((!!))))

into well-deserved obscurity

It's hard to imagine how you could top the above statement but you've somehow managed to do so.

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It is not an acquittal, and the government could have proceeded again had they chosen to.

I said a 'de facto' acquittal, which it was. Nolle prosequi was a nice tidy way for the corrupt yankee government to extricate themselves from the tangled web they had woven and to not have to face the court of world opinion with a public trial.

Did the confederacy or did the confederacy not initiate the war by bombarding Sumter? It was their war, the death and destruction is on Davis's head.

It has been shown on this thread (see post #66) that Lincoln purposely violated agreements with SC in order to commence hostilities. The war, the death and the destruction is solely on disHonest Abe's and the northern sheeples collective heads.

187 posted on 04/02/2008 7:32:32 PM PDT by cowboyway (Did I say that out loud?)
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