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To: BroJoeK

Deny you feel it would have been better and justice served if Lee ad Davis would have been hanged for treason. Yes or No. Quit dodging the question.


108 posted on 12/20/2015 7:14:57 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va
central_va: "Deny you feel it would have been better and justice served if Lee ad Davis would have been hanged for treason.
Yes or No.
Quit dodging the question."

I've dodged nothing, have answered your questions more than once, at great length.

To repeat: the US Constitution defines "treason", authorizes Congress to set penalties and provides for presidential pardons.

After the Civil War, RE Lee was not arrested or punished in any way, excepting denied the right to vote.
Jefferson Davis was arrested and indicted for treason, held in confinement for two years and then released on $100,000 bail (paid by wealthy Northerners like Horace Greely, Cornelius Vanderbilt and Gerrit Smith), before receiving blanket amnesty-pardon from President Johnson on December 28, 1868.

My opinion is that is exactly the way such matters should have been handled.
I also have no problem with Southern towns raising up monuments to their Confederate heroes.

And, just as I noted before, after the war most of those Confederate leaders, including Davis, urged their fellow Southerners to remain loyal to the United States.
That seems to me far more valuable to the nation, and to justice itself, than any possible satisfaction taken from seeing those leaders hanged.

Short answer: yes, I agree with President Andrew Johnson's blanket pardons of all Confederate leaders.

109 posted on 12/20/2015 7:59:25 AM PST by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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