[WhiskeyPapa]

"They have cast off their allegiance and made war on their Government, and are nonetheless enemies because they are traitors."

Think about it Walt.

I don't need to think about it and I don't need to prove squat to you. They were traitors because the Supreme Court -said- they were traitors.

Walt

[4CJ]

They were traitors because the Supreme Court -said- they were traitors.

And every decision by the US Supreme Court is perfect and unfailing? Then you support the Dred Scott decision?

Justice Grier had his own opinion about the actions of the Confederacy - but the parties in question were never tried and convicted of treason.

Grier also notes that the Supreme Court had previously held that in case of civil war "[e]ach party is therefore deemed by us a belligerent nation, having, so far as concerns us, the sovereign rights of war.'"

In the Prize Cases Grier holds that the Confederacy is considered a nation, and in his dissent in Texas v. White, he asserts that the Confederate state of Texas is not a member of the Union.