[rebelyell]

Slavery was a horrible institution. I will not defend it.

Now, can you tell me why neither Jefferson Davis, his entire cabinet, the Confederate Congress and military leaders of the CSA were not charged and tried for treason?

[Grand Old Partisan]

President Lincoln wanted Jefferson Davis to be allowed to escape to Europe. It was President Andrew Johnson, a Democrat and arch-enemy of the Radical Republicans, who imprisoned Davis for two years.

It was firm Republican policy that there be no treason trials for anyone. The Republicans wanted "malice toward none, charity toward all," while Andrew Johnson had vowed to hang "Jefferson Davis and his pirate crew [his words]".