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To: GOPcapitalist
There's no "claim" or "may have been" about it. I have given you the specific location of at least eight different Davis speeches and letters that are explicitly indexed as being on the subject of the Confederat Supreme Court.

Nonsense. You have provided nothing. For all we know Davis spoke against the court or mentioned the real Supreme Court. The only quote you have provided is a gratuitous, and no doubt insincere, request that a couth be established. And he never mentioned the matter to the congress again.

743 posted on 11/22/2003 6:08:29 PM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
For all we know Davis spoke against the court or mentioned the real Supreme Court.

As I noted previously, the index to Davis' collected works found online specifically identifies them as the Confederate States supreme court. Thus he could NOT have been talking about the yankee one. As for talking against the court, that is an unreasonable and unfounded assumption for you to make. While one cannot say with certainty that all of those documents advocated it absent a trip to the library to check, one can say that it is more likely than not based upon the fact that he does exactly that in the written record we DO know of right now.

The only quote you have provided is a gratuitous

Nonsense. It is about as explicit as one can get, and to date you have provided absolutely ZERO evidence as to why we should not believe it.

and no doubt insincere

Evidence please?

And he never mentioned the matter to the congress again.

Evidence please? For all you know, one of those 8 other documents could very well have been a letter to Congress.

748 posted on 11/22/2003 7:39:03 PM PST by GOPcapitalist
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To: Non-Sequitur; rustbucket
An interesting description of the federal district court system that DID exist in the CSA:

"Sixteen district courts provided the backbone of the confederate judicial system...Appointed in each district was one judge, one district attorney, one marshall, and one or more clerks of the court. The court staffers included deputy marshals, criers, commissioners, and a few auxilary officers. Most auxilary officers and attendents were paid from monies derived from court fees, a fact which makes it most difficult to estimate their number. Thus, when Confederate jurisdiction was widest, there were sixteen justices, sixteen district attorneys, sixteen marshalls, an estimated fifty-four clerks of court, and a miscellaneous group of criers"

-- From Paul P. Van Riper and Harry N. Scheiber, "The Confederate Civil Service" in Journal of Southern History, 1959

751 posted on 11/22/2003 8:22:24 PM PST by GOPcapitalist
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