They knew it was going to be a long discussion, and because of the Federal blockade, the South no longer had enough deoderant to go around.
It's up to you to disprove it. I won't accept less than six sets of sworn testimony.
I. EVIDENCE SUPPORTIVE OF THE CONTENTION THAT DAVIS DESIRED A COURT:
1. Davis explicitly called for a court in his 1862 State of the Union Address and said so in the plainest of English.
2. Davis' Secretary of State Judah Benjamin pushed Congress to pass the court bill. This is reported in the Charleston Mercury on Dec. 24, 1863.
3. Congress repeatedly took up the court bill from its introduction through 1864, blocking or voting it down each time for the explicit purpose of restraining Davis' power to appoint judges. This is documented in the congressional record, the newspapers, and virtually every good historical account of the CSA congress.
4. Davis enthusiastically filled the Confederate District Court benches with appointments almost immediately after their creation by Congress. His first appointment was Alexander Clayton on May 11, 1861 and they continued throughout the war, filling 16 benches total. If Davis was opposed to creating a judicial system, it stands to reason that he would have hesitated in filling these benches or even left them vacant but he did not.
5. Davis' collected works contain at least 8 other documents with explicit references to the issue of creating a confederate supreme court. In light of the other evidence it is more likely than not that they are supportive of creating a court rather than opposed to doing so.
II. EVIDENCE SUPPORTIVE OF THE CONTENTION THAT DAVIS OPPOSED A COURT:
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Those are the facts that have been put forth in this debate to date. See the disparity, non-seq?
Could you meet the same standard?