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Can you show me where they tried Davis and found him guilty of treason?

Technically, the 14th Amendment saved Davis' ass, but in reality, there was little desire on the part of the North to punish confederates once they has surrendered. People wanted to bring the nation back together and hanging southern leaders wouldn't have advanced that agenda. Lee and all of his troops, were given a parole by Grant at Appomattox. Grant followed Lincoln's advice to him to "Let them up easy." Andrew Johnson, a southern man himself, wanted Lee tried. Grant told Johnson he would resign from the army and raise hell in the press if he went after Lee and broke Grant's word. Do you recall Lincoln's 2nd inaugural?

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.

That lunatic stage actor who I saw you praising the other day killed the best friend the south had at that point. Reconstruction would have been much different and better for the south, and for the nation, had Lincoln lived.

What the hell are you talking about? I have never praised Booth. Clearly, you have me confused with someone else pal. Post my comment or retract NOW. Next time you should make sure of what you say before you say it.

I just alluded to Lincoln's 2nd inaugural and how the radical republicans, in their HATRED, extended the war by 12 years! It seems the hatemongers had some malice.

The fact remains that not one southerner was tried for treason. There was no law to support it! You have to cite a law to prove treason in Court. And I firmly believe that the powers that be knew there were in for a helluva legal fight if they tried it! Furthermore, if they had tried Lee, there NEVER WOULD HAVE BEEN PEACE or healing. This is an example of the malice and hatred of Stevens and other radicals in the north.

I will state again. The north committed many evils and atrocities and I listed a couple. Need more?

By the way, my tag line (sic semper tyrannis) is Virginia's state motto. There is no connection with that murderer Booth's latin exclamation as he jumped to the stage. I just don't like tyrants. Lincoln made mistakes but he was no tyrant. There is much to admire about Lincoln. Unlike you, I can see the big picture. I can see the good and evil on both sides. The war was a judgment on the entire nation. If the founders had dealt with slavery properly in 1787, there would have been no civil war. They made a mistake. Men are basically evil, but can be virtuous if guided by a Fear of God.