To: stand watie
actually, it was the chief justice who gave the opinion that since NO TREASON had been committed AND that there was NO prohibition of SECESSION within the Constitution and/or in the US Code, that President Davis would be found NOT GUILTY by a jury of his peers(this even given the fact that the invaders would have CONTROLLED the tribunal!). That would be the same Chief Justice who would later rule the southern acts of secession to be unconstitutional? Now why do I have problems believing your version of the story?
To: Non-Sequitur
NOT my version but that of Professor Reuben Ramsey at Tulane (when i was a grad student LONG ago.)
the POTUS asked the Chief Justice for his opinion on trying President Davis.
the FACTS "do not favor your position" Mr. Minister!
free dixie,sw
282 posted on
10/14/2006 4:07:16 PM PDT by
stand watie
("Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God." - T. Jefferson, 1804)
To: Non-Sequitur
btw, don't you get tired of being an APOLOGIST & (shameLESS)PROPAGANDIST for the LEFTISTS???
free dixie,sw
283 posted on
10/14/2006 4:08:22 PM PDT by
stand watie
("Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God." - T. Jefferson, 1804)
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