[Non-Sequitur]

Here's an easy comparison for you. Did Lincoln refuse to staff an entire branch of government? Like the real Constitution, the confederate constitution called for an executive, a legislative and a judicial branch. Yet in his four years in power Davis never got around to the judicial part, did he? What's a supreme court? It might just get in your way. Lincoln never held the United States Constitution in the contempt that Jefferson Davis held the confederate one. But hey, he was 'pressed' right? Had time to impose a draft, a tariff, staff a cabinet, install an income tax, nationalize business, but couldn't find time for the supreme court the constitution called for. A question of priorities, I guess.

[lentulusgracchus]

A question of priorities, I guess.

Yes, it was.

The Confederacy was born in a state of emergency and progressed to extremity and death. And your sneering at the South, and assigning vile motives to Jefferson Davis for things he did while the South was fighting for its life, and the Southerners to keep from being made into the slaves you keep going on about, doesn't exactly decorate your cause.

If Abe Lincoln was so full of "charity for all" and "malice toward none", why did he suffer a prat like Ben Butler to remain four years in the saddle without sending him home as a concession to the angels of Abe's better nature?

Do you still want to hold a contest about people's high motives?