[lentulusgracchus]

My point is that Davis had no interest in anything in the confederate constitution which might have gotten in his way.

That isn't a point, it's a slander. What is the point of your slander, except to heap obloquy on a man who was called unwillingly to lead a nation in war?

Lincoln took a lot of expedient measures, too -- and he never had so great a provocation. Your typification of Jefferson Davis as a despot is an argument ad hominem, another in your series of "so's your old man" name-calling recriminations. It says nothing about the merits of the South's secession from the United States.

[Non-Sequitur]

What does it say about the southern rebellion if it had to be done at the expense of the rule of law? If Davis couldn't or wouldn't act within his own constitution then it still makes him guilty of crimes greater than those you all accuse Lincoln of.