[TexConfederate1861]

The quote was from Samuel Chase himself.....so now you are going to deny what he said?

Ludicrous!

[Non-Sequitur]

Deny that Chief Justice Chase believed that secession was not legal? Why would I do that when he made it clear on a number of occasions that unilateral secession as practiced by the southern states violated the Constitution. But the evidence is clear that the Chief Justice's objections to the trial if Davis and the rest of the gang lay in 5th Amendment concerns and not out of any belief that they acted properly. By all measures they could have been tried and convicted of treason, if not for the 14th Amendment.