Again, you base your judgment on one man. If for instance he would of said something to the contrary, you probably would not agree with him. You hear what you want to hear.
Even if what you surmise is true, I can understand that the luxuries of prudent justice long afforded in the North just could not be implemented in difficult war time conditions that the South faced in its infancy. To this day, the South is more in tune with the Constitition than the rest of the country, and I don't think that is by accident or by Honest Abe's club in hand. If you want to counter with the KKK element, there is also the pro-abortion activists in the North responsible for 30 million unborn deaths. Pick your poison.
THe only explanation is a contempt for the rule of law then. To ignore ones own constituion to the extent of refusing to staff an entire branch of government is inexcusable, especially when they had time to staff a cabinet and fill offices with political rather than constitutional requirements. Given that I can't understand how you can say the south was more in tune with the constitution. It would be more accurate to say that the south believes in the constitution when it suits its purposes.