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To: WhiskeyPapa
Who are you trying to fool? Did you blush when you saw the unedited letter?

No, Walt, only when I read the part I quoted. Then again, it was more like shock and revulsion. I specifically quoted just that piece, and provided a link. That quote is to show the actions of your "lover of freedom for all men everywhere". Shell cities? Yeah, that takes guts. It also follows with the practices this "lover of freedom" allowed his generals and cabinet to undertake.

Traitors need to be dealt with when they commit treason.

Still waiting for you to name me just one that was ever convicted.......
88 posted on 12/13/2002 8:36:33 AM PST by wasp69
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To: wasp69
Still waiting for you to name me just one that was ever convicted.......

None. Abraham Lincoln refused to allow it.

Merryman was a citizen of Maryland. Maryland did not secede. He actively aided the enemies of the United States.

He could easily have been hanged based on the standards used to hang loyal Texans in Gainesville, Texas in 1862. In that instance --I just read this recently-- confessions were elicited from slaves -- every slave in the county was whipped according to the one source. And, the "court" stipulated that the convictions could be obtained by a majority vote by the jury. And the majority of the jury members were slave holders.

Forty loyal Texans were hanged even though no overt acts were proved on any of them.

Merryman was released after 49 days in jail.

Walt

89 posted on 12/13/2002 8:58:12 AM PST by WhiskeyPapa
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To: wasp69
Still waiting for you to name me just one that was ever convicted.......

There were 60-odd confederate leaders who were indicted for treason or related charges. They were never tried because in the view of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Salmon Chase, the passage of the 14th Amendment provided punishment for those who supported the rebellion. Trying and convicting them again on treason charges would have violated their 5th Amendment protections against double jeopardy. Absent the 14th Amendment, Jefferson Davis and dozens of others might have spent their remaining years in a jail cell.

97 posted on 12/13/2002 10:51:09 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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