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This issue is addressed in a book written by Alfred Bledsoe, Was Jefferson Davis a Traitor or The War Between the States. Bledsoe spent the entire Civil War in England researching the only other copy of our Constitution so that he could defend Davis and the South in the case Southerners lost and were persecuted by a court of law. Salmon Chase, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, knew that he would have to meet Bledsoe in a court if any of the former Confederates were charged with treason and he knew that the North would lose in an honest court of law. Ask yourself, why wasn't any of the secessionists ever tried for treason or prosecuted in a court? One knows that the radical Northerners would have liked nothing better than to hang Southerners but they didn't, why? The answer is in the knowledge of Chase and Bledsoe.

One knows that the radical Northerners would have liked nothing better than to hang Southerners but they didn't, why?

That...is utterly ridiculous. The more simple fact is, that it is grievously unstatesmanlike to rub salt in the wound AFTER the successful prosecution of a war, against those you would presume to rule...

(Remember the Admonition of Lord Cornwallis to Col. Tavington about the manner in which he is prosecuting the war....contained in The Patriot..)

Oh, Yes, and Inversely, you'll notice the Confederacy did not take their claims to the Supreme Court.

Because as has been pointed out, the Constitution Expressly Forbids what they did (Art1.Sec10 Clause1.)