[4CJ]

and so has no sympathy for traitors such as Jefferson Davis.

Never tired nor convicted. Empty words. But if it was such an open and shut case, the federal government could have easily proven it's case. They did not, and could not. They were scared that Jefferson Davis would be found innocent, legally vindicating the South and condemning the North, Lincoln and the Radical Republicans.

Remember, in the Prize Cases, Justice Grier wrote for the majority:

Several of these States have combined to form a new confederacy, claiming to be acknowledged by the world as a sovereign State. Their right to do so is now being decided by wager of battle.

The justices did not state that it was illegal nor unconstitutional.

[Grand Old Partisan]

President Lincoln emphatically opposed trials for any rebel. The only reason President Johnson imprisoned Davis was Davis' refusal to acknowledge Johnson as his President, by requesting a pardon -- an act most rebels, including Ropbert Lee, had the class to do, but not your hero, Jefferson Davis.

[Grand Old Partisan]

Your point about Jefferson Davis not being tried for treason because of Lincoln, the North, and the Radical Republicans is especially ridiculous because the man who imprisoned Jefferson Davis without trial was President Andrew Johnson -- not Lincoln, a southerner, and a Democrat, arch-enemy of the Radical Republicans.