As you well know, he was still in prison facing a death squad for nearly a year after the war was over. You know this, shame on you for trying to mislead the lurkers again. As you well know (and even pointed out in the SAME post), the Supreme Court did not decide his case and free him until 1866. Your non-sequitur about "8 months later" was nothing more than a deception designed to mislead lurkers, and you know it. And so does everyone else since you so blatantly exposed yourself by almost immediately pointing out his release date a few lines later, LOL. Stop trying to mislead the lurkers, Wlat. What did they ever do to you to deserve such treatment?
He -did- advocate the violent overthrow of the government. Why is it exactly that you are stickng up for him?
He was -not- convicted of that, so who are -you- to proclaim it as a truth? Oh yeah, now I remember, you're one of those guys the Supreme Court warned us about, one of the threats to liberty that would render the Republic meaningless by your support of tyranny. I think I already pointed that out in a previous post. BTW, do you still consider the Constitution to be a "pact with the devil"?
Now, Ex parte Milligan came to the Supreme Court in April, 1866. I don't know, but I don't think Milligan was incarcerated the whole time any way, but even -that- time from 10/64 to 4/66 is not "years".
OK, almost. He was released in April 1866, which you did know, despite your evasive remarks. A year and a half then for Mr. Milligan, who was almost murdered by Lincoln's tyranny even after the tyrant was dead. He was being held for execution, do you really expect anyone to believe that he was out walking around prior to his case being decided?
You don't seem very familiar with the history.
LOL, my only errors were the spelling of his first name and a mis-remembered release date that was off by six months. Your errors are so numerous and deliberately deceitful that it brings nothing but shame upon your name to have thrown such an accusation at another.
As you well know, he was still in prison facing a death squad for nearly a year after the war was over.
Nah, I don't know that. I was too lazy to look it up.
I did recall the date of his arrest and knew it made you look a fool for naming him as a person held in jail for "years."
So we see that Milligan was not held for "years", you didn't even know his name, and you haven't named anyone who was held for "years."
Vallandigham was held for a while, maybe a few months as I recollect, but then he was released by President Lincoln. I don't think it was "years." Merryman was held for 49 days.
So the lurkers can see that your statement about people being held for "years" was phoney. Maybe you can back it up, but you haven't yet.
Walt
Nah. As I said, I didn't think he was incarcerated from 10/64 to 4/66, but even if he was, it wasn't a period of "years." And it wasn't done on President Lincoln's watch after 8 months, because he was dead. You made a statement that people were imprisoned for "years", and you haven't yet named such a person.
You might turn up some, but I don't think you will turn up many.
Walt