Way too late on that one, Rustabout.
“If you bring these [Confederate] leaders to trial it will condemn the North, for by the Constitution secession is not rebellion. Lincoln wanted Davis to escape, and he was right. His capture was a mistake. His trial will be a greater one.”
That would be the very same Chief Justice Salmon Chase who ruled the Southern acts of unilateral secession to be illegal not 2 years later in the Texas v White case? Must have changed his mind, huh? </sarcasm>
Do y'all think a Yankee will fit in a small cage? For training,of course?Non-Sequitur,Will you volunteer?