Why, Even Though He Wanted It, Davis Never Went To Trial...
Jefferson Davis & Treason
Jefferson Davis & Treason
(Dennis L. Goshorn, Tarmangani) - In 1869, charges of treason were dropped against President Jefferson Davis.
Davis had fled Richmond, hoping to escape to Britain or France, where he might reestablish a government in exile. However, before he could do so, members of the 4th Michigan Cavalry arrested him near Irwinville, Georgia, on May 10, 1865.
Davis was taken into custody as a suspect in the assassination of United States president Abraham Lincoln. When investigators failed to establish a link between Davis and the Lincoln assassins, the U.S. government charged him instead with treason. Debate over Davis’s fate tended to divide between those who favored a severe punishment of the former Confederate political leaders and those who favored a more conciliatory approach. Davis spent two years as a military prisoner at Fort Monroe near Norfolk.
When Davis was indicted in the federal court system, he stood before US Supreme Court Chief Justice Salmon Chase, who was acting as a circuit judge at the time. Davis’s defense team argued that he had already been punished by the 14th Amendment, which stopped him from serving in public office in the future so charging him for treason over the same actions would constitute double jeopardy. Chase preferred to dismiss the treason charges, but another judge, John Underwood, wouldn’t agree to it.
The Federal Government had many prominent attorneys review their case for treason, and none were willing to take on. They all knew that the case was a loser. Davis was demanding a trial, his…
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Lincoln was not to blame by himself to blame for his tyrannical abuses. We must remember those who supported his wanting of war against the Confederate States. There were the bankers, there were the industrialists, there were the Union Generals/Colonels. Remember the money generated by the war that the Northern bankers made, the money the industrialists made from weapons and military equipment, or the Colonels who wanted to be generals and the generals who wanted a higher rank. No, Lincoln was not alone in the slaughter of the South and its many traditions. Too many good men died to squash States Rights and individual freedoms enjoyed by the South. In 1850, the South, well aware that slavery was coming to an end, sent a delegation to Washington concerning the issue of slavery. It was put forth that for the Southern Slave States to abandon slavery, it needed 10 years to render the slaves free, or the Southern Slave States would collapse from the economic devastation. The delegation was rebuffed and told either now or else. The industrialists, the bankers, and the military started making plans to push the South into a useless money-making enterprise of Northern invention. Had the North allowed the South 10 years or less, the slaves would have been freed, but instead, a war that destroyed the South ensued, and almost a million Northern and Southern Soldiers died of wounds and/or disease. So I ask who was really to blame for the war, who was responsible for reconstruction, and who made vast sums of money off land stolen from Southerners.
Ask yourself about every war since then, who made millions, perhaps billions, off war materials and weapons, who loaned the vast sums of money to support these useless wars? The same elites who made money from the original "Civil War," now known as the Military Industrial Complex, This is a short and incomplete version of what I wrote some 30 years ago in book form.