Reply #36: They weren't tried [View All]

[Yupster]

but you'll just declare them guilty anyway?

Geeze

Hopefully you're never indicted for a crime someday, not tried and assumed to be guilty anyway.

Jefferson Davis was indicted for treason and begged for a trial so he could prove his innocence. He had a high priced group of northern lawyers well funded by noted abolitionists Cornelius Vanderbilt and Horace Greeley who were sure they could have him found innocent on the grounds that secession was legal and legally accomplished.

The government never gave him his day in court. They just left him indicted.

So a guy on an internet website 100 years later can just declare him guilty.