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Re: Authoritarian/Libertarian/Left/Right/Good/Evil
by Plantagenet » Sat 03 Nov 2012, 13:44:33
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrestonSturges', ' ')Lincoln did not prosecute anyone for treason after the Confederacy lost.
It would have surprised everyone at the time if Lincoln had prosecuted people for treason after the civil war, since Lincoln was already dead.
Back in the real world the southerners who conspired to murder Lincoln were convicted of treason by a military tribuanal and hung. The leaders of the south (the CSA president, Gen. Robert E. Lee, etc.) were also arrested, jailed and indicted for treason but then were pardoned by their fellow Democrat Andrew Johnson, who became president after Lincoln was assassinated.
The traitors who assassinated Lincoln were convicted of treason and hung
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Re: Authoritarian/Libertarian/Left/Right/Good/Evil
by Plantagenet » Sat 03 Nov 2012, 20:32:07
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'P')lant, does the 'real world' include that magic kingdom where Obama started Hurricane Sandy for the sympathy/strong-man vote?
Only in your dreams, Pstar.
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Re: Authoritarian/Libertarian/Left/Right/Good/Evil
by PrestonSturges » Sun 04 Nov 2012, 14:27:48
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrestonSturges', ' ')Lincoln did not prosecute anyone for treason after the Confederacy lost.
It would have surprised everyone at the time if Lincoln had prosecuted people for treason after the civil war, since Lincoln was already dead.
Lincoln made his intentions clear in the closing of his second inaugural address:
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') With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
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