GDG- Re: a grave question to be considered

[Biggsk at aol.com]

Laurie Schiller writes:

>>>Ok - I wasn't going to get into this, but while Grant let  corrupt friends 
loot the treasury, Buchanan damaged the country by not  doing anything while 
the country drifted to war. He let his  southern cabinet officers ship weapons 
and supplies to the south and do  a variety of other treasonous things.>>>


Theft of Federal property at best.  Treasonous?  Not even  close.  Treason 
and secession are two completely different things - and a  topic that a former 
constitutional law professor and I broached this past  weekend at the CW 
conference in Decatur, IL who stating the same thing as I am  here.  It was not the 
South's aim to overthrow the US government - it was  their aim to leave it, 
thus not committing treason.  The proof in the  pudding is that there were no 
trials for treason after the war - and Jeff Davis  and Alec Stephens were both 
chomping at the bit for them to prove their  point.
 
They probably would have won - and the US government knew it!
 
Greg Biggs



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