Trying Davis might result in a court decision that secession was constitutional, and the North would lose in court the principle they had illicitly won on the battlefield.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Salmon P. Chase advised against any trial for this reason. Jeff Davis was released without trial because of it.
Secession was, and is, Constitutional. If the United States continues its headlong plunge into a statist, socialist tyranny, states may again secede from the Union.
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Because the "American Revolution" was technically an act of secession, the Founders were really careful in defining treason, and they defined it as giving substantial support to the declared enemy during a declared state of war.
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