Booth's Escape Route

[Rob Wick]

Quote:Also, do you think Booth and his gang would be viewed differently if they were pro-Union, and had committed their acts against Jefferson Davis and company instead?

Obviously, i can only speak for myself, but to me the answer would be no. War is completely barbaric, but that's why there are rules which both sides follow, and for which people have been and continue to be charged with violating. Call if naive, but when one side would resort to violating that en masse, that side has lost any moral high ground it may have had.

Of course I make no secret that I'm happy the north won, and all that statement entails, but had it had to resort to the assassination of Davis or any other Confederate cabinet member, it would have been a Pyrrhic victory. I think that's part of the reason the north accepted the tenets of the Lieber Code.

And unless someone can show me a clear-cut case where the south could have fought on and won, the war was over.

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Rob