oldfart
Older than dirt
You have that wrong. The immorality resided entirely within the mind of the tyrant...Dishonest Abe.
No, it rested with the traitors who would tear the Union asunder for the sake of the evil institution of slavery; an institution by which very few of the men who gave their lives in gallant battle ever directly benefited.
"One of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish."
Then you must conclude that Americans who fought for and believed in independence from Great Britain were traitors too....just as Dishonest Abe must have believed.
To make that argument you would have to compare the justification which makes up virtually all of the Declaration of Independence with the similar listing provided in the Ordinances of Succession. Good luck with that one. I haven't seen any whiney-ass Southern apologist even give it a try. "They won't stop talking about our slavekeeping" doesn't seem to rise to the level of Locke's Rights of Man.