This is your answer to the facts I pointed out?
The simple, obvious fact of the matter is that the Confederacy was not an "evil empire" any more than the pre-1850 U.S. was.
The Confederacy was a democratic nation that permitted slavery but that also allowed for the admission of free states, that banned the importation of foreign slaves, and that actually began a program of gradual emancipation toward the end of its life. The Confederacy held elections for its president and congress that were just as valid as the elections held in the U.S. The Confederacy had a vibrant free press that felt free to strongly criticize government actions.
The Confederacy never should have been founded in the first place. It was the result of the ill-conceived, unjustified secession of seven Deep South states, which were joined by four more states but for different reasons. But it is just woke nonsense to call the Confederacy an "evil empire."