Were the Confederates traitors

[Quantrill]

The dictionary's.

Well, give the definition, and the Dictionary.

Quantrill

 

[Unkotare]

Well, give the definition, and the Dictionary.

Quantrill

I know you're on the internet.

 

[Quantrill]

I know you're on the internet.

So, give the Dictionary and the definition. It's your statement.

Quantrill

 

[Hellbilly]

My ancestors fought the Yankees because they invaded Virginia.

My ancestors fought your ancestors because they invaded my homeland. See how that works?

 

[there4eyeM]

A studied refusal to understand English is the only way to arrive at justifying separation.

 

[Quantrill]

A studied refusal to understand English is the only way to arrive at justifying separation.

Everything I have said has been in English. Every quote I gave has been in English. And all prove that secession was legal and not traitorous.

If you can understand English, by all means prove what I have said is wrong.

Quantrill

 

[Unkotare]

So, give the Dictionary and the definition. It's your statement.

Quantrill

Nobody ever taught you how to use the internet? Do you have a special computer that only goes to USMB?

 

[Unkotare]

Everything I have said has been in English. Every quote I gave has been in English. And all prove that secession was legal and not traitorous.

If you can understand English, by all means prove what I have said is wrong.

Quantrill

You obviously never read the Supreme Court ruling.

 

[Unkotare]

My ancestors fought your ancestors because they invaded my homeland. See how that works?

And you lost.

 

[Hellbilly]

And you lost.

We are still here.

 

[Unkotare]

We are still here.

You're welcome.

 

[Oddball]

The Confederacy was a separate nation that declared war on the United States.

So the answer to the OP's question is: NO.

By definition, a "traitor" undermines and attacks from within...They aren't an entity that is apart.

 

[Oddball]

If they were traitors, so were the founding fathers.

Again, by definition they were "traitors"...They threw off the existing State apparatus from within it and declared that they are in charge...They overthrew King George's sovereignty on this land mass.

Did the Confederacy seek to usurp and overthrow Lincoln's gubmint?...No, they sought their own space, among a system of states that was supposedly voluntary, to run their own affairs.

 

[Oddball]

I know you're on the internet.

You opened your big ******* yap with an opinion, the onus of proof is on you.

Put up or STFU.

 

[Unkotare]

So the answer to the OP's question is: NO.

By definition, a "traitor" undermines and attacks from within...They aren't an entity that is apart.

That is exactly what the so-called "confederates" did. They were traitors, and they got what they deserved.

 

[Unkotare]

You opened your big ******* yap with an opinion, the onus of proof is on you.

Put up or STFU.

Look up or STFU.

 

[Oddball]

Look up or STFU.

For an alleged "educator" you are one ignorant ****.

In a proper debate, the one who asserts the opinion is tasked with producing the evidence to back it.

The onus of criteria is on you, jackass.

 

[Oddball]

That is exactly what the so-called "confederates" did. They were traitors, and they got what they deserved.

No, they sought their own nation... They didn't seek to overthrow Lincoln.

 

[Unkotare]

No, they sought their own nation... They didn't seek to overthrow Lincoln.

They were part of the Union. They attacked that Union and undermined it. Traitors.

 

[Oddball]

They were part of the Union. They attacked that Union and undermined it. Traitors.

They were no more "traitors" than an abused spouse seeking a divorce, splitting up the property, and going their own way....They didn't seek to kill off the counterpart.

Again, you are a serious ignoramus in the realm of semantics.