“It was treason. It was the taking up of arms against a duly elected government.”
1. That is not the definition of treason.
2. Every state had and still has the absolute right to secede from the Union. It was Lincoln who had no authority—constitutional or moral—to stop them.
“When Lee invaded the North his army stole and looted too.”
Within the laws and customs of warfare. What Sherman did would see a general executed as a war criminal if he pulled that crap today.
“Whats your point?”
Don’t know what that person’s point is, but mine is that you are in possession of too few facts to have formed an opinion on this subject, much less an opinion that you defend with such energy.
“And if the South had won the war it started would it have ended slavery?”
Beyond any scintilla of a shadow of doubt. To say even that they might not requires malice of an appalling depth.
Further, to say that the South started the war requires some combination of obdurate malice and willful ignorance.
It was treason. It was the taking up of arms against the duly elected government. And to say the South would have ended slavery if it had won is ridiculous. It could have done that anytime before April 9,1861. The fact of the matter is the North went to war to preserve the union and won. The South went to war to preserve slavery and lost everything and no amount of revisionism and romancing treasonous, slave owning paltroons will change that.
“Within the laws and customs of war’’. Oh, yes the argument Southerners have used to escape what Lees troops did. And just what are those ‘’laws and customs’’ by the way?
Beyond any scintilla of a shadow of doubt. To say even that they might not requires malice of an appalling depth.
Would it be possible for you to please provide any scintilla of evidence that would indicate that anyone who held any power in the South had any intention of ending Slavery if they won the War?