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.
“It was treason.”
Can you cite the names of some of the Southerners convicted of treason? Or is your claim of treason just something you decided to say?
“It was treason. It was the taking up of arms against the duly elected government.”
You’re still stealing King George III’s old lines, jmac. At least you should give him credit.
‘Rebellion, treason, traitor’, it was all said before by King George when Washington and the rest took up arms against his government. To some small minds it’s treason, to others it’s independence.
A PROCLAMATION, FOR SUPPRESSING REBELLION AND SEDITION
GEORGE R.
WHEREAS many of Our Subjects in divers Parts of our Colonies and Plantations in North America, misled by dangerous and ill designing men, and forgetting the Allegiance which they owe to the power that has protected and supported them; after various disorderly acts committed in disturbance of the publick peace, to the obstruction of lawful commerce, and to the oppression of our loyal subjects carrying on the same; have at length proceeded to open and avowed rebellion, by arraying themselves in a hostile manner, to withstand the execution of the law, and traitorously preparing, ordering and levying war against us: And whereas there is reason to apprehend that such rebellion hath been much promoted and encouraged by the traitorous correspondence, counsels and comfort of divers wicked and desperate persons within this realm: To the end therefore, that none of our subjects may neglect or violate their duty through ignorance thereof, or through any doubt of the protection which the law will afford to their loyalty and zeal, we have thought fit, by and with the advice of our Privy Council, to issue our Royal Proclamation, hereby declaring, that not only all our Officers, civil and military, are obliged to exert their utmost endeavours to suppress such rebellion, and to bring the traitors to justice, but that all our subjects of this Realm, and the dominions thereunto belonging, are bound by law to be aiding and assisting in the suppression of such rebellion, and to disclose and make known all traitorous conspiracies and attempts against us, our crown and dignity; and we do accordingly strictly charge and command all our Officers, as well civil as military, and all others our obedient and loyal subjects, to use their utmost endeavours to withstand and suppress such rebellion, and to disclose and make known all treasons and traitorous conspiracies which they shall know to be against us, our crown and dignity; and for that purpose, that they transmit to one of our principal Secretaries of State, or other proper officer, due and full information of all persons who shall be found carrying on correspondence with, or in any manner or degree aiding or abetting the persons now in open arms and rebellion against our Government, within any of our Colonies and Plantations in North America, in order to bring to condign punishment the authors, perpetrators, and abetters of such traitorous designs.
Given at our Court at St. James’s the twenty-third day of August, one thousand
seven hundred and seventy five, in the fifteenth year of our reign.
God save the King.
“It was the taking up of arms against the duly elected government.” - J
If I am not mistaken, several Southern States took legal action through their duly elected legislatures to separate themselves from the United States many months before shooting started.
No Southern leader was convicted of treason. (Let that sink in...)
If you dispute that assertion please name the parties.