And in doing so guaranteed their failure and demise.
Yeah, cause if they had accepted Lincolns' offered 13th amendment, they could have kept slavery permanently, and with his blessing.
And you people are so gullible that you think this war was about slavery.
As the London Spectator so accurately summed it up after the Emancipation Proclamation:
"The principle asserted is not that a human being cannot justly own another, but that he cannot own him unless he is loyal to the United States."