I'm pretty sure that their shelling of a fort flying the United States flag had something to do with public opinion on the matter, too.
A lot of people want to pretend that the 13th, the 14th, and the 15th amendments were valid amendments to the constitution, but the constitution was never intended to be changed through Washington DC control of puppet governments that would do the bidding of Washington DC.
Yes, your opinion that the process through which slaves were freed and blacks given civil rights was highly improper is well known.
I'm pretty sure that when someone sends a fleet of warships to open fire on you, you suddenly realize that you need to do something about that fort behind you, or you are going to get shot from both the back and the front.
But people conveniently leave out the fact that the Confederates only took the action they did because it was made clear to them that war fleet had arrived, and would soon be shelling them.
So what would *YOU* do if you had just learned that warships were arriving to fight you?
Yes, your opinion that the process through which slaves were freed and blacks given civil rights was highly improper is well known.
Ignores the point. Do you think it is a valid process to put guns to people's heads and order them to vote as they are instructed? Is that what the founders meant when they spoke of an amendment process?
Is it possible to get an honest statement out of you on this particular point?