“Greatest failure of the Union was that the national government didn’t execute the Confederate leaders and generals for precisely treason once they had vanquished them.”
Execute? There were never any trials. . . meaning there were never any convictions.
In terms of human bondage, it is my understanding the Confederates were fighting to preserve the Confederate constitution which permited the peculiar institution.
And the federals were fighting to preserve the U. S. Constitution which permitted the peculiar institution.
Did you know both sides were fighting for constitutional governments that permitted human bondage?
Scroll down for why Georgia seceded. The other declarations make for interesting reading too.
http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~ras2777/amgov/secession.html
How about the constitutionalism of Alexander Stephens? You know who he was, don’t you. Speaking of the Constitution of the Confederacy he said:
“Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.”
2015 and a Freeper excuses treason and the gloification of slavery! WOW.