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. Do you deny that they were miserable traitors, more dedicated to the continuation and indeed expansion of human bondage than this nation?
“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?
If they were “miserable traitors” as you call them, why did every federal judge (all in the north) refuse to prosecute them? Secession was not illegal, as no mention of it is made in the Constitution. Matter of fact, the American Revolution could be considered an act of secession.
So, go soak your head.
I suppose you would also support blasting Plymouth Rock, and tearing down the Jefferson Memorial, the Washington Monument, Minute Man statues, etc.