Yes, when it secures allies against your own countrymen with whom you expended so much blood and effort to rid our land of foreign domination. The Confederates were too feeble themselves to overrun Northern locales with a plundering army but they were perfectly happy and anxious to see a French or British army do the same.
Once a state declares it independence, it becomes sovereign, the population of the remaining states become foreigners, "those people". If "those people" choose to take up arms, they become the enemy.
Who were doing everything they could to kill as many of us as possible and one of their top generals advocated rounding up all of his 'countrymen' and exiling them to foreign countries and repopulating their land with damnyanks!
There's no way that you wrote that crap in seriousness and if you did then you're a complete moron.
but they were perfectly happy and anxious to see a French or British army do the same.
The South wanted enough forces to drive the marauding vermin from our country and then to establish a peaceful truce and that is all.