So what is it when I steal your car, then tell you that I’m prepared to negotiate a price for it? As I keep saying, a negotiation involves two parties, either of which can walk away whole if no agreement is reached. The south was never going to let the United States keep it’s forts, lighthouses, armories, etc, were they?
In a divorce, taking one of the cars ain't "stealing", but you guys keep telling that lie, to push your phony beef.
The south was never going to let the United States keep it’s forts, lighthouses, armories, etc, were they?
Oh, hell no, no more than the infant United States let the British keep New York, Boston, and West Point.
Or can you think of a reason why the North, now a separate country, should consider itself "entitled" to keep the forts?
Why should they keep forts in the South? Mints? Post Offices?
Come on, spit it out.
Meanwhile, the Southerners offered a settlement along the lines of the Treaty of Paris of 1783, including Treasury debt.
They did not attempt to "screw" the North -- you just want that claim as a live issue, a fig leaf, to justify what was done to the South: arson, pillaging, destruction, mass murder and red war.
Conquest, in other words, to slake the Northern appetite for gorging itself on the country's wealth, to the exclusion of the other sections (except for corrupt Chicago).