[ought-six]

“Since slaves were people, I doubt that any of the seceding states represented the will of their people.”

Women are people, too. So were freedmen. However, neither had the franchise. So, by your logic, you must necessarily admit that the non-seceding states did not re[resent the will of their people because at least one half of them had no voice whatsoever.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

The theory of the time held that the interest of men and their wives (virtually all adult women were wives) was the same. Folks believed it. No one ever argued that the interests of slaves and slave-masters were the same.