[GilesB]

One can be in full agreement with the idea of a state’s right to secede and be in full opposition to the idea of slavery.

I am in full agreement with the idea that we, as free people, have the right to bear arms - mainly because I am in full opposition to what some people intend to do with the arms they are bearing.

[Cheburashka]

One can be in full agreement with the idea of a state’s right to secede and be in full opposition to the idea of slavery.

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That such might be theoretically possible is irrelevant and does not change the fact that the the Confederacy was set up to protect and perpetuate slavery.

On February 4, 1861 the Confederate government was proclaimed. On March 3, 1861 Tzar Alexander II freed the serfs. Between the Confederacy and the Russians someone was going in the wrong direction and it wasn't the Russians.