Yes, of course, and that is about the extent of your deliberate baiting that I will put up with.
You are deliberately trying to skew the issue away from the salient aspect. You keep trying to lure it down a cul-de-sac so as to avoid confronting the core of it.
The Union did not recognize the rights of black men until it became convenient to their purpose to do so, so spare me the moral posturing. When that army invaded South Carolina, not a man jack of them was marching to end slavery, and i'm fed up with people deliberately trying to gloss over that essential point.
Abolishing Slavery wasn't on the "to do" list till approximately two years later. It was never the priority, it was just a cynical war tactic that later became a cynical political tactic.
Well, but I’ll take those who use “cynical political tactics” that end in the restoration of freedom to a whole class of human beings, made in the image and likeness of our Creator, over those who claim a “right” to commit the gross wrong of enslaving others any day of the week.