Slaveholders, people who kept children as captives, are scum. They have no rights. ;-)
Half the South seceded because Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States. Is there something “noble” about that?..... or something? If they had stuck it out, a lot of issues could have been worked out. But they were mia, even while Buchanan, as a lame duck, tried to negotiate.
George Washington and the rest would disagree with you.