Christ's only reprimand to the Roman soldiers was not to abuse their authority through bribery.
The Left successfully has transformed all killing in wartime into “murder”...
However, “Thou shalt not murder” is one of the Ten Commandments, is distinguished from killing.
Murder is one of the commandments because it is always a personal hatred in the heart towards another human being.
Killing another on a battlefield is not murder, unless you happened to be a Confederate who personally knew and had an animus towards a Union soldier (or vice versa). Or unless you were King David who was guilty of the murder of Bathsheba’s husband who died in battle... in that case David purposely put her husband on the front lines in order to get him killed. And so David was guilty of murder.
You have an interesting argument about the South upholding the Constitution; but unfortunately the moral sin of slavery outweighed the law allowing it, and the sinful stain of it caused the South to make all the wrong moves, including firing the first shots of the war and seceding.
P.S. I had family on both sides, including some named after Robert E Lee.
Here we go again with focusing on something the Union also had, and which it had no intention of changing.
Everyone nowadays has been brainwashed with slavery on the brain. The war had nothing to do with slavery. Lincoln didn't suddenly wake up one morning and say "Those Southerners have slavery, so I'm going to attack them."
What Lincoln did do was to wake up one day and say "If those Southerners established independent trade with Europe, two hundred million dollars per year will be lost to my backers in New York, and the Federal Government will also lose 80% of it's income."
Do you not realize when you've been conned? The propaganda machine has now got most Americans thinking that Lincoln sent an invasion force into the South to stop slavery, and that is utter bullsh*t. He sent that invasion force to do one thing, and that was to prevent the South from Trading with Europe without New York and Washington DC taking their cut.
"Slavery" was a post hoc justification for forces he had already unleashed to destroy the enemies of the New York/Washington empire.
Do you know who the New York/Washington DC empire is? It's the same F***ing bastards who are running the "Deep State"/"Crony Capitalist"/"Establishement"/"Uniparty" scam in Washington DC today.
New York and Washington more or less run the entire United States, and the rest of us are mostly too stupid to realize where the actual power lies. We do our "Tea Party" thing as if we can fight these multi-billionaires and their propaganda apparatus in their New York broadcasting studios.
Who made that Idiot Barack Obama into a somebody? New York did. Who made that corrupt psycho-nazi hate witch Hillary into a somebody? Again, New York did that.
The New York based propaganda system we call "news" has long been the tool of the oligarchs that more or less control Washington DC, and this is why they are so pissed at Trump's ability to circumvent their media weapon. For the first time since 1860, their power is being threatened.