This statement reminds me of how the Russians explain their invasion of Ukraine. "The Ukrainians have been allowing the US to operate bioweapons labs that were researching how to kill people of Russian descent with a genetically modified virus."
"The Ukrainians were oppressing Russian people who lived in the Ukraine. The Ukrainians overthrew a valid elected government favorable to Russia and installed a puppet leader hostile to Russians. And so on. "
You are repeating what their enemies said about them. But beside that, what does "Nobel" have to do with anything?
The Declaration of Independence asserts that people have a right to independence. You don't get to second guess their motives. This is like saying people only have a right to freedom of speech *IF* you agree with what they are going to say.
People have a right to independence even if *YOU* think their motives are bad. Certainly the British didn't believe the Colonists had good motives. From their perspective, the Colonists were ungrateful and disloyal to their required allegiance to the King. The colonists had immoral reasons so far as the British were concerned.
The right to Independence has nothing to do with how "noble" someone is. They have the right to independence whether they are Noble or not.
Even sick people have a right to be wrong and still be allowed due process...
Well see, you do kinda get the idea.
all the states formally agreed upon and had to abide by.
All states agreed to the process outlined in the Declaration of Independence.
In sum, the South had everything it wanted and still had access to the goods from the North they could possibly desire.
There was a framework and a vow to always stay together and work through things in the agreed upon manner.
The South abandoned its responsibilities to use “every stage…of redress” to justify any negative action. So, as the Declaration states, the United States and the CSA became “Enemies in War.”
A Perpetual Union is, by definition, Perpetual.