The American Colonies declared themselves a nation.
In the eyes of the British they were still colonies.
Had they lost, they would have been hung as traitors.
When you fight against your old country, you are a traitor to that nation, by any definition of the word.
And why the sensitivity to Davis being a traitor?
From what I have seen from the Southern Cabel, none of you love this nation, so why do you care about traitors against it.
Frankly, I think you are a disgrace to the South, who are very patriotic and love the nation and the principles that it was founded on the, the Declaration of Independence.
The Southern leadership led the South astray in order to protect a wicked institution and then shroud it as being the South's 'peculiar'Institution.
The South is better off being rid of it and being rid of those men to led hundred of thousands of good men to die so the Southern leadership would not lose the property value of human beings.