[Non-Sequitur]

Uh, the states of the nascent Confedeacy had already seceded by the time of the Ft. Sumter incident (and, I assume it is Sumter to which you allude in your comment about “war”).

And no hostile action had been taken towards them until they initiated the war by firing on Sumter.

[Idabilly]

What are them shackles around your neck of the new American slave? Welfare, grants, entitlements, congressional pork projects, government contracts, public “service” occupations; regulation upon regulation making the lives of the good socialist slave more secure. And convenient. And comfortably complacent.

Slowly, over generations, we have succumbed to an involuntary servitude, fools for the promise of green paper and fantastic plastic; with a tax of over 50 percent of the average American’s income, to feed a swarm of socialist enterprises, which pretend they are “good for us”; all the while “assuming” a staggering incomprehensible “debt” to unseen bankers. And we all know what “assume” does to you and me. Puts a whole new color on the word slave, don’t it?

[ought-six]

“And no hostile action had been taken towards them until they initiated the war by firing on Sumter.”

So, you are ignoring your comment that the South initiated war to accomplish its aims (of secession), right? Of course you are, because your comment about the South initiating war in order to secede is unsupported by the facts.