So Impy, you are a ends justify the means kind of guy. So why bother referencing the Constitution and law? Lets turn it around, could the United States have gained its independence without the support of slave owning states? If you say yes, please explain.
Look I don’t like Sherman’s march to the sea either, I wouldn’t have volunteered for the Union army but I cry no tears for the damn CSA.
If child-rape was legal in some part of the country and a bunch of states left the union after a President unsympathetic to child-rape was elected would you stand with the child rapists and their alleged right to secede? I wouldn’t, I’d tell them to go to hell for raping children.
CSA sure didn’t care about the black mans NATURAL RIGHT not to be a damn slave. Or about Kansas’ right to decide they didn’t want to be a slave state. or the right of nortern states not to let brutal fugitive slave hunters operate north of the mason-dixon. But it wrapped itself in the US constitution and it’s alleged right to leave to union for any reason. Pathetic. Selective love of the constitution.
If a slave killed his owner while trying to escape would you have favored hanging the slave as was the law at the time? I say it’s self defense. But the law is the law. Right? Irreverent question? No more so than your completely off-point question about the Revolutionary War.
You can argue both sides were wrong but you can’t argue for the virtue of the CSA. They left the union for a crappy and moronic reason.