There were no "traitors" before Ft. Sumter, so I'll trouble you to take down that word.
The entire State of South Carolina had renounced their citizenship and changed their allegiance openly to the Confederacy, by a lawful and moral procedure of popular convention. The People own the Constitution, not the other way around. They can leave the Union if they wish.
You are in the unenviable position of explaining how a People who are NOT free to abolish their Union and change their Constitution, are still "free" somehow.
> There were no "traitors" before Ft. Sumter, so I'll trouble you to take down that word.
Alright. Would "Scumbags" be better? "Lowest form of human life - those who would set themselves up as aristocrats?" "Evil monsters who 8pretended* to be gentlemen?"
You tell me. What *do* you call a man who sees glory and honor in killing his fellow man in order to maintain his "right" to keep other men in permanent slavehood?
> You are in the unenviable position of explaining how a People who are NOT free to abolish their Union and change their Constitution, are still "free" somehow.
Ain't nothin' wrong with seceding. But when you secede and then launch a war of aggression against your former fellows... you have no right of complaint for what follows.