I agree with what Jefferson Davis said after a couple of decades of reflection:
The past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes, and its aspirations. Before you lies the future, a future full of golden promise, a future of expanding national glory, before which all the world shall stand amazed. Let me beseech you to lay aside all rancor, all bitter sectional feeling, and to take your places in the ranks of those who will bring about a consummation to be wished, a reunited country.
The people of the USA are grateful for Lincoln and for the Union forces that preserved their country for them. There are always a few malcontents, but nearly everyone loves the USA and is proud to be an American now.
Tau: “Whenever I hear people claim that the Southern secessionists had an indisputable right to do chop the United States into pieces...”
Declaration of Independence: “When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them...”
It’s in the very FIRST SENTENCE.... how did you miss that???
Grade: D-, go back and study more.