[DiogenesLamp]

The freedom to enslave their fellow man? That’s not a “right” worth preserving.

You wouldn't think so, but apparently the founders thought it was so necessary to preserve it that they wrote deliberate protections for it into the US Constitution.

The Civil War was about preserving the Union, as far has the United States was concerned.

But why did they have a right to do that, but the British didn't?

[highball]

The freedom to enslave their fellow man? That’s not a "right" worth preserving.

You wouldn't think so, but apparently the founders thought it was so necessary to preserve it that they wrote deliberate protections for it into the US Constitution.

The Founding Fathers compromised to get our new country off the ground. It's disingenuous to compare that with the CSA, which claimed slavery as its fundamental founding principle and expressly forbade its member states from curtailing the practice.

The Civil War was about preserving the Union, as far has the United States was concerned.

But why did they have a right to do that, but the British didn't?

Another staggeringly facile comparison. The American Revolution was fought to increase liberty for people on this continent, whereas the CSA was expressly founded on the belief that some human beings didn't deserve to be free.

Look, I get it. Nobody wants to think that their grandfathers fought (and died) in the service of the most evil nation this continent has ever seen. But no amount of historical revisionism can change the basic fact that while the men who took up arms may have been pure of heart, the nation and cause they were defending was anything but.