[DiogenesLamp]

Thank you. Might consider telling Jeffersondem’’ that. Bloody Johnny Reb wannabes like conflating The Declaration Of Independence with the legitimacy of The Confederacy.

You might want to understand for yourself that the Declaration of Independence makes no moral judgements about slave holding states wanting Independence from Unions.

If it worked for the 13 slave holding colonies against the United Kingdom, which was over 1,000 years old, why would it not be valid for a very young country that was only "four score and seven" years old?

[jmacusa]

I never said it did. But the South went to war specifically to defend ‘that peculiar institution''. Throwing off the chains of a tyrannical hereditary monarchy is in no way the same as taking up arms in a violent secession against a duly elected government and you Johnny Reb wannabe's can make up all the moral relativism about it you want but it doesn't wash.