[Aurelius]

One can be totally opposed to slavery (including Lincoln's enslavement of the people of the Confederacy) without believing that the South did not have the right to secede or that Lincoln was right to attempt to suppress that secession.

Not to recognize that is indicative of a serious incapacity for logical thought on your part. Your attempt to justify your vicious slander is based on an absurd fallacy.

[LS]

Good. We agree on slavery.

I don't know of any rebellious state in history where the rebels were treated any more kindly than by Lincoln. Name me another rebellion where the leaders were not only eventually restored to full citizenship but did not have their property completely confiscated---and not just their so-called "slave property."

Based on history, for Lincoln to have been "just" to the rebels, he would have shot or imprisoned all the leaders, confiscated all plantation and/or Confederate property and distributed it to the freedmen, and prohibited anyone ever associated with the Confederacy from voting again. (see: Carthage, for example).