[RLK]

We were not rebels, we did not fight to perpetuate human slavery, but for our rights and privileges under a government established over us by our fathers and in defense of our homes."

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But amongh those rights and priviles... was slavery.

It's a rhetoric trick in which a damand is sanitized by stating it in an more abstract and bland form.

[r9etb]

But amongh those rights and priviles... was slavery.

Not to mention that slavery was quite specifically stated as a cause for secession by Texas, Mississippi, Georgia, and South Carolina.