Heh....I would have supported the right of the South to secede but I have no illusions about the pro-slavery nature of the CSA. I would have also supported John Brown's rebellion.
I appreciate your support for the South's right to proper secessionbut to suggest (and I'm not saying that you made that suggestion) that the General Government's unsatiable desire to subvert the State governments was somehow a pure-hearted desire to "free the slaves" is not supported by the slightest shred of truth, until later on in the conflict when the Union determined it needed to change the focus of its propaganda to prevent foreign nations from recognizing the Confederacy, which would have resulted in opening numerous ports to the CSA's prizes won on the high seas.
(I don't mean to pick nits, but Brown's rebellion was, by all of the accounts I've seen, not much more than a homicidal rampage. I don't think anything good could possibly come out of any such events, as good as the intentions might have been.)
Regards,
~dt~