What is more tyrannical than slavery?
Oh. Right, right, riiiiiiiight. The Civil War was not about slavery. It was about opposing tyranny. We want to be free to enslave our fellow man!
If the Civil War was actually about slavery shouldn't the EP have been signed a lot sooner?
We are all slaves to the US government and a broken system. Should we fly that flag?
Slavery was legal in the Union. You are trying to measure the conditions of that time by modern ideas of morality. The Union did not fight the war to abolish slavery. They fought that war to stop Independence for Southern states.
We want to be free to enslave our fellow man!
Which they would also have been allowed to do as members of the Union. Indeed, there were five Union States in which Slavery continued all throughout the Civil War.
What is more tyrannical than slavery?
We can see what it was all about today by just looking at the headlines, :STATES MUST EXCEPT SODOMITE MARRIAGE:
Not in those exact words but which amount to the same thing,
States have lost their rights and so has every one else.
So you would agree that the slave owners of 1776 were also not engaged in a legitimate rebellion against tyranny, right? Why was the Confederacy’s bid for self-determination any less valid than that of the British colonies? Both nascent nations embraced slavery.