How can you claim destruction of the United States was not the goal? The south seceeded 11 states - 1/3 of the nation - and took the property with them. Their goal was dissolution of the United States.
If you really wish the Confederacy had won, if you believe they were right, how can you fly the U.S. flag?
Ignoring the logical fallacy of the question (a negative cannot be proved.)
Dissolving the union that was, in no way implies the destruction of union that remained. All Abe needed to say was "Fare thee well."
I admit to being mostly absent on the thread; but, whence this "destruction of the United States"?
I s'wan, it sho' sound like Walt. Lawd a mucy.
Wrong. The Feb 4 assembly of the Southern delegates argued two names for their confederacy of states:
The intent was to show concurrance of the Constitution and to show the northern states were the violators - not the southern states.