The key to understanding your post is #4: The South Lost. (I know you didn’t read the article by the way.) Might makes right? Are you therefore against all rebellion? Are you anti-Washington (George)? You speak of power, but what you really argue against is self-determination. To hate Southern rebels sways into hypocrisy if you support the original rebellion my friend.
(I know you didn’t read the article by the way.)
Is that because you know the link doesn’t work?
No. My support for the original rebellion is not hypocracy. Taxation by England of the colonists enacted by a legislature where the colonists were not and could not be represented was wrong. England made war against the Colonists in support of that wrong. Because England was wrong, England lost. England’s loss was codified by treaty with the United States.
The rebellion of the southern states was not justified. No state has a right to unilaterally leave the union. Legitimate disputes between the states and the federal government were required by the constitution to be settled by application to the supreme court. The southern rebels recognized they had no legitimate dispute. When the southern rebels resorted to war, they chose a ‘might makes right’ approach. They lost that too.
George Washington was a Federalist, not a Jeffersonian.