The independence minded Brits were never subjected to the ongoing insults that were showered on the Southern States by some agitators during the 1840s & 1850s. But that does not change the right of any people to seek to chart their own destiny--or to regain a former independence.
You need to re-read post 94. He was not vilifying the CSA at all.
I think you are replying to me by mistake. I am not vilifying the motives of the Confederate States. I have long argued that they had a right to leave the Union if they so wished. The Declaration of Independence outlines this as a fundamental human right, and this is a position that I have come to agree with.
The independence minded Brits were never subjected to the ongoing insults that were showered on the Southern States by some agitators during the 1840s & 1850s. But that does not change the right of any people to seek to chart their own destiny--or to regain a former independence.
I've read some of it. Elements in the North absolutely detested the Southerners, and not just because of slavery, though there was plenty of puritan intolerance vented on that.
A lot of people may not notice, but everyone in "flyover country" is still being talked down to by our moral superiors in New York. (and Los Angeles)