Where in the Confederate Constitution grants Davis or the Confederate Congress the authority to negotiate away their rights. They were “still very much in the war” just as the Germans were “still very much in the war” with the Soviet Army on the outskirts of Berlin.
Bird-brain is hopelessly incapable of recognizing that either the confederates had a viable, functional constitution or they didn’t (hint: they did not). If they did, and it said what the confed constitution said, they would need to amend it to make their proposed treaty legal. If they were able to so casually subvert their constitution it meant that it wasn’t worth the paper it was scribbled on.
They couldn’t have it both ways. But (being democrats) that is exactly what they wanted to do - have it both ways. They wanted to pretend to a struggle for “freedom” but a freedom built upon the forced labor of other human beings. They wanted to hold their neighbor to the letter of the law even while they blithely trampled on it. They had the cheek to go to various European governments begging for assistance in their unholy scheme while simultaneously saying, “Don’t pay attention to what we’re doing - pay attentions to what we’re saying!”
I’m surprised that they didn’t fail due to sheer hubris.
This has been asked and answered already in the discussion with and reply to DoodleDawg.
This was Abe's War...the North had a "Civil War"; the South did not have a Civil War, the South wanted to Secede as did some of the other states in the North....Lincoln was a Tyrant, jailed those who disagreed with him and broke Constitutional Law where he pleased in order to keep on fighting....The Civil War was like all wars, horrible...the Union soldiers were like all conquering soldiers, they raped women, black and white, raped children, pillaged, stole, killed all animals.....that history was buried, it is now available.