Those who illegally seceded from the Union were thugs and criminals, and got what they deserved.
The North wasn't after the South to free its slaves, it was after preserving the Union against outlaws who were dead in the wrong. The SOUTH seceded because slavery was threatened.
And before you go off on that blather about how most Southerners didn't have slaves (which in itself is untrue, since most of the time we think of the plantation owners as the slavers, when just about every family above the level of hardscrabble existence had at least one or two. It was what you did, just as in Latin America in our own day most middle-class families have servants) READ THIS detailed explanation written by a Southern newspaperman about why the "poor folks" of the South fought also to protect the institution of African slavery.
Blathering? Before I go blathering? Why don't you stuff it, Illbay? You don't have the manners God gave a rabbit.