[rockrr]

Loyalty to the United States is sacred?

Only if your word means anything.

It's funny you don't use the same rhetoric about George Washington. Why is that?

We weren't talking about George Washington.

Slavery ended peacefully almost everywhere else in the world. It would have ended peacefully in the South too, without half a million corpses and resentments that last to this day..

Where would the incentive lie to eventual, peaceful emancipation when you’ve just violently broken your sacred vows to your nation and broken away in order to form a would-be nation conceived upon and dedicated to the preservation of slavery?

[DarkSavant]

We weren't talking about George Washington.

I know you won't answer. If you answered truthfully you would be shown to be a hypocrite.

Only if your word means anything. I only let my yes mean yes and my no mean no. There's no loyalty to a secular government. My only loyalty is to God.

Where would the incentive lie to eventual, peaceful emancipation The Union just had to not invade the South, simple, no?

In order to form a would-be nation conceived upon and dedicated to the preservation of slavery?

Neither side was the good guy, but at the end I would side with my people against a hostile aggressor.... who also owned slaves. Slavery would be ended soon enough, like everywhere else in the world. Federal hegemony would not. It exists to this day, and is the reason the Left has managed to usurp our rights so effectively to this very day. One need to think in generations, not months.