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Sorry, but according to the Vice President of the Confederacy, slavery was the very basis of what they were doing. If you support the South, you are supporting their ability to own people as property. By buying into their whole "We just wanted to leave in peace" load of crap, you are apologizing for that.
Sorry, but you're being childish. I said once, and I'll repeat, no one is apologizing for slavery. By buying into the whole "If you support secession you support slavery" argument you are engaging in a logical fallacy and attempting to demonize your opponant, trying to claim the moral high ground on an issue that isn't the point of topic.
First of all, there was no CSA. It was a very loose association of "free states." If there was a CSA, they might have won, but Davis couldn't get the states to raise troops and money for the other states. What you fail to address about Ft. Sumter is what right South Carolina had to it after they had already ceded it to the United States.
This would be second actually, but regardless, now you are trying to create an alternative narrative.
It could not have been possible. Would the South come back peacefully if asked? No. But you ask the opposite question and then declare Lincoln a "tyrant" because he had the guts to fight a war that needed to be fought.
You missed the entire argument completely. The South shouldn't have to of had to come back peacefully, because the South shouldn't have had to come back at all. Self determination was the argument, and Lincoln denying those States their right to it is why he is a tyrant.