-The West Coast- wrote:The Confederacy was allowed to rebel and try to overthrow a government they saw as tyrannical. It's our natural, unalienable right as Americans, nay, our basic duty as men to deny a tyrannical government the ability to govern any further. Not only was their action to rebel and attempt to overthrow perfectly legal, it also had precedent. 1776. Calling them treasonous rebels is incorrect. They were the most patriotic Americans of the time.
The hell they were. They betrayed the Union in order to defend an outmoded and immoral institution. The US government under Lincoln was in no way tyrannical. The south brought it upon themselves by having a split democratic running in the election, which made them end up losing. In 1776 they were ruled by a monarchy and sought freedom, but in 1861 they only sought oppression for slaves and division of the Union.