[Cardfan1]

Secession was not treason. If you disagree, then try putting together a list of all of those Confederate soldiers and elected officials who were tried and convicted of treason. I never said that slavery was not a factor in southern states decision to secede, but then you already know that, don't you? What I said was that most southerners did not own slaves and most Confederate soldiers did not join the fight to preserve the institution of slavery.

As for toppling statues, none of the thugs engaging in that modern day practice fought or won a war. Mobs have no inherent right to destroy or deface public property and you should be ashamed for defending their crimes.

How do you know that people who served our country didn’t participate in the destruction of racist traitors’ statues?

So colonists had no right to destroy those King George statues?

Northern citizens and politicians of the time saw it as treason. The traitors saw it as their right. They lost, so it was treason. It works like that.
If the South would have won, it would have been secession.

Corruption kept traitors’ heads out of the noose. You know that.

All this spinning and attempting to dilute the point...Do you really believe we should have monuments celebrating the Confederacy on public land? Seriously?