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Originally Posted by The One and Only
And Kelly, what are you smoking? The fact that the US forced the Confederacy to rejoin the union shows that it did not recognize the succession.
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They respected it with the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives lost on both sides you disrespectul little twat. You're talking about one of our finest presidents trying to hold his country together throughout a crisis that was neither addressed nor defined in the Constitution. Nothing in the Constitution gave the states rights to autonomy. He was basically making do as he went along the best way he knew how.
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Originally Posted by ziggytrix
Fascinating Fact: It is significant that no Confederate leader was ever brought to trial for treason. A trial would have brought a verdict on the constitutional legality of secession. Federal prosecutors were satisfied with the verdict that had been decided in battle.
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And to reiterate what Ziggytrix said (above), they were certainly treated better than most post-war military.
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Originally Posted by Helm
semblances of authority ( read: state ) always come to exist purely through the inequalities that emerge, and the reactionary forces that maintain them to their benefit.
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Granted, those "semblance of authority" benefit most but aren't a lot more people benefiting from the order and security created by the "reactionary forces" than without even if they're at the bottom of the pyramid, so to speak?