You are not very well read, are you? You wouldn't know treason if it bit your mentally deficient butt. Tell you what, Einstein.... I will pay you $50 if you can show me anywhere in the US Constitution as it existed in 1860 where secession was prohibited. As a matter of fact, genius, four of the original thirteen states included a written reservation of a right to withdraw from the Union at their own discretion in their
ratification statements. Those states were NY, RI, VA, and SC. Below are the links to the word-for-word transcriptions. I doubt you have the education to look it up yourself.
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/ratva.ashttps://history.nycourts.gov/ratification-statement/https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/ratri.asphttps://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/ratsc.aspIn case you didn't notice, the source is Yale Law School. I realize that is not as authoritative as
Salon or
Raw Story or some other brainless Liberal rag, (at least in your eyes) but do try and keep up.
As for Robert E Lee and Stonewall Jackson, you appear to be clueless there, also. Not surprising. Robert E Lee never purchased a slave. The few he inherited he freed in accordance with the terms of the will which bequeathed them to him. Stonewall Jackson owned six slaves. Three he inherited, two he freed, and one child that was learning disabled whom no one wanted. He took the child in when no one else would.
There were four slave states that remained in the Union, home to some half million slaves. These slaves were ignored by the Emancipation Proclamation. Among them were the four owned by one Julia Dent Grant, wife to Ulysses of the same surname. Ever hear of him? Rather than free her slaves, Mrs Grant gave them to her father who lived nearby so she and the good general could benefit from their bondage while avoiding the sobriquet of slave owner.
Last but not least, you cannot commit treason against a foreign country. The slave states had seceded. There is nowhere in the Constitution that said they could not. Why did Robert E Lee petition to have his citizenship reinstated? If he was already a citizen, it was unnecessary, and if not, there was no treason. Lee resigned from the US Army before he was even offered a position with the Virginia militia.
I have tried to clarify this without using too many big words, since you may not have anyone available to explain them to you.
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