What did Confederates want to preserve?

A #Constitutional #Republic that #Lincoln ultimately destroyed.

If they wanted to “preserve” slavery (which was not unconstitutional and not illegal above or below the Mason Dixion Line), they could have simply accepted The Northern backed Lincoln endorsed #Corwin #Amendment which passed both houses of Congress with NO SOUTHERN VOTES if they ended “the secession crisis” and returned to the Union which would have granted the South free access to slavery in perpetuity.

Later in the war the same offer was made twice only if those times the South laid down arms and returned to the Union.

All three times the offers were refused making the ongoing #lie the South ”fought to keep people enslaved” revisionist poppycock, but said #revisionism and 160+ years of Northern falsehood has 95% of the nation's population convinced the South seceeded and suffered the worst war in American history so that a fraction of their upper class could retain something they were already eliminating through peacefull manumission.