"Have you always felt the seceding of the South was a matter of justice?"

No.

The North objected to slavery on moral grounds, and when the South wanted to extend slavery into the Western Territories, Lincoln and the Republican Party opposed the big, slave-owning plantation owners (my, how things have changed!). That's when the South's move to secede began.

I don't believe Ireland had a slavery issue. Did they?

Don Firth