[The Don]

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Let me start off by saying that I think it is a ridiculous notion that a person has rights, but people don't.

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Why? Explain to me how a group of people can have rights.

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According to you, governments have no rights. The Confederacy was a new government. Then, it logically follows, that the Confederacy had no rights. So why are you complaining that the Union waged war against them? The Confederates had no rights to life, liberty, or property, ACCORDING TO YOU. Therefore, killing them and taking their liberty and property did not violate any rights.

I'll wait for you to change your definition again, although I don't see how you could. Either the Union had rights, or the Confederacy did not.

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Individuals in the Confederacy had rights, and they were infringed upon by the Union government. This is not to say that the Confereracy didn't infringe on the rights of individuals who were citizens of the Union (Fort Sumter comes to mind). The North was just much worse about it.

You need to stop personifying government and groups of people. It is impossible to quantify human action.