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“The question of treason is distinct from that of slavery; and is the same that it would have been, if free States, instead of slave States, had seceded. On the part of the North, the war was carried on, not to liberate the slaves, but by a government that had always perverted and violated the Constitution, to keep the slaves in bondage; and was still willing to do so, if the slaveholders could thereby induced to stay in the Union. The principle, on which the war was waged by the North, was simply this: That men may rightfully be compelled to submit to, and support, a government that they do not want; and that resistance, on their part, makes them traitors and criminals”[5]

-- Abolishionist Lysander Spooner

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-- Abolishionist Anarchist Lysander Spooner

Any port in a storm, eh cva? Do you understand the context of Spooner's declaration? He was furious because the federal government hadn't raised an army sooner and come south to lay it to waste. He was indifferent to the notion of unity or protecting the Union - he just wanted to see slavers persecuted. Does that really sound like an ally to your cause?