[lentulusgracchus]

They had a moral reason--creating a sound financial system

Oh, well! That sounds like a perfectly good reason to cut a few hundred thousand throats.

We must have a sound financial system -- no matter what it costs somebody else!

[Brugmansian]

We must have a sound financial system -- no matter what it costs somebody else! Oh, well! That sounds like a perfectly good reason to cut a few hundred thousand throats.

Not a good argument as the aristocracy Jefferson represented were slaveholders. Haven't referred to the civil war at all in any of my comments. The Republic Federalists had created was radically altered by Jefferson's faction almost 60 years earlier. Everything else flowed from that.