Freedom needs to be awakened. It is your choice, and yours alone, to live under the watchful eye of big brother. I do not except tyranny, not from you, not from Obama, and not from Lincoln.
You may like the status qou, but you will never get me our my heirs to submit.
I wonder what the average blue belly's reaction would have been if they were told 150 years from now, the most productive members of society would be so scrutinized and enslaved that every penny earned and invested would have to be accounted for and half his income confiscated by the Federal government every year and a portion given to the laziest to spend without accountability. Also, since the Union would win the war the South would be subjected to the same treatment after suffering through a dozen or more years of tyranny.