"Lincoln’s War also effectively overthrew the existing decentralized, limited federal government that had existed and governed well in the US since established by America’s founding fathers. Lincoln bastardized a respected federal government with limited powers into a dictatorial, uncontrollable Washington federal empire." If you asked the people who fought and died in it, they would tell you:
- The South fought for the independence necessary to protect it's "peculiar institution."
- The North fought to save the Union and abolish the South's "peculiar institution."
Results of the Civil War were: Union saved, slavery abolished, Federal Government strengthened.
However, the US Federal Government of 1865 did not even remotely resemble the monstrosity we see today.
“If you asked the people who fought and died in it, they would tell you:”
They fought against a simple title {United STATE of America}..Understand?
“Federal Government strengthened.”
By Force,of course