You've set a good example for others to follow.
But we threw the baby out with the bath water to get something that was going to eventually happen anyways.
The good thing gained cost far too much. Far too much. We are still paying for it.
The price of liberty has always been high. Many, many Americans have given their lives for it.
But, the important thing here is that I wanted to acknowledge your courage in stating your views about slavery. As I pointed out in post 777, there are still a few people out there who are having trouble summoning up the courage to offer an opinion about slavery.
Good for you! ;-)
That is a Big Lie we hear often.
The truth is, in 1860 slavery had never been more profitable, and the Deep South never more prosperous.
Slavery, far from "fading away" was growing by leaps and bounds in the Deep South, so much so that hundreds of thousands of slaves were sold from Border States and Upper South to the Deep South to grow cotton.
So slavery was indeed fading in such states as Delaware and Maryland, but it was ever-growing in the Deep South.
Point two is that beginning with out Founders, plans were proposed to gradually abolish slavery in the South, including government buy-outs.
But no such plan was ever accepted by slave-holders.
So there's no indication that slavery would ever be voluntarily abolished in those states which valued it most.
DiogenesLamp: "The good thing gained cost far too much.
Far too much.
We are still paying for it."
It could have ended at any time, if the Confederacy had kept the peace, or later sued for peace.
If they had sued early in the war, they could even have kept their slaves.
But by war's end, that was not an option for them.
The blame for all the deaths, and all the negative consequences belongs to those Confederates who started Civil War, and refused to end it short of Unconditional Surrender.