When the “economic heart” is based upon holding fellow human beings as chattel, then maybe that heart needed to be stripped out.
Lead by example. Remember a number of Union States held slaves (i.e., MD, MO, DE, WV, KY). Further, the war was fought “To Preserve the Union” not free the slaves. Lincoln thought he could win quick and be done with it. He was wrong. If the Union had followed its Constitution, there would have been no War. The fact was the Federal Government at the time was financed by land sales in western frontiers and tariffs. Its largest source of revenue came from tariffs on exported agricultural goods, first of which was cotton. Get your facts straight.
One eye opener, is Lincoln and Teddy are the only Republicans leftist ever liked.
You might want to do the same. Tariffs are applied to imported goods, not exports. Per Article I, Section 9: "No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State."
Slavery was still legal in the City of Washington DC at that time, also, wasn’t it?
Word that! People forget that or don’t know it’s duplicity.