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This nation has paid a bitter price for slavery, and continues to today with the rampant welfare system and anti-constitutional minority voting block.

If there'd been no slavery at all in the South, there would still have been a civil war. The Northern industrialists and old Whigs were determined to wrest control of the national agenda away from the South permanently, and they'd have picked a fight over something -- the Morrill Tariff, for instance.

In the 1830's the issue had been Nullification, which was provoked by the Tariff of Abominations.

The North was looking for a way to knock the South out of the box permanently. That's what civil wars are made of.

The South had no "national agenda" other than expanding and preserving slavery. It is unthinkable without slavery. Slavery distorted the economy by pouring investment capital into slaves. It distorted its peoples' social development by institutionalizing the fiction that one race was superior to and deserving to own the other.

Without slavery the development of the South would have been much more like that of the north. Its industries would have grown under the tariff, its labor force would have been free and able to develop as that of the North. Slavery destroyed the South and crippled its people, in many ways, for the next hundred years.

If Hamiltonianism hadn't destroyed it during the War, it would have been some other modern industrial capitalist power since the system of slavery was in conflict with the entire Western world not just the Northern states. The Ruling Class would have never given up its slaves, voluntarily.