[Le Chien Rouge]

I absolutely agree that we, as a nation, inherited slavery from Britain, absolutely agree that the federal government essentially enslaved the South following the Civil War with it’s intrusion on states rights and absolutely agree
that the North greatly economically benefited from slavery.

I would add that there were(still are) Northern hypocrites regarding the issue of slavery.

However, my disgust over keeping a people, based on race, enslaved is a human rights issue and not a Southern bashing/pro North issue.

[phi11yguy19]

However, my disgust over keeping a people, based on race, enslaved is a human rights issue and not a Southern bashing/pro North issue.

Fair enough. Unfortunately there are many who cannot discuss the events of those days without distorting the discussion with the emotions of slavery.

The unfortunate truth (from a sympathetic northerner) is Lincoln destroyed the separation of powers between the fed and the states inherent with the constitutional compact, and usurped the powers separated into the legislative and judiciary branches all into the executive. Effectively, the original constitution is a now just a figment of historians, kept around to keep us at ease like the old Roman Senate during the rule of the Caesars.

Now we all sleep comfortably knowing we're protected by our constitution while our federal government takes 1/2 of the fruits of our labor directly to ruin our agriculture and education, support the killing of tens of millions of babies, control our access to health care, etc. etc. How far we've come when such things were "reserved to the States respectively, or to the people".