“While it was morally and constitutionally wrong for the insurrection to have occurred in the first place, its failure was a good thing and the efforts to put it down were righteous indeed.”
How will you feel when it happens again for reasons of gross Constitutional abuse and Liberty deprivation from a tyrannical Government? It won’t be another revolution because there will be significant numbers of people who would live with the new rule.
Then it would occur in circumstances radically different from the circumstances that attended the Civil War.
It won’t be another revolution because there will be significant numbers of people who would live with the new rule.
In other words, it would reflect the will of the people and proceed according to the consent of the governed.