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Those who supported Brown and his actions were similar to those who support people who kill abortionists or blow up abortion clinics. They come from the fringe.

This is not true.

Brown's supporters after-the-fact included the cream of New England's intellectuals and upper society. Thoreau, Emerson, Bryant -- all supported Brown, Thoreau in particularly bloodthirsty language. Walt Whitman was almost alone in his denunciation of Brown.

The South noticed. And that was the end of the Union.

What followed has been a sectional Empire founded on blood, money, and violence.

Southern States still can't hold an election, 43 years later, without "pre-clearance" from the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department. How is that anything but abjection and humiliation? It certainly isn't the Union of Washington and Jefferson.

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What followed has been a sectional Empire founded on blood, money, and violence.

ROTFLMAO!!!

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What followed has been a sectional Empire founded on blood, money, and violence.

Sadly, all that was present from the beginning. You can't seriously portray the Civil War as a fall from Paradise, since there were some very unedenic elements in our country even before Lincoln.