[bjs1779]

And yet by April 27th Virginia had named Robert Lee as commander of the state forces which had been mobilized. They had also sent state troops to sieze the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry. The first hostile acts lay with Virginia, not Lincoln.

The Linclonized federal government seizes property everyday from citizens of this country for non-constitutional purposes. I know this timeframe is not relevant to you because if it doesn't take place in the 19th century, your "eyes glaze over". Good way to distance yourself from Walt though.

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The Linclonized federal government seizes property everyday from citizens of this country for non-constitutional purposes.

It's not so much as glazed eyes as it is muffled laughter, at least in this case. You blame Lincoln but how much worse would it have been for you had the south won? After all Davis was seizing private property 'for the war effort' from the get go. Nationalizing industry, confiscatory income taxes, seizing private property, trampling on the constitution, those are all Davis legacies rather than Lincoln legacies.