[Conservative til I die]

What on earth gave you that idea. The first Republican president gave us the war of northern agression and subjugated the entire south to what amounted to martial law and suspended constitutional rights in the north. And things went downhill from there....

Oh boy, Confederacy apologists, just what we need. These folks are as bad as the WOD jackboots.

Now all we need is someone to say the Vatican is controlled by the Freemasons and Zionist Jews control the world's gold supplies.

[thoughtomator]

Well, to be equitable, it must be admitted that, other than ending slavery (which was an enormous good, no doubt), the results of the Civil War were detrimental to the rule of law under the Constitution. The Ninth and Tenth Amendments, for example, went right into the toilet with the Confederacy.