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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.

That was my point exactly. I don't think the confederacy is in need of an apologist, but Lincoln sure is. Remember that slavery was not the reason that Lincoln went to war, but to preserve the "union". Or more succinctly put, to subjugate the south to northern rule. The end of slavery was perhaps the only good thing to come out of that but I believe that without the war of norther agression, slavery would have died a natural death in the south as mounting pressure from Europe and the north and a growing elightenment would have forced the south to be a little more introspective. I find it curious that people who point out that what Lincoln did was wrong, immoral and to the detriment of both the Union and the Confederacy are somehow branded as conspiracy theorist and lumped with the tin-foil hat gang.