I have never heard anyone give a logical explanation why it would ever be morally wrong to start a rebellion against slavery.
You can disagree with his tactics and timing, and you can worry about the collateral damage of such a rebellion, but you cannot simultaneously support the US Declaration of Independence and believe that John Brown was morally wrong.
US slaves had infinitely greater cause to rebel against their masters than Americans ever had to rebel against the British Crown.
The only way you can support both positions is to assert that slaves (or blacks) aren’t really men within the meaning of the Declaration. Which was exactly the position eventually taken by Chief Justice Taney in the Dred Scott decision.
BWahahahaha! The DoI asserted that men were equal (no divine right of Kings), free to decide which form of government they preferred. John Brown was a mass murderer, a lunatic. The framers were neither. HUGE difference.
Which was exactly the position eventually taken by Chief Justice Taney in the Dred Scott decision.
Bravos Sierra. The federal Congress limited military service to whites, and limited naturalization to whites. Even Lincoln believed that he was superior to blacks.