If they violated the laws of the United States, yes I do.
Now, through the prism of time and history we know they were patriots. But many of their countrymen at the time called them murderers, monsters, and traitors. And their government wanted them captured, arrested, and would have executed many of them.
The depravity and wikedness of abortion exceeds that of King George...and yet we call it legal, and protect the depraved individuals who engage in the butchery. It is time we pulled the blinders off and looked at that buthery head on and burned the light of truth into the hesrts and souls of those who engage in and support it.
But as with slavry, we may find that, that is not enough. Our forefathers discovered that about the moral depravity of their day.
John Brown and his crimes and conviction and execution come to mind. What he did was illegal...but pailed in comparison to what came later, and he was shown to be on the right side of history, despite his crimes. He just went to war well before most others.