Lord Acton supported the Confederacy precisely because he loved the federalist form of government and states’ rights (perhaps too fulsomely, as his love for those goods which were lost in the War Between the States seems to have made him overlook the evil of slavery which was abolished with them).
The winners write history: states’ rights were the issue in the Late Unpleasantness, but to cover up the fact that the wrong side of that issue won, the winners have portrayed the war as having been about slavery.
LMAO Its known in history as the American Civil War. I guess you believe Lincoln was a murdering tyrant too. Another Dixiecrat-Slavocrat libertarian, or would that be paleoconservative? Whatever. So who is your favortite Lincoln basher? My guess is, Thomas DiLorenzo.