Certainly you are not asserting that the slave power, that wanted continued authority to rape, torture, and kidnap, were good people motivated by good intentions?
That the people who demanded that fugitive slaves in northern states be returned with the cooperation of Northern state official wanted to be left alone?
Gracious! What whoppers!
No, I’m not asserting that about the Civil War, per se (though I’m far more ambivalent about the morality involved and the resulting damage than you appear to be). Rather, I referred to what appears to me to be the attitude in the federal government and among liberals in general that Constitutional patriots are the enemy and the danger, and those who FReepers would consider such are actually misunderstood and to be coddled and mollified.