I believe the Civil War was the price we had to pay in blood for the sin of slavery in a free republic.
That said, my studies say the route to war was not over the issue of slavery itself - but rather the right of individual states to resist an encroaching federal power.
Hinton Rowan Helper’s idea to impose a federal tax on slaves and then cotton itself - was seen as a mechanism to do two things: tax slavery out of existence, and punish states that did not follow Federal dictates - (Obamacare anyone?)
The South saw this as an infringement on their 10th Amendment rights and the argument became centered on Federal power versus State power. It ultimately led to the decision by the Federal beast that states had no right to resist nor secede.
Much of what Robert E. Lee wrote as to the reasons for his refusal to take command of the Union Army corroborate that fact.
When you consider homosexual marriage, ObamaCare and the Alphabet agencies running roughshod over individual and state rights - the precursors to the civil war, are now a precedent for the Federal Beast to do exactly what it did in 1861 - and call out troops to enforce it’s demands if needs be. Wherefore anyone opposing the Federal Beast would be considered a ‘traitor’ and a ‘rebel’.
And such is the rhetoric coming out of the current Federal Beast and the Oligarchy that rules us all.
Don’t you know that no matter what facts you present it makes no difference. Way too many people in this country have minds that are too closed and will never admit when they’re wrong.
Only 3% of the population is gay. Yet 100% is being forced to not only accept it, but to promote it. Gay wedding cakes is an example. Your kids being taught in school that it’s okay to have two mommies is another. And that’s just the beginning.