What Lincoln did was not to free the slaves as much as to make slaves of us all to the Union system of centralized, powerful government that has now grown into a budding monarchy. I don't know about a monarchy, but we are very close to being ruled by a handful of urban centers.We very nearly lost the last election to Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, Milwaukee/Madison, Boston, Minneapolis, Baltimore and New Orleans. I don't think the Founding Fathers envisioned the child of their making ruled by ten or eleven cities.
"I don't think the Founding Fathers envisioned the child of their making ruled by ten or eleven cities."
That's because the Founding Fathers expected a more distributed system of control, such that the states had more say in the daily affairs of people instead of the federal gov't. If that were still the case then it wouldn't be possible to hamstring the whole country by the whims of a handful of (mostly) liberal large cities.