It's not fortune-telling, or predicting the future. The court address seizure of property: 'Unquestionably, in such cases, the government is bound to make full compensation to the owner.'
Understand that?
People are not property; understand that?
This is SO typical of the neo-confederate rant. Neo-rebs will pound the table and say, "Show me where the Constitution explicitly forbids secession," but when the shoe is on the other foot, they resort to the sort of implication they won't allow from the loyal side.
Walt
Abraham Lincoln did consider slaves to be property. Try Matson v. Rutherford (111. Cir. Ct. 1847). Lincoln argued that Jane Bryant and her four children, as escaped property, should be returned to Robert Matson.