It never fails to amaze me how you can equate opposition to the southern rebellion with being a liberal, especially given the socialistic tendencies of the Davis regime. It would seem to me that it would be his supporters who were the liberals.
Slavery is the biggest Big Government program there is. And, the Confederate government was very socialist, with wage and price controls, internal passports, government-owned industries, rationing, production and delivery directives to private industry, bans on most imports, and on and on.
I think it's more like equating support for invasion of the states to big-government. Dangerous in any hands, don't you think?
Now, I'm not sure that wishing fellow Americans were dead flows along political lines, but certainly the people who do so are worthy of contempt by those of us who agree that it takes all kinds.