NIce choice for a user name.
Folks didn’t need to get slaugtered and raped and disillusioned, to oppose slavery. Government is needed for nothing, if it can not preserve it’s initial tenat ‘preserve the people.’ How would civility as it has and does more justly served the end of liberty rather than a cruel means to justify a common end. Peace, freedom, joy, these are all of course common ends. Not all means justify right ends. I preach to the chior, I’m sure.
I think free markets do it better all the time and in every way more effeciently than any other systems. Why wouldn’t the market moraly object, as they somewhat do today with the fear of licking bright paint and so on.
My impression is: in hindsight all involved would of rightfully been on the side of I prefer not to harm my brother. Perhaps ‘the war of forced unity’, ended the experiment, and todays america is ex delicto?