@martyrmade Nicely worded. It’s something I’ve struggled to fully rationalize myself. Did a federal government and half the states have the moral standing to prevent the other half from leaving? We will never know if an amicable split would have been better or even been possible.
@martyrmade Most Democrats have no idea what the Civil War was about.
@martyrmade Damn guy seen my soul. Powerful stuff.
@martyrmade Nice. Great share.
@martyrmade Well, I mean just because he said it makes it true, right?
@martyrmade @DeTocqueville14 @getawarrant1 @JoshBillings3 Lysander Spooner was a major influence on my intellectual path. He took the abolitionist view to the next logical level in the nineteenth century. I am a proud owner of all of his writing.
@martyrmade He is correct. And we are living in the victory come of age.
@martyrmade This quote is such a good reminder that history is written by the victors. So much of what we assume as good and evil is mostly propaganda