Freeing the slaves does account for something. But setting Americans against each other in the country's bloodiest war, recklessly disregarding a long Constitutional principle (the right of political secession), debasing the money supply, instituting the income tax and the first American draft, throwing dissenters into prison, stifling the press . . . these things somehow offset the balance. |
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Darren Wolfe is the former Eastern Vice Chair of the Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania. He presently blogs as the International Libertarian http://www.theinternationallibertarian.blogspot.com/ His articles have also appeared in Ammoland.com, (more...)