09-27-2016, 12:58 PM
(09-27-2016, 09:24 AM)Warren Dew Wrote:(09-26-2016, 03:06 AM)taramarie Wrote: I am unfamiliar with the aftermath of the civil war so I do not know how things were patched up after it.
There were a couple decades of "reconstruction", during which carpetbaggers from the north went south to lord it over southerners. Then southern whites regained power and we got the institutionalized racism that lasted from the late 19th century to 1960 or so. Basically there was no patching up, just continued disagreement with one side winning at a time.
True enough. Ironically, letting the southern states leave would have ended slavery without the high body count since the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 would not have been in force. Having, what were in effect, high cost assets walking off with no way to recover them would have made the institution uneconomic. As it was, many northern states were using nullification, sometimes known as states rights, to make it very hard to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act.
Abolitionists, such as William Lloyd Garrison, wanted the northern states to secede based on the idea that associating with slave states was immoral. This put the abolitionists at odds with Lincoln.
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If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises