If you treat another human being like cattle, murdering them for disobedience, torturing them for trying to escape, then IMO you have forfeited your right to exist. It may be cold, but the world needs more Rambo.
The North may have still had some slaves, but it was Lincolns moves to start to abolish it that set Southern politicians foaming at the mouth. The North was more sensitive to the idea of what freedom was, the South's barbarism is what started secessionism.
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