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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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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Authors Bio:

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, American Juror, OpEdNews.com, the Libertarian Penn, and the Nolanchart.com. News services such as the New York Post.com and Rational Review have published links to his work. Darren is the Philadelphia area contact for Come Home America (http://comehomeamerica.us/), a politically neutral peace movement. Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/IntLibertarian