Today’s Union government is a direct descsendent of that one. Now, instead of tariffs, it’s income tax, forcing ev’s, trying to disarm the populace, jail and no trial for many, killing people in their Ruby Ridge redoubt, burning people in their Waco compound,persecuting and prosecuting political opponents, mandating toilet flushes and certain light bulbs. The list of wrongs is endless. In other words, it’s infinitely worse than it was in 1861.
The confederacy had a bigger Government than the Union. Yes, Lincoln was too much of a Whig. That would not have happened under Jackson, who would hav3 crushed treason quickly. Lincoln was a softy.