It is amazing to be able to go back in history and see when people actually believed in the Constitution and were willing to sacrifice everything for it regardless of what side of the issue they were on. Most people today do not care nor do they realize what they are giving up by allowing the government to incrementally remove their freedoms.
I cannot imagine a Civil War debate on the Democratic Underground concerning itself too much about Constitutional issues. I isuspect the general tone would be: “all white Southerns were ignorant racists, all white Southerners are ignorant racists and all white Southerns will forever be ignorant racists unless they switch to the Democratic Party, the party of Lincoln and abolition”.
Well said!