I’m not supporting slavery or trying to minimize how bad it was. Still, if slavery was a “festering cancer”, then the cure killed the patient, which we can thank for no longer living in a constitutional republic. Instead of letting the slave states go their way and be judged by God on their own, we decided that somehow, in less than a century, Americans had lost the right of self-determination, and appointed our President as a little King George. Justify that all you want, but it sure doesn’t seem moral to me.
Except that - your hyperbole aside, no one “killed the patient”, we do still live in a constitutional republic, we haven’t lost the right of self-determination, and no one appointed anyone as a “little King George”.
Other than that I would tend to agree ;-)