In those years, a rising notion that a person should not be owned as one would own a dog or a horse was becoming widely held. Slavery had been outlawed in most Northern States.
Those folks had a moral view that slavery was wrong. It did not matter that it was ensconced in the Constitution.
Just as today, there are those that believe Roe V Wade and it’s consequences are immoral, even though it is the law of the land. There are those that believe that it morally acceptable.
Do you believe that slavery is morally acceptable.
There is evidence - strong evidence - that you are right. Many in the North did not care what the Constitution said. They had the bayonets to overthrow the pro-slavery U. S. Constitution and - according to this version of history - they did fight to overthrow it. Or at least substitute a synthetic Constitution.
Famed Lincoln biographer Garry Wills writes it went down like this: “Lincoln, at Gettysburg, performed one of the most daring acts of open-air sleight-of-hand ever witnessed by the unsuspecting. Everyone in that vast throng of thousands was having his or her intellectual pocket picked. The crowd departed with a new thing in its ideological luggage, that new constitution Lincoln had substituted for the one they brought there with them. They walked off, from those curving graves on the hillside, under a changed sky, into a different America. Lincoln had revolutionized the Revolution, giving people a new past to live with that would change their future indefinitely.”
“Just as today, there are those that believe Roe V Wade and it’s consequences are immoral, even though it is the law of the land.”
Correct.
I am opposed to abortion and I’ll tell you this: I have never murdered an abortion doctor and I’ve never burned down the home of an abortion doctor, or destroyed their crops, killed their livestock, or poisoned their wells.
And I’ve never killed an innocent bystander while attempting to kill an abortion doctor.
Do you know why?