-Caveat Lector-
nessie wrote:
>
> If violence is not a wholly appropriate method for dealing with people who
> exploit slave labor, then the American Civil War was a mistake.
The pretense that the "abolition of slavery" was either
a motive or justification for the war, is a fraud of
the same character with that of "maintaining the
national honor." Who, but such usurpers, robbers, and
murderers as they, ever established slavery? Or what
government, except one resting upon the sword, like the
one we now have, was ever capable of maintaining
slavery? And why did these men abolish slavery? Not
from any love of liberty in general---not as an act of
justice to the black man himself, but only "as a war
measure," and because they wanted his assistance, and
that of his friends, in carrying on the war they had
undertaken for maintaining and intensifying that
political, commercial, and industrial slavery, to which
they have subjected the great body of the people, both
black and white. And yet these imposters now cry out
that they have abolished the chattel slavery of the
black man---although that was not the motive of the
war---as if they thought they could thereby conceal,
atone for, or justify that other slavery which they
were fighting to perpetuate, and to render more
rigorous and inexorable than it ever was before.
There was no difference of principle---but only of
degree---between the slavery they boast they have
abolished, and the slavery they were fighting to
preserve; for all restraints upon men's natural
liberty, not necessary for the simple maintenance
of justice, are of the nature of slavery, and
differ from each other only in degree.
If their object had really been to abolish slavery,
or maintain liberty or justice generally, they had only
to say: All, whether white or black, who want the
protection of this government, shall have it; and all
who do not want it, will be left in peace, so long as
they leave us in peace. Had they said this, slavery
would necessarily have been abolished at once; the war
would have been saved; and a thousand times nobler
union than we have ever had would have been the result.
It would have been a voluntary union of free men; such
a union as will one day exist among all men, the world
over, if the several nations, so called, shall ever get
rid of the usurpers, robbers, and murderers, called
governments, that now plunder, enslave, and destroy
them....
The lesson taught by all these facts is this: As
long as mankind continue to pay "national debts,"
so-called---that is, so long as they are such dupes
and cowards as to pay for being cheated, plundered,
enslaved, and murdered -- so long there will be enough
to lend the money for those purposes; and with that
money a plenty of tools, called soldiers (police), can
be hired to keep them in subjection. But when they refuse
any longer to pay for being thus cheated, plundered,
enslaved, and murdered, they will cease to have cheats,
and usurpers, and robbers, and murderers and
blood-money loan-mongers for masters.
--Lysander Spooner
No Treason No. VI; Chapter 19 (1870)
<http://www.buildfreedom.com/ft/spooner.htm>
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