Who Knew?
The Ends Justify The Means
...for Republi-Tards too.
Ironic how a precedent was set for how to deal with that problem 30yrs prior by the UK,
which honored the eminent domain clause of the USA's 5th Amendment regarding personal Property.
Maybe The Republicans could have chosen that civil path to full resolution of that problem?
Instead, with vastly superior numbers, Lincoln suspended habeus corpus, and trained tens of thousands of troops, then went on the Offensive against friends and neighbors, and by force,
and at gunpoint, compelled them against their Will on killing fields and seized their properties.
(One fine example being Robert E. Lee's wifes Rose Garden at home becoming the tomb of the unknown soldier, and the rest of his plantation becoming Arlington Cemetery; precisely because he led the U.S. Marines at Harpers Ferry to bring in John Brown alive upon which Reverend Brown was tried and hanged for storming a U.S. Weapons depot, stealing artifacts from the great nephew of George Washington, and taking hostages at gunpoint.)
How the Republicans Freed the Slaves, the methods of how they did it is not noble,
yet rather it is vicious
The five continental railroads surveyed by the Topographical Corps of Engineers under Jeff Davis,
he wished to use available free labor to complete his Atlanta to San Diego and LA routes first.
Lincoln's pals such as Railroad President turned General, McLellan whom had earlier surveyed for Jeff Davis, had other Labor Plans, to bring in Chinese, Irish, and Germans at
minimal pay to accomplish the same task and build all 5 railroads connecting entire west coast first to Chicago. This paragraph sums up the nobility of Republicans "Reconstruction" efforts post Civil War.