Eliminate The Government? Eliminate The Libertarians

From "The Four Biggest Libertarian Myths About the Civil War":

    "The governments of Cuba and Brazil could pass laws abolishing slavery in their own countries. Parliament could pass a law abolishing slavery in its Caribbean colonies. The revolutionary French republic had abolished it in Haiti. But the United States Congress could not abolish slavery in the southern states because the Constitution didn’t allow it.

Lincoln could emancipate large numbers of slaves as a military necessity in wartime, but that’s not abolition, and it only ended up freeing about fourteen percent of the slaves. He could pressure states to abolish slavery, but he only got five slave states to do it—leaving slavery legal in ten states when the war ended. The truth is that only way to get slavery abolished was by rewriting the Constitution. That’s why we ended up with a Thirteenth Amendment."

So much for eliminating government as a rallying cry for blacks,…