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It was not necessary.
Much the same could be said for our Revolutionary War. Just think how all that stuff that had folks so riled up at the time would have been resolved if we had just left well-enough alone.
The East India Company was dissolved in 1874. That would have put an end to that silly tea kerfuffle.
Slavery was abolished throughout the British Empire in 1833, so that would have settled that issue before Prime Minister (Governor?) A. Lincoln would have felt compelled to come to grips with it.
Independence from Britain would have come about in due time, just as it did for Australia, Canada, Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, and a bunch of other places around the world that used to keep the sun from setting on the British Empire.
Best of all, we would have had universal, single-payer health care and would be as loath to get rid of it as the Limeys, Canucks, Diggers, and Kiwis are, thus totally avoiding all this rancorous fuss about Obamacare.
And, just imagine, we'd have a parliamentary system of government with real debates about issues of substance, MPs who would occupy their time formulating legislation and exchanging elegantly phrased insults, instead of dialing for dollars, and election campaigns that lasted only a couple of weeks, at most, and only cost a fraction of what is wasted on them now.
As for slavery, I agree with Prof. DiLorenzo, the institution was nothing more sinister than acceptable, standard practice for its day and most unfairly maligned by those socially constipated Yankees, the abolitionists.
I'll point out in slavery's defense that unemployment was never lower among African-Americans then it was then. Upward mobility was, of course, somewhat limited, but there's a lot to be said for job security with fee health care, housing, food, and entertainment provided free of charge with Gone With the Wind performed live at The Big House.
In fact, it was not only in the owners self-interest to take as good care of their slaves as they did of their other property, but there is also plenty of evidence that they truly loved them. That's why Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has yet to discover a black American who doesn’t not have some admixture of white in her/his genes.
Yessir, when you come right down to it, all of history is simply a continuum of premature, mostly bloody, over-reactions to issues that would have resolved themselves in due time if people would have just have cultivated a little patience.
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If God is watching us, the least we can do is be entertaining. (St. Hilarius)
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