The Federal Reserve System might be rapidly debasing the US Dollar, but several states are making it easier to own gold. The "barbarous relic" is gaining economic status.
If we say secession in the name of national liberation is bad, we end up supporting the Soviet Union, and every empire or two-bit dictator who manages to hammer together a variety of disparate groups under a single national banner.
After peace came in 1783, the new republic faced a twofold economic adjustment: to peacetime from the artificial production and trade patterns during the war, and to a far different trading picture than had existed before the war.
