Lysander Spooner was a RABID adolitionists. His main contribution was the collapse of America's greatest invention: Federalism. In "freeing" the slave they ensalved us all under the yoke of a general government. Which is now a far cry from what the Framers intended. Because of him an those like him, We got a Lincoln at a time when the country needed a Wilberforce............ As yourself a simple qestion; What did the Abolitionists have to abolish to be successful? They make Bernie Madoff look like a petty thief.