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Keep talking out your ass you Lost Cause Loser.

Well, bless your heart for the invite.

After the war was decided, men of the South accepted the situation of affairs in good faith. The questions which had divided the sentiment of the people of the two sections, slavery and State rights, or the right of a State to secede from the Union, were regarded as having been settled forever by the highest tribunal, arms.

There was such general acquiescence in the authority of the government throughout the southern states, that the mere presence of a military force, without regard to numbers, was sufficient to maintain order. The good of the country, and required that the force kept in the interior, where there are many freedmen. Elsewhere in the Southern States, other than at coastal forts, no force was necessary.

In some of the States, the Freedman's Bureau affairs were not conducted with good judgment, and the belief, widely spread among the freedmen of the Southern States, that the lands of their former owners would, at least in part, be divided among them, has came from agents of this bureau.

Many, perhaps the majority, of the agents of the Freedmen’s Bureau advised the freedmen that they were expected to live by their own industry. They worked to secure employment for them. In some instances, the freedman’s mind was not disabused of the idea that a freedman had the right to live without care or provision for the future. The effect of the belief in division of lands was idleness and accumulation in camps, towns, and cities.

Am I right, or am I a Lost Causer? You can say it. You know I'm right.