There is always the idealistic northerner who presents the image of the "ideal northerner's pure intentions" in that war. The fact that northerners also owned slaves (which were not freed by the emancipation proclamation) is conveniently discarded in the northerner's attempt to cast themselves and their ancestors in the heroic light of perfectionism.
History is rewritten by the victors of any conflict; just as the Vietnam Veterans Against the War rewrote the history of that conflict to cast John Kerry in the role of hero. Being controlled by the Communists, in essence they WERE the victors with the power to rewrite history.
So, now, your state or region absolutely cannot secede from the Union, just as you or your state or region must, in reality, bow to the many times insufferable and outlandish actions of the federal government. You have no recourse. We pay an awful lot of taxes, the likes of which would have gagged the founding fathers of this country. . and a lot of good is done with those taxes, but then there are the Pork Barrel Princes with a lifetime slot at the trough in this very powerful central government who shamelessly abuse our largesse.
If you like the concept of a very powerful central government, just wait until Hillary Clinton ascends the royal throne of power acquired for her by the brave soldiers in blue so long ago.
If the northern states hadn't wallowed in the slop of slavery also, the ringing platitudes of their descendants villifying those "horrible slave holding southerners" would not ring so hollow. If the slavery supporting remarks of Lincoln hadn't been so very clear in their intent, his alleged crusade against slavery would hold more water as THE cause of that war.
Whenever I have any doubt about much of anything, I have learned to follow the money and cause and effect is usually then pretty well explained.
Who has said that the North's intentions were pure or that they were non-racist other than Confederate sympathizers looking for a strawman?