That doesn’t dispute what Lurking Libertarian said.
This does.......
Colonel Richard Henry Lee, of Virginia:
“Twenty eight years have passed since the close of our civil war. Time,
I trust has healed the wounds of war, but with the revolving years the causes
and events of that terrible struggle seem to be forgotten, or if not
forgotten, considered as unimportant events of history. And even the history
of those events, and the causes that led to that struggle, are not set forth
fairly and truthfully. It is stated in books and papers that Southern
children read and study that all the blood-shedding and destruction of
property of that conflict was because the South rebelled without cause
against the best government the world ever saw; that although Southern
soldiers were heroes in the field, skillfully massed and led, they and their
leaders were rebels and traitors who fought to overthrow the Union, and to
preserve human slavery, and that their defeat was necessary for free
government and the welfare of the human family.
As a Confederate soldier and as a citizen of Virginia, I deny the
charge, and denounce it as a calumny. We were not rebels; we did not fight to
perpetuate human slavery, but for our rights and privileges under
government established over us by our fathers and in defense of our homes.”
“Every man should endeavor to understand the meaning of subjugation before it is too late... It means the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern schoolteachers; will learn from Northern school books their version of the war; will be impressed by the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors, and our maimed veterans as fit objects for derision... It is said slavery is all we are fighting for, and if we give it up we give up all. Even if this were true, which we deny, slavery is not all our enemies are fighting for. It is merely the pretense to establish sectional superiority and a more centralized form of government, and to deprive us of our rights and liberties.”
Maj. General Patrick R. Cleburne
Northern Prospective - By King Lincoln Himself
“I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races – that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the Negro should be denied everything.”
“My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause.”
—12 United States Statutes at Large, 36th Congress, 2nd Session, 1861, p. 251.
How true - it was.......
“As for the South, it is enough to say that perhaps eighty per cent. of her armies were neither slave-holders, nor had the remotest interest in the institution. No other proof, however, is needed than the undeniable fact that at any period of the war from its beginning to near its close the South could have saved slavery by simply laying down its arms and returning to the Union.”
Major General John B. Gordon
The hidden message behind Lurking Libertarian's post was that the South was and is a racist area that only cares about owning and abusing black people with the implication that the pious yankee was/is the black mans saviour and benefactor, which, by the way, couldn't be further from the truth.
Idabilly posted an example of how most yankees felt/feel about blacks by posting the Great Emancipator's own racist words.