The Yankees were taking property that belonged to Southerners and giving it to blacks. They also appointed blacks to positions of authority such as law enforcement and encouraged them to brutalize Southerners.
...and this justifies rounding up innocent blacks and killing and lynching them, denying them their right to vote, to hold office, to their property, to be left to enjoy their lives, and their right not to treated like a second class citizen for the next 100-odd years? I see.
They also appointed blacks to positions of authority such as law enforcement and encouraged them to brutalize Southerners.
Oh, the horror of the dew of Southern whiteness being subject to the terror of blacks in authority. I forgot that the history of the South since the Civil War was a history of blacks rampaging through the countryside, taking innocent whites and hanging them from trees and lighting them afire...
Frankly, given the history of race relations in America prior to the end of the war, Southern whites should have been on their knees and been thankful that there was not a massacre of whites as there had been in Haiti. Was it not Jefferson, reflecting on this possibility and the truth of the treatment of American black, who stated, "Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just."