You may be right. It is also irrelevant.
We righteously destroyed the slave South for its crimes against humanity, at a very high price to everyone involved, north included.
We righteously destroyed the slave South for its crimes against humanity, at a very high price to everyone involved, north included.
Oh, so the North went to war to end slavery? That might make some sense had all states loyal to the Union abolished slavery before illegally invading the South. There was nothing righteous about Lincoln's war.