Lincoln is the greatest friend the South ever had. Not only did he free those southerners who were slaves, but he liberated the region from the domination of a backward and selfish elite. My only faults with Lincoln was he was too magnanimous in his plans for Reconstruction and his selection of Democrat Johnson as his running mate. The old slaveowning interest that foolishly and selfishly led Dixie into rebellion should have been treated much harsher than either Lincoln or Johnson wished.
"Lincoln is the greatest friend the South ever had. Not only did he free those southerners who were slaves, but he liberated the region from the domination of a backward and selfish elite. My only faults with Lincoln was he was too magnanimous in his plans for Reconstruction and his selection of Democrat Johnson as his running mate. The old slaveowning interest that foolishly and selfishly led Dixie into rebellion should have been treated much harsher than either Lincoln or Johnson wished."
If the forced labour based Cotton Inc's elite were forced to pay the price for inciting full scale insurrection things would have turned out for the better during as well as after Reconstruction.
Since the well healed 'Slavery Empire' ringleaders no longer wished to be loyal United States citizens, all of them should have their U.S. citizenship revoked, all their wealth transfered to those they abused on their 'plantations', and then they should have been swiftly deported, as soon as each one was captured.
Any nation's government granting these disgraced deportees entrance would never tolerate this element fomenting armed rebellion as they did in America.