No, you're supposed to be impressed by the lack of ethnic malice evinced by the Confederates who elevated him to a public trust that he could have occupied in no country of contemporary Europe save Britain.
That includes many of the Northern States, methinks, where white-shoe antisemitism burst fully into the open five or ten years after the Civil War, when Jews were suddenly excluded from the summer watering-holes of the well-to-do in upstate New York.
Be impressed by that.
I'm not adverse to that point. I think the ethnic malice of the CSA is overrated. I don’t even think there was that great of a malice towards the slaves while they were still slaves. The lust for power and wealth and the disregard for all others is the rebs’ great fault in my eyes. The reb power structure exhibited a loathsome hypocrisy that cried to the heavens about small injuries received while inflicting large injuries to others as part of their normal practice.
The malice of the CSA mindset was not ethnic but rather the malice shown by a spoiled brat toward anybody getting in the way of the instant and complete satisfaction of all his whims.