“It seems easy and mentally satisfying to project current issues back into the 1860s, but under examination, the behavior of the reb regime does not measure up to the noble principles that many today wish to attribute to it.”
The same can be said for the Lincoln regime.
WHatever mistakes Lincoln made, I’d much rather be a Copperhead in the North than a Unionist in the South. Being a Lincolnite in the South was a very dangerous thing.