Here you are wrong and are letting your own petty provincialism color your otherwise factual assessments.
The planter aristocracy initiated hostilities. The "rabble" as you put it only involved themselves after northern states raised armies and, in their perception, invaded and threatened their homes and families.
I know both sides very well, planters and "rabble," have them both in my ancestry. You have it precisely backwards. Maybe you merely intended to slur all southerners or something, if so, ho-hum, nothing new or original there.
I'm giving you the benefit of a doubt. At least you know the Emancipation Proclamation was a military document intended to raise a slave rebellion in Confederate states only, as it did not deign to free them elsewhere.
The rabble I refer to are the stinking southern aristocracy, not the poor folk who were the cannon fodder that they employed to try and defend their evil empire. Apparently the leaders were people without a conscience, without a sense of justice that would admit them as Americans supporting of the founding documents, traitors. All should have been hung, along with their spoiled families, and except for the God fearing graciousness of the northerners and in particular, Lincoln, would have been.