[WhiskeyPapa]

Yes, the South was violating the rights of African-Americans and deserved to be punished.

As you know, President Lincoln suggested in his second inaugural that if the guilt lay on the whole people, north and south, and if the war was the result, that no man could say the judgments of the Lord were not righteous altogether.

Walt

[republicanwizard]

Yes, the North was responsible for letting evil pester for over 50 years and deserved the tremendous sacrifice made to remove the evil.