Certainly there was plenty of evil done on all sides. But the pride, arrogance, brutality, hypocrisy etc. on the part of the South was in spite of whatever gentility was there as well.
And the North's brutality, ruthlessness, pride, arrogance etc. was in spite of the good-heartedness toward all men that resided so much there.
We are all flawed critters who, but for the Grace of God, are capable of most any evil imagineable.
THEREFORE, methinks the nose tweaking, trying to wrench blood from the turnip that these threads hostile to Lincoln--well--that they must originate in SOME sort of DEEEEEP SEATED hostility at authority of some sort from some pretty intense childhood experiences. It's difficult for me to explain it to myself any other way. Perhaps there are reasons I haven't come up with yet.