[Drennan Whyte]

If you are interested in what the southerners themselves said I encourage you to look into a greater sample on the subject.

"Mississippi is firmly convinced that there is but one alternative:

This new union with Lincoln Black Republicans and free negroes, without slavery, or, slavery under our old constitutional bond of union, without Lincoln Black Republicans, or free negroes either, to molest us.

If we take the former, then submission to negro equality is our fate. if the latter, then secession is inevitable --- each State for itself and by itself, but with a view to the immediate formation of a Southern Confederacy, under our present Constitution, by such of the slave-holding States as shall agree in their conventions to unite with us." - William L. Harris, December 17, 1860

Mr. Harris was appointed a comissioner to the State of Georgia by Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus. In this capacity he delivered an address to the Georgia General Assembly on the need and reasons for secession.

[dtel]

It is very easy, convenient and dishonest to apply our idea of race relations on our forefathers.
They were raised in a different time with different values.
Most of the posters on this forum would not have lived to the age of 16 in either the north or south because of their outspoken opinions and wise mouths.
Plugged dead. Myself probably included.
The northerns cared no more for the negro than the southron they were both scared of turning them loose in society, plain and simple.
Were their fears unfounded, I do not know.
I have no problem with the black man, the white man or the brown man, as long as they are honest and not full of sh*t.