With all the available info on this thread, I conclude that the indifference displayed by SOME of the southerners towards black folks was equaled or surpassed by SOME of the northerners when invading the south.
Shows that people are just people, I guess, and that politicians are, well, politicians.
But frankly, for anyone to express, multiple times, that they would have fought for the union to eradicate slavery, without acknowledging that not all the people being killed believed in the institution, nor that their respective reasons for fighting were anything other than a states rights issue, is very telling.
Maybe that's why the south is pigeon-holed as one big slave owning pit of Hellbent [bleep]. It makes the warmonging pallatable.
