Worth while read...get started. ;>)
In Vol. III of the Random House nine volume set, Foote providez direct quotations of rabid northerners intent to annihilate the south.
A Massachusetts Colonel wrote, “...Do we fight to avenge...insult? No! The thing we seek is permanent dominion. And what instance is there of permanent dominion without changing, revolutionizing, absorbing, the institutions, life and manners of the conquered peoples?...
They think we mean to take their Slaves. Bah! We must take their ports, their mines, their water power, the very soil they plough, and develope them by the hands of our artisan armies...
We are to be a regenerating, colonizing power, or we are to be whipped. Schoolmasters, with howitzers, must instruct our Southern brethren that they are a set of damned fools in everything that relates to...modern civilization...This army must not come back. Settlement, migration must put the seal on battle, or we gain nothing.”
Elisions are those of the author, not mine.
Some things never change!
And they’ve never quit..,.
Same folks different party labels