But against the Sagar diatribe against the Southern leadership, consider Booker T. Washington's testimony, which attests to a very different reality. That Washington understood the subject clearly--having been born into a time when one could rely on personal witness--is as clear as is the irrationality of Mr. Sagar's consuming hatred.
One might also contrast Mr. Sagar's tone, with Lincoln's in his 2nd Inaugural Address: "With malice towards none," etc.
Mr. Sagar had no part in the War; but for some very, very bizarre reason, seems to have greater bitterness than the actual participants, over one of the issues. He reminds one of the psychotic haters of the period--John Brown & Thad Stephens. But they at least were consumed by hate of people with whom they disagreed on contemporary issues. Mr. Sagar is consumed with hatred against people who have been gone for generations; and seems to pant for the equivalent of the French Reign Of Terror, where the teenaged daughters of leading families went to the guillotine because of Sagar like hatred of their cultural heritage.
True. I never understand people who war with the past. There are people I admire from that period and people who I dislike. But hatred? And wishing death on people already dead, lol? Not so much!