Ranking of U.S. Presidents by historians

Originally Posted by August

That is caused by rabble rousers on both sides. Take the stuff you just wrote for example. That evil Yankee Despoiler theme remains quite popular among certain segments of the south even today, mostly those who want to redirect attention away from the fact that their oh so pure southern ancestors bought and sold human beings like cattle and it took a huge and bloody civil war to get them to stop it.

I wrote nothing about evil yankees in my post. Re-read it and point it out. I'm not attacking the north but I am attacking the popular mistruths that originated from the north after the civil war was won.

Fact is August - northerners bought and sold human beings as well. As a matter of fact, it was done more in the north than it was in the south. The US Constitution even claimed that slaves were property of their owners and explained what to do about runaways. This is the same Constitution that many northern presidents used as a power basis and made no qualms about it while they were in power. You try to blame Southerners for practicing what was considered law of the time and paint them with the same vile brush as being all the same. Paint your northern brethren with that same brush while you're at it. They were just as guilty for slavery if not more so. Just because they won the war, doesn't give them the right to vilify their foe with falsifications and push the entire blame of slavery on them to boot. That's just appalling!