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The political leaders in the Southern States believed that they were fighting the war to defend the rights of their states. They thought that the federal government did not have the right to determine whether slavery was legal in any state.

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In the south during the war Lincoln was regarded as a black-hearted tyrant who was seeking to subjugate them by force, to compel them to remain in the Union of which they no longer wished to be a part. He was regarded as a merciless ogre who had sent his armies into the south to destroy and pillage, and those armies were full of foreign hirelings (numerous Irish were enlisted in the Union Army as soon as they got off the boat; the XI Corps of the Army of the Potomac spoke German). He was called "The Original Ape", "King Abrahamus Africanus", and a "black Republican". Lincoln was not kindly regarded in the south while the war, which was largely seen as caused by his election and waged at his insistence, and which killed more than a quarter of a million southern men out of a white population of around five million, was going on.

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Bad,Because He Stood Up For Black People.

For,Which Southerners Hated.

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They didn't mind.

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