THE FOUNDERS WOULD NOT RECOGNIZE THE REPUBLIC THAT WAS LEFT AFTER THE WAR...

" ... It will be a glorious day for our country when all the children within its borders shall learn that the four years of fratricidal war between the North and South was waged by neither with criminal or unworthy intent, but by both to protect what they conceived to be threatened rights and imperiled liberty:

that the issues which divided the sections were born when the Republic was born, and were forever buried in an ocean of fraternal blood." General Gordon