There are many different points and views that each side of the Civil War had on the war. There were many things that the Union and the Confederacy disagreed with and agreed with. Two things they disagreed on are how the Civil War started and the main reason for this war, slavery. One thing they agreed on is the Emancipation Proclamation that Lincoln issued in 1863. Both sides of the Civil War have different views as to how the War started. The South, for example, believes that they never affected or aggressed the North in any way and blamed the North for starting the war when they just wanted to be left alone. To support my statement, the newspaper, “New Orleans Daily Crescent”, documented that, “We have never aggressed upon the North...” and, “...we have only asked to be let alone...”. While the North on the other hand, believes that slavery in the South is wrong and that it’s a sin; they believe it must be stopped. Union Sergeant Phineas Hager wrote in a letter saying, “...the more I learn of the cursed institution of Slavery, the more I feel willing to endure, for its final destruction.”. The Union side of the war believes that slavery is “cursed”, or in other words, it’s bad. Phineas Hager also says that “abolishing slavery will dignify labor; that fact of itself of itself will revolutionize everything.” …show more content…
The South didn’t think slavery was bad and continued to practice it while the North thought it was a sin and wrong. In Document 7 it said, “Then the Northern people began to preach, to lecture, and to write about the sin of slavery...” and in the “Cartoon from Harper’s Weekly” it also showed how the person on the tree is the South and the tree is supposed to represent how the South grew from slavery. Meaning, they support