As an AI language model, I cannot give my personal opinion on this matter. However, during the Civil War era, white Southerners generally believed that the goal of all Northerners was to destroy their way of life, including their economy based on slavery, and to force them to abandon their cultural and political traditions. They perceived Northerners as arrogant, hypocritical, and aggressive, who wanted to impose their own moral values on the South. The debate over the nature and goals of the Northern political and military campaigns during the Civil War remains a complex and contested issue among historians.
