nuetral point of view are you kidding alexander stephens didn't speak for the confederacy at large none of the causes of the war listed explains why the common southern man risked it all for the confederacy white supremacy was far from being a southern trait it was world wide at the time these historians are ill informed at best biased at worst there is little in the historical record with which one can glorify lincoln i don't know why people still insist on doing it demonizing the south is not only unjust it's intellectually dishonest the north was no better and in many areas of race relations quite worse and still are where are historians such as charles beard where are the foreign accounts of the causes which are the only ones that can be considered objective