Same as that portion of the population that enjoyed freedom in the North where they also kept men in bondage for their profit. Just not as many.
The North did not start a war to defend their ability to keep people in bondage. The South did.
You can't get credit for a moral accomplishment when "freeing the slaves" was not a goal of the war until nearly two years into it.
I never suggested that it was.
And even then it wasn't because they cared about the slaves, it was because they wanted revenge against the South for having fought them so hard.
It was because the South started the war, so their only option was to fight or surrender.
A rare admission of the Truth. Stop fighting us and send us that Slave profit money, and we will let you alone. Try to be Independent, and we will destroy everything.
You forget that Sherman was speaking of the past. In 1864 the Emancipation Proclamation had been issued so he was right, all the powers on Earth couldn't restore their slaves.
But Sherman also pointed out, "War is the remedy our enemy's have chosen. They dared us to war, and you remember how tauntingly they defied us to the contest. We have accepted the issue and it must be fought out. You might as well reason with a thunderstorm. I say let us give them all they want; not a word of argument, not a sign of let up, no cave in till we are whipped or they are."
Well, the Union wasn't whipped.