A View of the Yankee People any of this sound familiar today??

A View of the Yankee People
A Confederate officer captured at Gettysburg writing to some friends on
another subject when his mind turned to the Yankees. 

"They believed their manners and customs more enlightened, their intelligence and culture
immeasurably superior. Brim-full of hypocritical cant and puritan ideas, they preach, pray and
whine. The most parsimonious of wretches, they extol charity; the most inveterate blasphemers, they
are the readiest exporters; the worst of dastards, they are the most shameless boasters; the most
selfish of man, they are the most blatant philanthropists; the blackest-hearted hypocrites,
they are religious fanatics. They are agitators and schemers, braggarts and deceivers, swindlers and
extortioners, and yet pretend to Godliness, truth, purity and humanity. The shibboleth of their faith
is, "The union must and shall be preserved", and they hold on to this with all the obstinacy peculiar
to their nature. They say that we are a benighted people, and are trying to pull down that which
God himself built up.  "Many of these bigots express great
astonishment at finding the majority of our men could read and write; they have actually been
educated to regard the Southern people as grossly illiterate, and little better than savages. The whole
nation lives, breathes and prospers in delusions; and their chiefs control the spring of the social and
political machine with masterly hands.  "I could but conclude that the Northern
people were bent upon the destruction of the South. All appeared to deprecate the war, but
were unwilling to listen to a separation of the old union. They justified the acts of usurpation on the
part of their government, and seem submissive to the tyranny of its acts on the plea of military
necessity; they say that the union is better than the Constitution, and bow their necks to the yoke in
the hope of success against us. a great many, I believe, act from honest and conscientious
principles; many from fear and favor; but the large majority entertained a deep-seated hatred, envy
and jealousy towards the Southern people and their institutions.
"They know (yet they pretend not to believe it) that Southern men and women are their
superiors in everything relating to bravery, honesty, virtue and refinement, and they have become more
convinced of this since the present war; consequently, their worst passions have become
aroused, and they give way to frenzy and fanaticism.  "We must not deceive ourselves; they are
bent upon our destruction, and differ mainly in the means of accomplishing this end.
However, much as sections and parties that hate each other, yet, as a whole, they hate us more.
"They are so entirely incongruous to our people that they and their descendants will ever be
our natural enemies."

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