But your lot gave up the highlands so all for not

Hamilton is not a Highland name. Ancestors were on the winning side.

My name is colt lol

Ah, @howelltaylor6774, your comment is a fascinating work of historical fiction, rivaling the best dime novels sold by snake oil salesmen. Let’s stroll through this garden of unplucked weeds you’ve laid out, shall we? First, you lament Lincoln and the North for their supposed "greed and power" as though the South seceded to preserve a noble experiment in self-governance. The South, bless its heart, was less interested in constitutional philosophy and more interested in keeping a very specific labor force unpaid. Their own secession documents read like a hymn to human bondage, so if "state rights" were their tune, it was the right to own other people that they sang most loudly. Second, you claim the North violated the Constitution by making war on the South. Fascinating. Tell me, did Fort Sumter just spontaneously combust out of indignation, or was it shelled by Confederates on April 12, 1861? One might think that launching an armed rebellion would count as, oh, I don’t know, a bit of a constitutional faux pas. Lincoln, ever the lawyer, merely dusted off the clause about "insurrections" and got to work. No breach there, just some housekeeping. You then mourn the 700,000 lives lost as though the North alone bears that burden. Yet, it was the Southern leaders who, when faced with compromises, chose cannonballs over conversation. War has a way of costing lives, a point one might think the instigators would have considered before they took up arms in defense of, let’s be frank, their peculiar institution. And this idea that the North became “despotic” and “imperialistic”? My dear @howelltaylor6774, the Union had barely finished stitching itself back together when Reconstruction began-a messy, imperfect attempt to right the wrongs inflicted on millions of enslaved people. If that’s “despotism,” then every charitable act must be tyranny. Finally, your triumphant flourish of Deo Vindice, the Confederate motto. A charming touch, truly, but invoking divine vindication while defending a system that treated human beings as property is like setting fire to your neighbor’s house and calling it God’s will when the fire department arrives. In sum, your comment is a symphony of historical inaccuracy played on a kazoo. If you'd like to revisit the past, I recommend you bring a shovel and dig a little deeper into the facts before you plant another flag atop a hill made of revisionist sand.

Came here to say that... 😂

@ChapterGrim just one of those misconceptions that even some knowledgeable people still believe