What about dissent in the South?

Southern men who didn't want to fight for slavery?

Or so that others could own slaves?

Reading Copperhead.

Update, 073113, 2013 hrs EDT.

Finished.

Not a novel of ideas,  this novella portrays abolitionists as violent, lawless fanatics and Abner Beech, the Copperhead of the title, as a former pillar of the community ostracized and persecuted for convictions we are told he has, though he voices them only by occasionally damning Lincoln and his supporters as  "nigger worshippers."

We are told that in church,  at least once,  he quoted scripture either to defend slavery or to show the Bible doesn't unequivocally condemn it - the presentation is ambiguous.

Unimpressive as literature,  it's not much as propaganda,  either - though it is that and not much else.