They thought they were doing something for the benefit of the Southern society at the time.What could be wrong with killing what was supossedly damaging the white society.The murder was committed as an act of cleansing, that is why they considered themselves heroes.Some Southeners believed that there were evil intentions in the Black, they thought of them as impure and revengeful they did not belong to the world of the free white Americans.
Athens & Sparta are governments
