While abolitionist sentiment, having created the Republican Party of Abraham Lincoln and hastened the demise of the old Whig Party, is now reflected in popular Northern thought, many white Northerners remain opposed to official government efforts to put an end to African slavery. Lincoln’s reluctance to issue a formal emancipation proclamation evidences this reality. Nonetheless,…
The North Carolina port town of Wilmington, a quiet community of some 10,000 persons on the eve of the war, has been transformed into a center of “profiteering and money-laundering” that is a magnet for speculators, “rogues and desperadoes,” “crooks, confidence men, and prostitutes.” Many residents have fled from their homes to safer and more…
While white Southerners carry on about the sins and evilness of the North, the Confederacy, albeit God’s chosen nation in the minds of many, is not without fault. An article in a Southern Baptist newspaper this week offers an analysis of the shortcomings of the South. Everybody is crying out against extortion, and every one…