Numerous Southern Baptist opinion shapers are now doing their best to establish love of money as the Confederacy’s national sin. Insisting that a retreat from the evil of greed will allow God to cut short his chastisement of their Christian nation–currently expressed in the surprisingly prolonged nature of their war with the abolitionist North–and effect…
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…