If hatred had triumphed over magnanimity and a desire for reconciliation, our history would have been so much darker. A lesson for the present generation.
The Ending of Our War Without an Enemy
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Amen. Even Jeff Davis in his later years exhorted Southerners to be good American citizens.
It took much longer to fulfill the promise of full Americanhood to freedmen and their descendants, but it happened. Too late, but not too little.
In the meantime, we were spared being a continental Ulster. Thanks be to God.
Perhaps the reason the South was chosen to lose is because they would do so with a grace the North would not rise to, had the fortunes of war gone the other way.
Our best men play checkers, tolerably well. God plays 8D chess. We don’t even understand the board!
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Well, the South did fight for an institution that much of the rest of the civilized world considered an abomination of humanity. The South paid a heavy price for the war. Much of the South was in ruins and the South was depressed economically for generations. Fortunately a gurrella war was avoided. If it had not then all of the South would have been destroyed.
The North was destined to win or to quit. The North was not going to lose.
The wisdom of Grant, and Lee, is lost on the modern Left who rejects God and His laws for their own silly isms.