"The way in which historians describe the War Between the States is by far the worst case of political correctness that I have witnessed in my twenty-six years as a university professor."
--Thomas J. DiLorenzo, professor of economics, Loyola College in Maryland; best-selling author of The Real Lincoln and Lincoln Unmasked
Anytime there is a conflict between two parties, one needs to hear both sides of the story in order to render a just and accurate judgment. Most people in America have heard the North's view of the so called "Civil War", but few have ever given serious consideration to the South's version of the War. Did the South start the War for Southern Independence? Did Lincoln really care about black slaves in the South? Was the War even fought over slavery or was slavery just a pretext? So much of what is taught about the War for Southern Independence in schools and universities is garbage.
The popular view taught today in schools is that the South was hostile and started the War and the North went to war to free the slaves. This view is extremely naive and over simplistic. In history the victors write the history books. The North has written history to favor its cause. The War for Southern Independence was not a civil war at all. Rather, it was a war of Northern aggression against the South. God apparently brought judgment against the South because of chattel slavery, but He used the evil North to accomplish it. The North was by no means the good guys in the War for Southern Independence.
By the time the War erupted, two cultures had emerged. The North was dominated by a humanistic, unitarian, universalist, transcendentalist world view. The North was infuenced by European socialist, communist philosophy that believed a big powerful government could solve all of societies problems by making everyone equal. The South on the other hand was Calvinist Christian. They believed in private property and personal freedom. One can not understand the old South without first understanding Calvinism. The War for Southern Independence was a very religious war. The Unitarian North detested the Calvinistic South and so wanted to utterly destroy it. Lincoln did not care a thing in the world about freeing the slaves. He launched the War of Northern Aggression because he wanted the tariffs from the South. Lincoln believed in a big powerful central government contrary to what many of the Founding Fathers taught. The War for Southern Independence was the turning point from a limited federal government to the big socialistic government we have today.
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