Review on "God and the Old South" by Joe Morecraft

By Peter Discher

Age 15

The cause of the War Between the States was that the Country was torn apart by two different Religions. The North was predominately a Unitarian region.

“Unitarianism is a reaction against Calvinism, it hates Calvinism, and any thing Calvinism produces such as the Constitution of the United States of America.” Joe Morecraft III.

The South was a Biblical, largely Reformed, Orthodox Christian Nation. Until 1830 on, the South was for the most part Christian. The War Between the States was not a Civil War. A Civil War is where there is a faction within the Country who is trying to over throw the government. The South had seceded from the North; therefore, the War Between the States was between two different Nations, the Confederates and the Yankees, so it was not a Civil War.

Wendell Phillips insisted, “The Civil War was primarily a social Revolution. The war could only be ended by annihilating the structure of power which formed and ruled the South and created the war, and annihilating a state of society.”

James McPherson said, “Garfield called for confiscation of the land of Confederate planters.” And Garfield went on to say “After their land was confiscated, both the Confederate leaders of this Rebellion must be executed or banished.”