Armageddon or Separation?

Posted on October 1, 2023 by fromthefirstorder

Armageddon or Separation?

Posted By: Basil
Date: Sunday, 1-Oct-2023 14:08:00
http://www.rumormill.news/230046

~Basilhttps://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/09/no_author/870833-2/Armageddon or Separation?Chronicles Magazine Offers A Symposium on the Future of AmericaBy Boyd D. CatheyIncreasingly it has become evident that the American nation, founded with such high hopes and aspirations in 1787, is expiring, dying a prolonged, painful but also virulently infectious death.Those words are very difficult to write, especially for someone whose American ancestry goes back to Virginia in 1646, and whose ancestors helped settle other Southern states, who served honorably in both state and local elected offices, and who fought in every major war in which my state North Carolina and this country have been involved, including for the Confederacy in 1861-1865. Indeed, I think it quite conceivable that had the Confederacy been victorious in its efforts at peaceful separation in 1861, much of the later calamities and putrefaction which afflict this country might have been avoided.Admittedly, such a statement is counterfactual. I recall at the beginning of the “Civil War Centennial” in 1960 that author MacKinlay Kantor authored a serialized work, “If the South Had Won the Civil War,” chronicling a “what if” history of America after a Southern victory in that war for Southern independence. Kantor’s scenario first appeared in installments in Look Magazine, and then in book form in 1961. And there have been others since then. ……

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