“The nineteenth century was the century for revolutions, even if we allow for the French Revolution in the last decade of the eighteenth century and the Russian Revolution in the first decades of the twentieth. The War Between the States was our participation in those widespread global upheavals. The Revolution, generically considered, is an enemy of the Christian faith, and it is an enemy that has not gone away. The effect and the influence of it surround us daily. Although some of the new currents were involved in it, the American War for Independence was fundamentally a conservative movement in defense of the old order. The Civil War was not; that conflagration transformed our nation in much the same way that the French Revolution transformed France” (Black and Tan, p. 19).
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