By Chevalier
Most of the people today have an unbiased hatred aganist the confederacy, mostly because of the post-war propaganda of the union of the north, but, we catholics should not have those hatred and bad links with the confederate cause, and i will show why:
4 - The Southern States fought for a ruralist traditional lifestyle.
The rural South had a lot of advantages over the Industrial North if we think about lifestyle. The slow, calm, aristocratic, rural-based lifestyle of the southern people was a lifestyle that reflect the ideas of life that the Church always defended. I know, some will talk 'but slavery is bad" yes it is, it is not a good thing (not a bad one though) and the Pope said it cant come back, but the main reason of the southern lifestyle was a nice catholic one was not the slavery, but the ruralism of it, the contact with the land, with the production, the owning of the production means.
This mindset was too deeply rooted in Christian values, even thought protestant, and those values where frontally aganist the northern liberal values, who was a Liberal mindset.
And, even if we look at the southern slaves, we see that their treatment was in general better than the northern industrialist gave to their "free" proletariate, who received a starvation wage for a worker harder than the black slaves had in the south.
And they fought aganist this liberal northern industrial culture, industry by itself is not bad, but the northern industry came with banking, exploration, and the liberal "profit is our god" mindset, who was aganist the southern views of life.
Another point was that the southern people valued the chivalry, customs, to be caring and hospitable.
3- The Influence of the Catholic Church was bigger in the South than in the North
I know this is Strange, but, even that the North had a bigger catholic population, the southern people had more influence by the church, why? because the church was present in the aristocracy, for example, some of the confederate high military officials were catholic, like Admiral Raphael Semmes, General P.G.T Beauregard, and, when we see about the famous General Robert E. Lee, himself, even not being catholic, he was Episcopalian, had a Portrait of Pope Pius IX in his living room till the end of his days.
And President Jefferson Davis was a friend of the Pope, and was treated by catholics sisters in the end of his days, received a Crown of Thorns made by the Pope himself, and a portrait signed by the pope.
So with that info we can see that the Catholic Church had a lot of influence in the Confederacy, even thought the confederates was mostly protestant.
Admiral Semmes make some remarks about, as we can see here:
"[Raphael] Semmes's hostility toward Yankees was based in history and religion. He associated Catholicism with liberty and virtue, Puritanism with narrow intolerance. For Semmes the Civil War was a holy war, and he often took special pleasure in burning New England-based ships. When the Alabama's boarding officer brought a number of religious tracts from the Dunkirk, Semmes examined them closely. They had been shipped for distribution in Catholic Portugal, even though, as one tract noted, dissemination of such material was illegal. Semmes viewed the tracts as one more example of Yankee/Protestant duplicity." (Taylor, Confederate Raider Raphael Semmes of the Alabama, p. 123).
So we see that it was an puritan protestant yankee interest the southern defeat, for more about it, read this article: http://ridingaraid.blogspot.com.br/2012/10/catholicism-and-old-south.html
2 - The war of Northern Agression was a counter-revolutionary war.
We as catholics had always fought the war aganist the revolution, the process of revolution aganist the Church is well explained by Plínio Corrêa the Oliveira in his book "Revolution and Counter Revolution", i recommend reading that to know better the mechanism of revolution.
But, why the civil war was counter revolutionary war? because, as i said before, they fought for traditional values aganist a liberal modernist force, trying to keep their life ways, their values, their faith.
And, as even to make more proof of it, a lot of Carlist spanish volunteers fought for the confederates, seeing in that a counter-revolutionary war defending similar values as the ones they fought for in the carlist wars.
The Union tried to destroy this values in the war and in the reconstruction, and it went bad for the Southern people, as we see today, they lost the Episcopalian majority to more puritan Baptist ones, and they had gone some way far from their heritage, not all, we have a lot's of real confederates still fighting for their rights, culture, values and faith until today.
For more about the Carlists, you can read there, with a video included http://catholicism.org/the-carlists-in-america.html
1 - Pope Pius IX supported the confederacy.
Blessed Pope Pius IX was the pope in the time of the Civil war, and he personally defended the rights of independence of the southern confederacy.
There are many possible reasons why this pontiff would be sympathetic to the CSA and her president, but the most likely one was that Pope Pius IX recognized in the traditional Christian culture of the South, a mindset opposed to the advance of liberal Modernism.
As said before, he was friend of Jefferson Davis, and had a lot of influence over him, and adressed to him in a official letter as "President of the Confederate States of America" technically recognizing the cause and the independence the confederacy.
And as said before, he give a crown of thorns made by his own hands to the Confederate president, as a gift for the martyrdom of the confederate cause.
And the pope stood as a popular figure after the war, Robert E. Lee had a portrait of the pope in his house and refered the pope as "the south only friend in time of need"
you can read more about that in this link: http://catholicknight.blogspot.com.br/2009/02/pope-pius-ix-and-confederacy.html
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