Anthony here. I saw a songbook the other day put out by traditional Catholics. The image under "Patriotic Songs" was Robert E. Lee. "Dixie" was included in that section, but "Battle Hymn of the Republic" was not.
Did you know?
Pius IX, despite repeated requests to formally recognize the Confederacy, deliberately withheld recognition because “as much as he deprecated the War and desired that it might cease, he could never, as a Christian and the head of the Catholic Church, lend any sanction of countenance, to the system of African Slavery."
[Rufus King to William Seward No. 25, in United States Ministers to the Papal States: Instructions and Despatches, 1848-1868, vol. 1 of American Catholic Historical Association Documents, ed. Leo Francis Stock (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University Press, 1933), 321]
Did you know?
The widespread idea that Pius IX recognized the Confederacy comes from a polite letter he wrote in response to one sent to him by Jefferson Davis, expressing a wish for peace. It was northern protestants who claimed this letter as being a sign of formal recognition, both during and after the war, because they wanted to discredit the Church. According to the Confederate Secretary of State Judah P. Benjamin, the fact that the pope spoke in his lettter of the war as an “intestine” war rather than a war between two distinct nations showed that he did not think of the Confederacy as a separate nation. Benjamin wrote, “This phrase of his letter shows that his address to the President as ‘President of the Confederate States’ is a formula of politeness to his correspondent, not a political recognition of fact.”
[Judah P. Benjamin to A. Dudley Mann No. 11, in Messages and Papers of Jefferson Davis and the Confederacy, 1861-1865, ed. James D. Richardson (New York: Chelsea House — Robert Hector Publishers, 1966), 622.]
Did you know?
The Civil War was fought over states’ rights . . . specifically the right of the states to have slaves. Here, for instance, is a quote from The Declaration of Causes of Texas — i.e. the justification for why Texas seceded:
“In all the non-slave-holding States, in violation of that good faith and comity which should exist between entirely distinct nations, the people have formed themselves into a great sectional party, now strong enough in numbers to control the affairs of each of those States, based upon an unnatural feeling of hostility to these Southern States and their beneficent and patriarchal system of African Slavery, proclaiming the debasing doctrine of equality of all men, irrespective of race or color — a doctrine at war with nature, in opposition to the experience of mankind, and in violation of the plainest revelations of Divine Law. They demand the abolition of negro slavery throughout the Confederacy, the recognition of political equality between the white and negro races, and avow their determination to press on their crusade against us, so long as a negro slave remains in these States.”
[“A declaration of the causes which impel the State of Texas to secede from the Federal Union,” Feb. 2, 1861, in Journal of the Secession Convention of Texas 1861, Edited From the Original in the Department of State, Ernest William Winkler. (Austin: Texas Library and Historical Commission, 1912), 61-65.]
Let's please stop buying into the propaganda that South was the Catholic, or even correct, side in that war.
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“The ‘lost cause’ is not lost liberty and right of self-government. What is lost is slavery of men and supremacy of states. . . . These monuments are not to commemorate the dead alone. Death was but the divine acceptance of life freely offered by everyone. Service was the central fact. . . . [T]his is the mystery of Christ, — to give life's best for such high sake that it shall be found again unto life eternal.”
[Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, in Primomo, John W. The Appomattox Generals. (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company Inc, Publishers, 2013), 186-187]
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