Who is in league with Beelzebub now?

Here is a description from an Englishman of the character of a Yankee at the time of the Civil War, 1861: “The narrow, fanatical, and originally sincere Puritanism of their ancestors has, in the course of six generations, degenerated into that amalgam of hypocrisy, cruelty, falsehood, unconsciousness of the faintest sentiment of self-respect, coarseness of self-assertion, insensibility to the opinions of others, utter callousness to right, barbarous delight in wrong, and thoroughly moral ruffianism, which is now fully revealed to the world as the genuine Yankee nature.”

Not to be outdone, an English magazine commented about the North in “league itself with Beelzebub” and about Abraham Lincoln after his Emancipation Proclamation who …”seeks to paralyze the victorious armies of the South by letting loose upon their hearths and homes the lust and savagery of four million Negroes.”

Even Confederate sailors raiding on the seas at this time mounted a mock tombstone after Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation reading: “In Memory of Abraham Lincoln, President of the Late United States, who died of nigger on the brain. 1st January, 1863.

Are we not lucky that we have moved past racial and political hyperbole? Or have we just substituted masterful prestidigitation by our Commander in Chief? Recently he mandated that Catholic organizations must provide contraception. Today he mandates that Catholic organizations are except from providing contraception but their insurance plans must provide contraception. This is the same mandate portrayed as an exception and reconsideration to ameliorate moral concerns.

Who is in league with Beelzebub now?