Clyde Wilson's speech, "War, Reconstruction, and the End of the Old Republic," is one of four speeches which is somehow absent from the Mises Institute's official playlist for the "Costs of War" conference, along with Murray Rothbard's "Two Just Wars: 1776 and 1861," Sam Francis' "Classical Republicanism and the Right to Bear Arms," and Thomas Fleming's "Did the South Have to Fight?"
I daresay I know why these speeches in particular are absent from an otherwise complete playlist: th-cam.com/video/_5Lgg5vP-4k/w-d-xo.html&pp=iAQB
I was too young to attend or even be aware of this conference, held in May of 1994 at Atlanta, but when I became involved with the 2008 Ron Paul Campaign and began reading LRC.com daily, I eventually encountered John V. Denson's edition of "The Costs of War: America's Pyrrhic Victories," which republished all of the papers that had been presented there. That book, along with Mr. Denson's edition of "Reassessing the Presidency" (LvMI's March 1998 conference in Callaway Gardens) and David Gordon's edition of "Secession, State, and Liberty" (LvMI's April 1995 conference in Charleston) were political epiphanies for me. Thenceforth, I've remained steadfastly pro-secession and anti-war.
I'm sharing these four speeches on TH-cam, because even though they remain available on Mises.org, there only those who are actively looking for them will find them, whereas here they may be found by someone like me 16 years ago. I knew that they were important then, and now they are more relevant than ever, if not downright urgent. Indeed, it is manifest why our regime is so zealously removing the symbols of American history, irrespective of the will of the people or even the rule of law, for what those great symbols represent is a standing rebuke to its own corruption, criminality, and, to be candid, cretinousness.
The "Costs of War" poster is copied from Mises.org. The headshot of Clyde Wilson is copied from the of the SPLC (Soviet Poverty Lie Center), which in December of 2004 included it in a disgust-inducing and defamatory "Intelligence Report" on him and other scholars associated with the Abbeville Institute and the League of the South.