Enlightenment principles called for freedom of thoughts,individualism, liberty, skepticism and reason,especially skepticism to traditional religious views.
The period after the ww1 broke out, saw an increased wave of revolutions,across the century, agitating for freedom and liberty, as well as the fall of collectivization or communism to the rise of capitalism, and increased secularization of society. enlightenment thoughts were therefore highly successful. <span />
Based on the fact that Charleston Mercury was a southern sympathizer, the editor most likely chooses the name "War of Southern Independence" for the US Civil War.
