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Originally Posted by Al Swearengen
Agreed! But my statements are also relevant to this thread, and I stand by them. There is no denying the fact that had the south prevailed, the modern Confederacy we would be enjoying would offer far greater personal freedom and a much easier "pursuit of happiness" to the individual American than this bloated monstrosity of a Union. It was about state's rights then, its about state's rights now.
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So how would this utopia have developed in the Confederate states, a people who were more concerned with slavery ending or not ending on their terms rather than the end of slavery and recognizing the dignity of the human person?
The fact is, there were more people against slavery than for it, more democratically elected officials in the legislative and executive branches. The majority population won on an issue that was of great moral consequence.