A question I end up asking myself is…

How soon would the Southern Government have become just like the oppressive Washington Government?

Southern folk chaffed against the Confederate Conscription Act. Seems to me that was a BIG step in becoming “centralized”. Gov. Vance fought the Davis Government when they tried to control the supply depots, and Mill’s that were in North Carolina. (Read Confederate Industry: Manufactures and Quartermasters in the Civil War)

The temptation was always there for the Davis Government to try to control the individual States populations, resources, and supplies.

Kevin Dally