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Re: IF THE US HAD LOST HER CIVIL WAR

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13.But, had the so-called Confederacy prevailed AND endured, a powerful, invincible, aggressive slave empire might have emerged -- to spread, like a cancer, through the remaining, broken States -- perhaps, through Cuba, Mexico, South America, and Canada -- perhaps, through the entire world.

This would involve conflicts with several European countries- Britain, France, Spain, etc. Do you think the Confederates would be prepared for more war?

14.For it was in the essential nature, interests, and thrust of American slavery that it had to expand into lucrative new, unspoiled cotton-lands or risk its death. Lincoln's original, hopefully bloodless, anti-slavery "containment" proposal rested on this assumption -- his later offers to buy and free the slaves, also rebuffed. All efforts for an honorable peace, stubbornly rejected.

The reason the South wanted slavery in the territories was political. Territories become states. States send representatives to Congress. In other words- to maintain a balance in the US Congress. But if the South had gained its independence...there would be no need to maintain a balance in the US Congress. They wouldn't be there.

The North wanted the territories reserved for free white people. No blacks allowed- slave or free.
And everyone knows what happened to the native population.

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