"A new and mighty world force for much evil might have arisen, like a dreaded phoenix, from the debris -- a victorious, extremely flawed Confederate States of America!!! (If it, too, didn't fly apart under the very principle of disunion it had just won)"

Wow, its a good thing our Southern ancestors didn't believe this in 1776 or we would still be paying that tea tax...or the Texans in 1836 or they would be playing soccer instead of football... or the American frontiersmen in 1812-1815 seceding from Spain along the Gulf of Mexico.