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No. Those powers are not left with the states. The only real meaning of the 10th amendment is that it left police powers over internal state affairs with those states. Powers such as public health regulation, courts of laws and the rights to determine who practice there, law enforcement officers etc.

Since the constitution guarantees the states a republican government a state would not be ejected but its government changed to a republican one.

Actually the true essence of the Civil War was the establishment of true republican governments where there was a Slaveocracy, a tyranny established without the consent of 80-90% of the population. When the North forced the South to allow Blacks to vote it had to change the rules of sufferage in the North as well. Ironically, the war forced both sections against their wills and intentions to make the electorate more representative.

Is it really that difficult to understand the plain language of the 10th amendment? The amendment reads: "The powers not delegated to the United Staes by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

That is very plain English, son. It says plainly that powers not delegated to the federal government nor prohibited to the states are all reserved state powers. That clearly means everything not specifically delegated. Your version is that everything is a federal power unless specifically reserved to the states.

Given the level of your ability to understand the language used in an agreement, any contracting I do with you will require total payment in advance.