“Had they done it right they likely would have permitted.”
Huh?
The United States as a nation was more than a magazine subscription that you could drop at the slightest whim. There were commitments and shared responsibilities.
Never-mind that the “oppression” that the south claimed never rose to the point of legitimate protest, there was a right way to secede and then there was the way the south went about it.
They initiated the problem, they provoked a war, and then they suffered the consequences. I do wonder how things might have turned out had they gone about their secession honorably and legally.
My guess is that they would have been consumed by the Brits.